Goofs

After Goodnight is locked in the boot of the car she tells Bond where she is, Bond and Hip go to their car as Scaramanga drives past them, they then discover that the have not got the car keys and Goodnight tells them (on the radio) that she has them in a passage of time lasting many seconds. Bond and Hip then get out of the car to see that the car which Goodnight is in has only moved a couple of feet.

When Nick Nack is at his console watching Scaramanga in his 'Funhouse' he has screens showing different sections of it. When we see the cameras they are all panning constantly from side to side. However, all the shots on Nick Nack's screens are static shots of one angle.

Scaramanga tells Bond that only two live on his island (himself and Nick Nack), but shortly afterwards he points out the technician who runs the power plant, meaning there are actually three full-time residents.

When Bond is chasing Scaramanga through the streets of Bangkok, there is a scene in which they pass a cab driver in a 1955 Plymouth sedan. When the cab driver runs off the road and rolls his car over, it has changed to a 1955 Cheverolet Bel-Air.

When Bond arrives to Scaramanga's island in the Republic RC-3 Seabee amphibious airplane, the left wing float disappears and reappears between shots.

J.W. Pepper identifies himself as "Sheriff J.W. Pepper of the Louisiana State Police". In Louisiana, as in other states, the Sheriff's Department and the State Police are two completely different police forces, and there is no "Sheriff" in the State Police. The Sheriff is an elected official responsible for a parish or county, whereas the State Police are responsible for the entire state.

Absolute zero cannot be "maintained" since it has never been "reached". Even if that were permissible in the movie, it wouldn't require a man's body temperature to raise it, as the temperature of the surrounding air would already have done the trick.

Gold, especially pure gold, is a very soft metal which is damaged easily. It's hard to imagine a worse material to use as bullet casing which requires a very robust metal to withstand the explosion of the gunpowder used to propel it.

The Republic RC-3 Seabee seaplane has a registration number that begins with a N, signifying it is registered in the United States.

The whole 'science' of the solar plant is ludicrous, especially the size of the collecting dish (the power of just one car equals about 100 sq.m of sunshine).

At the end of the film, M calls Bond on the telephone on Scaramanga's junk. Although MI6 might have discovered the phone number somehow, there's no way M could know that Bond would be on the boat.

M may not have known for sure that Bond was on the junk, but he obviously tried the number to see if he was and lucked out.

It is said during the duel that the golden gun can fire only one bullet, yet at the beginning of the movie Scaramanga shoots the fingers off of the Bond dummy using multiple bullets. That's because he's using his dead opponent's gun.

When Bond adopts a third nipple "disguise" in order to appear as Scaramanga to Hai Fat, his extra nipple is in an anatomically unlikely location. Extra nipples are usually found in the "milk line," which runs vertically from the armpit, through the normal nipple to the groin crease. Bond places his extra nipple medial to his normal one - which is very unlikely, though verified cases have occurred as far away as the foot.

It's a fake nipple and Bond has never claimed to be an expert on the proper anatomical placement of third nipples, so it's irrelevant where it's placed.

The lieutenant and his nieces go to where Bond is being held at the karate school for the express purpose of rescuing him and after fighting off his captures they drive off leaving him there.

Actually, Lieutenant Hip drives off thinking that Bond is already in the car, while his nieces protest in vain to point out that he isn't.

James Bond travels all the way to Beirut to track down the golden bullet that Scaramanga used to kill Fairbanks (Agent 002) which is then analysed to deduce it was made by Lazar. However they already have the golden bullet that has been sent (supposedly) from Scaramanga which would have saved the journey.

Bond travelled to Beirut to see if Saida could offer him detailed information on the man that killed Fairbanks. With that avenue of investigation proving to be a dead-end, Bond obtained the spent bullet for analysis.

Even though it is supposed to be a wax dummy, you can clearly see Al Capone blink his eyes when he fires the gun. Also, his movements are way too human-like to be a dummy.

During the opening sequence where Scaramanga has just shot the henchman, if you speed up the frames you can clearly see that the James Bond "dummy" is actually Roger Moore himself as he is naturally shaking attempting to keep his balance. Also, the position of his hands and fingers change frame by frame. In the first shot his hand is low and fingers in a fist shape, when Scaramanga shoots the fingers they are open and his hand is higher.

The writers clearly seem unaware of some aspects of Asian culture. Both Bond and Scaramanga refer to Hai Fat as "Mr. Fat." Surely the two men are worldly enough to know that in many East Asian countries, the surname comes first; therefore, they should have said "Mr. Hai." Also, Hip says his brother runs a karate school; karate is Japanese, not Thai. While it is not impossible that someone might run a karate school in Bangkok, it seems far more likely that the writers just assumed that all martial arts forms come from some nebulous place called "Asia."

In the final fight between Bond and Nick Nack, Bond is dressed in a robe and is barefooted. After a number of wine bottles are broken, throwing glass all over the bedroom floor, Bond locks Nick Nack into a suitcase and takes him outside, never putting on any footwear. Then he returns to Goodnight in the bedroom and walks through it without even watching where he's walking, never stepping on any glass and cutting his feet.

When Bond enters hotel Room 602 the shot from the hallway shows the door less than a foot from the door for Room 600, but the shot from inside the room shows a large (roughly 8 foot wide) entryway with the door in the center.

All cars used for the stunts in the car chase through Bangkok have the steering wheel on the wrong side of the car. Thai cars have the driver sitting right due to their left-side driving.

On Scaramanga's island, there is no gate on the stairway landing right above the coolant that could cause the island to be destroyed if something falls into it.

When we first meet the two karate schoolgirls (Hip's nieces) in the back of the car, they are supposed to be carrying on a conversation, but the audio track simply repeats three times the following two sentences in Mandarin Chinese (spoken presumably by the two girls): "How are you?" and "That's what I think". Of the two actresses, only Qiu Yuen is Chinese; Joie Vejjajiva is Thai.

When Bond lets Goodnight out of the hotel closet, she asks what time it is. Bond answers "two-ish" and Goodnight replies "Two?" but their lips each appear to say "twelve".

When Scaramanga shoots the fingers off the statue/dummy of Bond, only three shots are heard, and Scaramanga can only be seen to fire three times, but all four fingers are shot off. In addition, only two fingers are seen shot off in the view from behind the statue/dummy before the angle changes, but a third finger is already missing after cutting to a close-up of the hand, before the fourth finger is then shot off.

During the fight in Beirut a bumped mirror shows a camera man, someone standing over the camera, and studio lighting. (This is noted in the commentary on the re-release DVD. It could have been corrected when the film was remastered, but they decided to leave it in.)

A crew member is visible in the large mirror as Bond walks across the bathroom to hand Andrea her robe.

When Bond gets ready for the jump over the water in the car, a light along with the light guy on a ladder is seen in the car window.

In the establishing shot of Hai Fat's hillside house, patches of light dart about on the ornate arch/frontage. This is from hand-held reflective panels, held by crew members out of sight (off the bottom corners of the image), who are trying to give the booklet guards some light/contrast on their faces.

During lunch on Scaramanga's island, a stage light is reflected in the polished metal goblets used by the diners.

Hai Fat's home is supposedly in Bangkok, but it's located high on a lush hillside. There are no such hills in the vicinity of Bangkok.

The flying car is supposedly found "200 miles west of Bangkok", which would put it somewhere off the coast of Burma. Also, the island they are head for is said to be about eight hours' sail from Hong Kong, at least 1,000 miles from Bangkok in the other direction.

After the Bottoms Up Club scene, Lieutenant Hip tells Bond that they are going to "Kowloon side." He then says "We're going to the New Territories" as they ride the boat across Victoria Harbor. But the Bottoms Up Club is actually located in Kowloon, and Kowloon is part of the New Territories.

On the map that is produced to show the location of Scaramanga's island, the islands in the archipelago are clearly marked out as 'Ko', meaning 'island' in Thai. This correlates with the real location of the island that was used in the film, but does not correlate with the film's pretense of the islands being near Hong Kong.

Minutes after they leave Khao Phing Kan in an old junk, James Bond tells Goodnight that they should be in Hong Kong in approximately eight hours. From Khao Phing Kan, the seaway to Hong Kong would lead through the street of Malakka, past the south tip of Singapore, and then past Vietnam through the South Chinese sea, in total 2000 nautical miles.

James Bond's duplicate mannequin is in view of the cameras that Nick Nack is looking on and over quickly. Yet, unseen in a quick speed, Bond manages to switch clothes with the mannequin and hide it without being spotted.

When the ballistics expert examines the bullet, he declares the mass to be 20.53 grams (316 grains). Even though 23 carat gold is somewhat denser (1.67:1) than the lead alloy used in modern arms, this is still almost thirteen times as massive as the largest 17 caliber bullets manufactured (25 grains). It would look more like a thick needle than a bullet, being nearly two and three quarters inches in length and would be nearly impossible to stabilize.

When Bond goes to Macau to see Lazar, he approaches an Asian woman and two children and asks where Lazar is, holding a piece of paper and saying it slowly indicating that he does not know how to speak their language. However, in the film You Only Live Twice (1967), Bond tells Moneypenny that he took a first in Oriental languages at Cambridge.

The sign adjacent to the liquid helium tanks reads "Absolute zero must be maintained, to prevent prompt criticality". First, absolute zero can not be attained, due to the uncertainty principle. It can only be approached. (Liquid Helium exists around 4 degrees above absolute zero, or 4 Kelvin). Second, "prompt criticality" is a nuclear engineering term which refers to a (usually unstable) condition where a fission chain reaction is sustained via prompt neutrons alone. Aside from specially designed research reactors, this condition only occurs in nuclear weapons or criticality accidents (most notable being the 1986 Chernobyl-4 disaster).

The liner Queen Elizabeth sank in the Hong Kong harbor on 9 January 1972, not in 1971.

Scaramanga's gun is made up of a pen, cigarette case, lighter and a cuff link, yet when Scaramanga assembles his gun at the table, he doesn't produce the cuff link.