On October 10th, 2008 the original golden gun prop used in the film was reported stolen from Elstree Studios, north of London. Various news releases place the value of the movie prop at somewhere between 136,000 and 220,000 dollars.

Although not well known at the time, the film would be the last Bond movie that Harry Salzman would produce.

Actress Maud Adams, who played "Andrea Anders", "Scaramanga"s mistress in the film, is the only actress to have played two lead roles in Bond films. A favourite of Cubby Broccoli, In 1983, she returned to play the title character in "Octopussy".

In the scene where the gangster shoots at the fake mobsters, the music being played is a cover of the theme song.

One of the two schoolgirls (the one with the shorter hair) who help Bond beat-up the bad guys at the karate school, was the real-life daughter of the head of the Japanese secret service at the time.

When J. W. Pepper first notices Bond going by on the boat, some oriental music plays - the tune is the theme to Live And Let Die (this was the previous film where they first met).

The title actor (Christopher Lee) and James Bond's creator (Ian Flemming) are cousins. This was unknown to the producers at the time Lee was cast.

During the chase scene all the major cars are from American Motors: Bond in the Hornet, the Matador, and the police cars are Ambassadors.

Rocker, Alice Cooper composed and recorded a theme song for the film - as Paul McCartney had done the year before (Live and let Die)- and submitted it to the producers. They decided not to use it. The song can be heard on Cooper's 1974 album: "Muscle of Love".

Fleming used the name "Scaramanga" from a Greek man he met on the island of Hydra, called "Pandia Scaramanga", and in whose island house he stayed.

"The Man With The Golden Gun" was originally intended to have appeared much earlier in the Bond movie series than it did. A complete script was written in late 1966, and "...Golden Gun" was to have been the fifth Bond adventure. Shooting was planned to begin in Cambodia in the Spring of 1967. However, with the escalation of war in neighbouring Vietnam, it was thought that Cambodia was not a safe place to shoot a Bond movie, and these plans were cancelled