The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Bernard Lee: 'M'

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Quotes 

• James Bond : I mean sir, who would pay a million dollars to have me killed?

  M : Jealous husbands! Outraged chefs! Humiliated tailors! The list is endless!

• [last lines] 

  James Bond : [Getting into bed]  Now, where were we?

  [Embrace and Kiss] 

  Goodnight : Oh, James! Mmmm!

  [Bond sees a phone rising up on the nightstand] 

  Goodnight : What's the matter?

  James Bond : Something came up.

  [Bond picks up phone] 

  James Bond : Hello?

  M : [Speaking over the phone]  Ah, there you are, Bond. Well done, congratulations.

  James Bond : Thank you, sir.

  M : Is Miss Goodnight with you? I'd like a word with her.

  James Bond : Hold on, sir.

  [Bond sets phone down and goes back to kissing Goodnight] 

  M : Bond? Bond, are you there? Goodnight?

  James Bond : [Bond picks up the phone]  She's just coming, sir.

  [Bond sets phone back down] 

  M : Goodnight?

  Goodnight : [In the background]  Mmmm.

  M : Goodnight. Goodnight!

  James Bond : [Bond picks up the phone again]  Good night, sir.

  [Hangs up the phone] 

• [M stares in shock as Bond relays news of his foul-up] 

  James Bond : And that is really all there is to report, sir.

  M : So if I heard correctly, Scaramanga got away - in a car that sprouted wings!

  Q : Oh, that's perfectly feasible, sir. As a matter of fact, we're working on one now.

  M : Oh, Q, shut up! Miss Goodnight was in the boot.

  James Bond : Yes, sir. We found the carplane abandonned about two hundred miles west of Bangkok.

  M : And the Solex?

  Lieutenant Hip : In Goodnight's handbag, sir.

  M : [shakes head]  Where's Miss Goodnight now?

  James Bond : Well, we don't know sir. Communications aren't picking up the signal from the homer she was supplied by Q.

  Q : [indignantly]  Rubbish! They're simply not stepping up the reception sufficiently to enable...

  M : [cuts him off]  Oh, shut up! Of all the fouled-up, half-witted operations...

• James Bond : Scaramanga does not have any contract out on me. He couldn't have missed me tonight. Instead, he hit some chap coming out of the club. I got quite a shock when I saw who it was.

  M : I should think you did.

  James Bond : Our missing solar-energy expert, Gibson.

  M : Yes, Gibson! He was prepared to come back, under special terms. That's why I'm out here with Professor Frazier. I almost wish that Scaramanga had a contract out on you.

• M : What do you know about a man called Scaramanga, 007?

  James Bond : Scaramanga? Oh, yes! The man with the golden gun. Born in the circus. Father - the Ringmaster, possibly Cuban. Mother - English, a snake charmer. He was a spectacular trick shot artist by the time he was ten and a local Rio gunman at fifteen. The KGB recruited him there and trained him in Europe where he became an - overworked, underpaid assassin. He went independent in the late '50s. Current price: one million dollars a hit. No photograph on file. But, he does have one distinguishing feature, however, a superfluous papilla.

  M : A what?

  James Bond : A mammary gland. A third nipple, sir. He uses a golden bullet, hence man with the golden gun. Present domicile - unknown.

• M : I'm relieving you of your present assignment, 007.

  James Bond : Sir, the energy crisis is still with us. I respectfully submit that finding Gibson and his solar cell data is even more important than ever.

  M : It is in deed. And I can't jeopardize it... by having Scaramanga pop up and put a bullet in you.