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Roger Moore with policemen in Hong Kong, 1974. Photo: GIS/Handout

On this day | James Bond in Hong Kong: Roger Moore arrives in city in 1974 to film scenes for The Man with the Golden Gun

  • Hollywood star Roger Moore and cast and crew of James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun stayed at The Peninsula hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui during filming in 1974
  • Moore played the iconic British spy Secret Agent 007 and visited Hong Kong three times before his death in 2017

Out of the seven actors who officially played James Bond, only one actually visited Hong Kong to bring Ian Fleming’s iconic British spy to life on the big screen – Roger Moore.

In the 1974 movie The Man with the Golden Gun, James Bond travels from Beirut to Macau, and then to Hong Kong. The film includes scenes shot at The Peninsula, the Bottoms Up girlie bar in Tsim Sha Tsui and the wreck of the RMS Queen Elizabeth in Victoria Harbour.

In these pictures from the South China Morning Post’s archives, we look back at the time Roger Moore visited Hong Kong in 1974 when filming the movie.

Roger Moore with policemen in Hong Kong, 1974. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Roger Moore near the Western Market in “The Man with the Golden Gun”. Photo: United Artists
The Bottoms Up bar in Tsim Sha Tsui in a scene from “The Man with the Golden Gun”. Photo: United Artists
Roger Moore and Britt Ekland outside The Peninsula in “The Man with the Golden Gun”. Photo: United Artists
Roger Moore with police officers in Hong Kong, 1974. Photo: GIS/Handout
Roger Moore visits a floating casino in “The Man with the Golden Gun”. Photo: MGM
Veteran British actor Roger Moore (second left) at a press conference in 1974, telling the press of his distaste for movies featuring pornography and “blood, guts and gore”. Photo: Jean Chan
Film poster for the James Bond movie, “The Man with the Golden Gun”. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Actors Roger Moore and Yuen Qiu in the James Bond film, “The Man with the Golden Gun”. Photo: SCMP Pictures
RMS Queen Elizabeth as seen in “The Man with the Golden Gun”. Photo: United Artists
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