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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
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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.
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