Roger Moore’s equivalent of Sean Connery’s infamous misogynistic “man talk” <butt slap> moment arrives in The Man With the Golden Gun, and it’s arguably worse. For some reason, Bond decides that physical coercion and not suave interrogation is necessary for Andrea Anders. Rather than using charm or strategy to extract information about the golden bullets and Scaramanga, Bond bypasses conversation entirely by deceiving a hotel employee to gain access to her room, and immediately resorting to brute force. He twists her arm violently, smacks her across the face, in jaw dropping fashion.

Moore’s misplaced aggression in this scene is an oddity and undermines his normally sophisticate nature. It’s one of those moments when Bond doesn’t act like himself, and it’s unclear why violence was his first choice in this interaction. In my opinion, it’s definitely a (rare) lowlight of Roger Moore’s James Bond portrayal.