Lot Essay
James Bond's [Roger Moore] shark gun is appropriated by Kananga's men with Bond's wet suit when 007's planned return journey to Felix Leiter and Quarrel Jr. and their getaway boat is initially foiled, and Bond and Solitaire [Jane Seymour] are captured in Kananga's lair. Kananga [Yaphet Kotto] questions Bond about the gun...I find it particularly fascinating, what is it ?, Bond replies...It's a shark gun, naturally, with compressed gas pellets. On contact, the bullets literally blow up the target, Kananga tries the gun out by firing at the sofa Whisper [Earl Jolly Brown] is sitting on, causing it to inflate and then explode. In the penultimate confrontation of the film, Bond uses the magnetic mechanism on his specially adapted Rolex wristwatch to draw one of the compressed-air capsules to him, eventually forcing Kananga to bite it, blow up and burst, prompting the typical Bond response...He always did have an inflated opinion of himself.