struggled to reach the 1970s. Goldfinger has attributes that ensured Roger Moore's 8-film canon could rely heavily on comedy to pull it through - combined with stunning locations and quirky villains / henchmen. Though Red Grant (Robert Shaw) in From Russia with Love was the first 'true' henchman in the series, it was Oddjob (Harold Sakata) who paved the way for legends including Jaws, Vargas and Nic-Nac. The exceptional lengths which Goldfinger (Gerte Frobe) plans to go to corrupt the world economy isn't too far from the established SPECTRE game plan, but in terms of the future, Goldfinger works alongside China, not the infamous Blofeld troupe. Ian Fleming's book openly acknowledges the lesbianism of Tilly Masterson and Pussy Galore, but the film only hints at Pussy (Honor Blackman) as homosexual. Like Tilly (Tania Mallet), in the film, she is ultimately swayed by Connery's charm. Fleming connected Goldfinger with SMERSH (the villains which became SPECTRE in the film series), but the film detaches him and, even ignoring the Cold War element, connects him with China and the atomic bomb. Coincidentally, it was China who detonated their first atomic bomb in October 1964. Writers Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn even corrected Fleming's impractical end-goal of stealing gold bullion from Fort Knox and openly acknowledged it in the film -- as Goldfinger reveals his 'true' plan of setting an atomic bomb off inside Fort Knox, contaminating the bullion itself. Talk about capturing the zeitgeist. James Chapman writes in his brilliant book, Licence to