Smuggling in literature is a common theme, from Bizet's Carmen to the James Bond books ( and later films ) Diamonds are Forever and Goldfinger.

Rider is one of three women in the Bond canon who have been scarred by rape ( Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever and Pussy Galore in Goldfinger being the others ).

After being absent from Goldfinger, SPECTRE returns in Thunderball and subsequently is featured in the following films You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Diamonds Are Forever.

After Dr. No is killed, Goldfinger takes over the Volcano Lair using the OMEN Mass Energy Neutralizer which causes Disintegration of Organic Matter.

Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959.

The story centres on the investigation by MI6 operative James Bond into the gold smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation.

Whilst changing planes in Miami after closing down a Mexican heroin smuggling operation, British Secret Service operative, James Bond is asked by Junius Du Pont, a rich American businessman ( whom he briefly met and gambled with in Casino Royale ), to watch Auric Goldfinger, with whom Du Pont is playing Canasta in order to discover if he is cheating.

Bond quickly realises that Goldfinger is indeed cheating with the aid of his female assistant, Jill Masterton, who is spying on DuPont's cards.

Back in London, Bond's superior, M, tasks him with determining how Goldfinger is smuggling gold out of the country: M also suspects Goldfinger of being connected to SMERSH and financing their western networks with his gold.

Bond manages to trace Goldfinger to a warehouse in Geneva where he finds that the armour of Goldfinger's car is actually white-gold, cast into panels at his Kent refinery.

Bond is tortured by Oddjob when he refuses to confess his role in trailing Goldfinger.

Bond is drugged before his flight back to England and wakes to find he has been captured by Goldfinger, who has managed to hijack a BOAC jetliner.

Psychologically Goldfinger is warped, possibly because of an inferiority complex brought on by his shortness, in contrast to a number of Fleming's other over-sized villains and physically he is odd, with a lack of proportion to his body.

As with a number of other villains in the Bond novels, there is an echo of World War II, with Goldfinger employing members of the German Luftwaffe, some Japanese and Koreans.

Goldfinger has an obsession with gold to the extent that academic Elizabeth Ladenson says that he is " a walking tautology ".

In doing so, " Goldfinger himself ... is a mere obstacle, the dragon to be got rid of before the worthy knight can make off with the duly conquered lady.

As with Ladenson's observation that Bond was being depicted as " the worthy knight ", Raymond Benson also identifies the Saint George theme in Goldfinger, which he says has run in all the novels, but is finally stated explicitly in the book as part of Bond's thoughts after Goldfinger reveals he will use an atomic device to open the vault: " Bond sighed wearily.

) Goldfinger consulted his lawyers when Goldfinger was published in 1959, which prompted Fleming to threaten to rename the character ' Goldprick ', but eventually decided not to sue ; Fleming's publishers agreed to pay his costs and gave him six free copies of the book.

He is eventually sent to Crab Key, where he confronts Dr. No. During their duel, GoldenEye uses his mechanical eye to sabotage the island's nuclear reactor, causing it to electrocute Dr. No. Upon No's death, Goldfinger contacts GoldenEye and informs him that he believes he is too dangerous to be left alive, and that he had contacted GoldenEye earlier and told him to activate a program which would shut down the Lair's defense grid.

GoldenEye fights his way through the Lair, implanting the computer virus in the process, eventually reaching the area where Goldfinger and the OMEN are.

Bond foils an assassination attempt on Goldfinger by Jill Masterton's sister, Tilly, to avenge Jill's death at Goldfinger's hands: he had painted her body with gold paint, which killed her.

He is killed when Bond uses a knife to shatter the window next to his seat on an aircraft, which depressurises the plane and blows Oddjob out of the window, a fate transferred to Auric Goldfinger in the film version.

A character modeled after Sean Connery's Bond is tackled by Homer and killed after a parody of the laser scene from Goldfinger.

Argentine boxer Carlos Monzon, who didn't have a clear diction, had his voice dubbed by a professional actor when he played the lead in the drama La Mary, and Gert Frobe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film of that name ( Goldfinger ) was because of his heavy German accent dubbed by Michael Collins.

Mirabilis was first established in June 1996 by five Israelis: Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser, Amnon Amir, Arik Vardi, and Arik's father Yossi Vardi.

The company was founded by four young Israelis: Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir.

Barrington doubles as the blond Gold Girl ( inspired by Shirley Eaton in Goldfinger ) while her red-headed " Shirley " character watches her perform.

The irony being that the area was a trap set by Goldfinger, where the air would drain out and the player would die.

The same era also saw the construction of the Robin Hood Gardens housing complex ( overlooking the northern portal of the Blackwall Tunnel ) – designed by architects Peter and Alison Smithson – and the similarly brutalist Balfron Tower, Carradale House and Glenkerry House ( to the north ) – designed by Ernő Goldfinger.

Upon its release, Goldfinger went to the top of the best-seller lists ; the novel was broadly well received by the critics, being favourably compared to contemporary version of both Sapper and John Buchan.

Bond contrives to meet and have a round of golf with Goldfinger ; Goldfinger attempts to win the golf match by cheating, but Bond turns the tables on him, beating him in the process.

Issued by MI6 with an Aston Martin DB Mark III, Bond trails Goldfinger as he takes his vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost ( adapted with armour plating and armour-plated glass ) via air ferry to Switzerland, driven by Oddjob.

In a desperate attempt to survive being cut in two by a circular saw, Bond offers to work for Goldfinger, a ruse that Goldfinger initially refuses, but then accepts.

Raymond Benson identified times in the novel when Bond's investigation of Goldfinger was a gamble too and cites Bond tossing a coin to decide on his tactics in relation to his quarry.

He was strongly influenced by the publication of Le Corbusier's Vers une architecture, and became a fervent admirer of Le Corbusier's former mentor, Auguste Perret, an expert in designing reinforced concrete structures and an inspiration for Goldfinger when designing his own home.

Dolphy also made spy film parodies when it became a fad, beginning with Dolpinger ( 1965 ) as Agent 1-2-3 ( a parody of the James Bond movie Goldfinger ).

Forster directed the twenty-second James Bond film, Quantum of Solace which began shooting on January 2, 2008, shortly before his 39th birthday, making him the youngest director in the series ' history ( beating the previous record set by Guy Hamilton, who was 41 when he directed Goldfinger five years before Forster's birth ).

Blackman and Diana Rigg are the only two Bond girls who are older than Bond himself ; Connery was only 34 when filming Goldfinger, Blackman was 39.

Bond defeats Goldfinger ( who suffers Oddjob's fate in the novel when he is blown out the window at high altitude ).

He also played a small role as Colonel Smithers opposite Sean Connery in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger around a dinner table when they are discussing how Auric Goldfinger transports his gold overseas.

Pfeiffer is known to play sets wearing a thong and shows it to the crowd when Goldfinger covers Sisqo's Thong Song.