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 eventually killed by the Omen when it explodes, releasing the energy and killing everyone ( except the player, who is safe from the Omen in a cut off area.

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.

He later used Blackwell as the model for Pussy Galore in his novel Goldfinger and Blackwell gave him a boat called Octopussy, the name of which he used for a later short story.

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.

Fleming structured the novel in three sections —" Happenstance ", " Coincidence " and " Enemy action "— which was how Goldfinger described Bond's three seemingly coincidental meetings with him.

Continuation author Raymond Benson agrees, and sees Goldfinger as a transitional novel, with Bond becoming more human than in previous books and more concerned with what Benson calls " the mortal trappings of life ", which manifest itself with the opening chapter of the book as Bond sits in Miami airport and thinks through his fight with and killing of a Mexican thug.

Auric Goldfinger was described by Raymond Benson as " Fleming's most successful villain to date " and Fleming gives him a number of character flaws that are brought out across the novel.

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.

As usual in the Bond novels, a number of Fleming's friends or associates had their names used in the novel ; the Masterton sisters having their names taken from Sir John Masterman, an MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the double cross system during World War II ; Alfred Whiting, the golf professional at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, becoming Alfred Blacking ; whilst the Royal St George's Golf Club itself became the Royal St Mark's, for the game between Bond and Goldfinger.

Goldfinger received more positive reviews than Fleming's previous novel, Dr. No, which had faced widespread criticism in the British media.

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* Goldfinger is a 1958 novel by British author Ian Fleming in the James Bond series.

Oddjob ( often written as " Odd Job ") is a henchman to the villain Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film and novel, Goldfinger.

* Goldfinger ( novel ): James Bond is shackled spreadeagled to a table and a circular saw ( a laser in the film ) is approaching to cut him in half.

( taken from Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger )

In Ian Fleming's 1959 novel Goldfinger, Auric Goldfinger mentions this last rule to James Bond in Goldfinger's warehouse in Geneva.

Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Goldfinger, based on Ian Fleming's novel of the same name.

In 1958 he was forced to emigrate from the U. S because of his gun duel with Ramon " The Rod " Rodriguez, his opposite from the Detroit Purple Gang, also featured in the novel Goldfinger, killing Ramon and earning $ 100 for it.

Author Ian Fleming used the Royal St. George's course under the name " Royal St. Marks " in his 1959 novel Goldfinger.

Pussy Galore is a fictional character from the James Bond film and novel Goldfinger.

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

( This ploy was later used by Ian Fleming, who was a business partner of Engelhard, in his novel Goldfinger )

Most recently, Goldfinger was adapted for BBC Radio with Toby Stephens as Bond and Sir Ian McKellen as Goldfinger.

Sir Ian McKellen: Goldfinger on BBC Radio 4

On 3 April 2010, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of Goldfinger with Toby Stephens ( who played villain Gustav Graves in Die Another Day ) as Bond, Ian McKellen as Goldfinger and Stephens ' Die Another Day co-star Rosamund Pike as Pussy Galore.

A discussion about Ernő with Ursula Goldfinger's cousin on a golf course prompted Ian Fleming to name the James Bond adversary and villain Auric Goldfinger after Ernő.

A number of cottages were demolished to allow for the construction, which was strongly opposed by a number of local residents including novelist Ian Fleming ( this was said to be his inspiration for the name of the James Bond villain Auric Goldfinger ) and the future Conservative Home Secretary Henry Brooke.

* Goldfinger — Ian Fleming

In 1962 Broccoli and director Terence Young chose him as the cinematographer for an adaptation of Ian Fleming's Dr. No. Moore would go on to make another six Bond films ; From Russia with Love ( for which he won a BAFTA award ), Goldfinger, Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, and portions of The Man with the Golden Gun, on which he was replaced due to illness by Oswald Morris.

* The popular 1959 Ian Fleming-written James Bond novel Goldfinger, and the 1964 movie of the same name, are about a criminal plot called " Operation Grand Slam " to break into the U. S. Bullion Depository.

* Goldfinger ( novel ), the 1959 James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming