Goldfinger

SO JAMES BOND will not return. Sean Connery, the true original, is gone. And only now do we realise what he gave us. Shaped from the start around his cat-like moves and that steady, amused voice (with a lovely salting of Scottish), Connery wasn’t the best Bond — he defined Bond. The resulting 25 official films have never been anything so crass as a franchise. Bond is integral to the very concept of going to the movies — the chance to escape. Amid changing times and sensibilities, indeed changing faces, we have needed Bond in all his absurdity,