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Friday 21st September
2012: The Bond Blu-ray Relay Tour made its way to Stoke Park in
Buckinghamshire, where location filming took place for Goldfinger
(1964) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
On hand to give the 50th anniversary promotional activities a nostalgic
tone was the screen’s first Bond Girl, Eunice Gayson, who played Trench,
Sylvia Trench in Dr. No (1962) and From Russia With Love
(1963) opposite Sean Connery’s Bond, James Bond. The ever-effervescent
84-year-old Eunice was joined by Bond Girls Tania Mallet, the luckless
Tilly Masterson from Goldfinger who fell victim to Oddjob’s deadly
steel-rimmed chapeau, and the ever lovely Britt Ekland, whose Mary
Goodnight in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) spent more time
hindering Roger Moore’s 007 than scuppering Scaramanga’s plans. Not to be
overshadowed by the contingent of Bond Girls was the largest and most
popular Bond Bad Guy in the 007 series, Jaws – the gentle giant Richard
Kiel. |
