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Licensedto thrlll: With Sean Connery starring in GoldflngeI dlrector GuyHamilton, below left, took Eond's bg Brion SUCCeSStO a new Pendreigh OUil$,HN|s international level -f-sittingIHE cold-eyed killer is next to James I Bond in the passenger I seat of 00?'s Aston I Martin, with a pistol I pointing at the British agent's head. Bul. in an iconicscene. Bond's nngerflicks open the top of the gear stick and plessesa red buiton. The AilD E$ roof fliesopen and his foeis hurtled into oblivion,along with the now legendary ejeclor seai. 'fantasy Film director Guy Hamilton, who created that legendary scene in No,not the land' coldRnger, is the man widely credited with perfecling the classic Bond lormula of guns, girls and gadgets, exotic locations and darkly humorous of fiction's007 but the real ud one-liners.After the 1964nhn. with its famous Aslon Martin DB5, he went on to direct three subsequent Bond s lnovies. wartimelife film-maker, of the But befbre he a secret became Hamiltorl had anolher career, working with real-life secret agents, fenying them in a fast molor boat on top secret and exiremely dangerous film-makerwho perfected trips from his base in Aberdeen to Nazi-occupied Europe. A warllme grouncling in espionage might seem the perfect preparation theclassic Bond formula ior a James Bond nlovie. but nothing could be fttrthef l)'om the truth. according to Hamil- ton. 'My waltime expefences have got nothing to do with Bond,'he socks. These are the sort of says.'James Bond is fanCasy things that would gtve them Iand.' away.' So much for the girts and t After the war. Harnilton -{v -,,. "" I' I became assisiant director on , i t' exotic locations. But what ofthe r, gadgets? Harnilton says that in ,l The Third Man (1949).wrote &qt.iirry t€";1,. i., .1 | .t, his war the equipment was far and directed The Colditz Story more basic and prone to lailing (1955) and had the chance to al the most inconvenient time. tfi' : direct the first Bond movie Dr Hamilton,86, now lives in No (1962).But family commit- Majorca but later tlris nronth hc menls precluded a long locaiion will retrrrn to AbercleeD lbr the shoot in Janraica. tirst time since VE Day to give a When it came to GolrtlinBer, talk on his life. tbe third Bond movie. Hamilton As a young lieutenarlt on the strllggled [o persuade Connely, Royal Navy's Ivlotor Torpedo - now a keen eolfer - that a Boat 718,he was one of the Dren golf maich beiween Bond and gelting Goldfinger couid be €xciting. respoDsibleior special #$ 'Sean operatives ilcross the Nor[h had never swung a golf Sea and English Channel and Norway, feuying operatives and club in his life and thouEht it depositiDg them behind enemy picking up escaped POWS and was upper-class and not partic- lines. He personally accompa- shot.down pilots. ularly interesting,' he said. nied tlre rowing boat that took On several occasions they The lirst two Bond films had t,hemen lionr open water to the found themselves in the same been big hiis bul Goldfinger shore. waters as enemy ships. They took Bond's successto a new Pi(kyour fir5l Sky TV Packkom f16.50 a nroIlh arrdadd olhefsfor just fl exlraa Inonthea(h. On one occasion,problems used sisnals to fool then in[o iDternational level and was one ll5 simple,our uniqueinstallataon rervice - 5ky'sthared di5h - make5rl easyto gel 5kyTV5greal radio of the highest-grossir)gfilms in with a meant Hamilton lhinking they were on the same your and his returning crew simply side. But they also came under America in 1965. enlerlainmentin llat. could noi lincl the mother ship nre. and were left behind in France. Hamilton describes it in his fi tky Inl,riliIrrricrni . There'sa 5kyTV Packfor you.Walch lhe laleslserie5 ol while he makes it sound like rsual understated fashion- VarielyPa(k. (nowledge givesyou a minor lnconvenience, 'Let's get drmatic,'he I INE of the elements o[the Pl