DallyMall, 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<ks, i:rlLL , 5pci'1.; ar''r1 24 with o0r 0uf Pa<l as a 'Everybodynot says. Naval ofncer involved in cove$ came undeL fire ... I lclassic Bond fornula. ivlor:ilsl'4,-i r greatdo(umenlanes. get reinforced operations, stranded in Nazi we don't want to too heaw I Ideveloped and . AddElflgieEB aod m to (re.le yolr own territory he was living James about this.' L-Ibv Hamilton in Goldnn- Yorrchoose. Bond for real. Returning from a mission, V garl was Bond girls who viewingexperieil(e. they heard news of VE Day werejust as tough and indepen- on the radio.'We arrived in dent as 00?himself. Tlrc5l,yi t;i;.:. :.:. Aberdeen and everybody was Iloney Ryder (Ursula Andress) AMILTON quickly adds, drunk. There was nobodv in the provided a template in Dr No, WalrhuJlral votr vtaril, -,,'','''''-& ' matter-of-tactly, that the harbour to catch the rope,'he but Hamilton took it further. when you want. Record,pause and rewindlive TV nt the louchof a button. boat came back for him a remembers. Pussy Galore (Honor.Black- ll'syou15 Ior ju5t[99FRc* (plu5 fJ0 standardsel-up) when was month latex Details of his He describes going into town, man) a worthy adversary. you skyTV time on the run from the where the famous music-ball And, when ii comes to kiuing ioin Gestapo have to be teased out entertainer Will Fyffe was Goldfingel; Bond has a rival in of him. singing, of all things, I Belong to Tilly Masterson (Tania Mallet), AciCbir;;riiir,rrrrl . FreeBroadband 8d5e with freesky Talk er(lu5rve to skyTV 'They whose sister smothered in He says: knew we were Glasgow from the balcony of was c!stomer5wrthin our nelworkarea. Chere and they were running one of the main hotels. gold by Goldnngel: us. The sees Two of Roger Moore's around trying to nnd There director few similari- Sk,;':,slrarrd ilisi . We sinrplyinslall one dish on yourbuilding for lreer (subje.l was a tremendous French ties between his wartime Bond films - Live and Let Die Resistance in Bilttany and I am experiences and the exploits of (1973)and The Man with the It'sfree. to 5urvey),lo supplV5ky TV lo everyonewho wdntsil. Golden Gun (1974) still in contact with sone of Bond. He says the secret agents were also . Youonly need lour flalslo signup andwe ll (onla(tyour these people. I wouldn't be here he worked wiih owed more to directed by Hamilton. today if they hadn't looked after the character of Hauy Palmel, While Bond may owe little MatragingAgenl lo gel everylhing5et up. us. as f,rst played lly a bespectacled directly to Hamilton's wartime Hamilton and his men were Michael Caine in The lpcress experiences,perhaps the Bond To get 5ky TV li.:i rnoved lrom place to place. On File in 1965. girls and the Bond banter owe one occasi0n, the Gestapo The real agents were brave, something to Aberdeen. learned exactly where they were but fallible, like Palmer, says Hamilton says:'I rem€mber in r+2I:'"i#|17,:; hiding. While the cermans got a Hamrlton, who directed thc Aberdeen the fish sirls used to Call08& police the rope and-pull us in. Mioinum ren ilow rpnrc! rd Sly Till trtrlidrng ir( rc,(i . local ofncer to show them second Harry Palmer film, take g.oadbJrd arJrlibillv ; jub cd lo vorr l!(nlroil. 8l/5tvTnll ltr,c dn,il pi!i[!t in better the way,another gendarme took F\rneralin Berlin. in 1966. They were stronger, bigger and Believe a short cut to warn the British They were slrip-searched lougher than all of my crew put crew.'By the tin)e they gol there before voyages because they together. We used to tease ihem we were in tbe wooris,'lre says. and they teased us. Th(.y were (rnh'oirq res ihr, !u 1br til !D trr bor ( I60 ru.Nn'nt ( n{ ti.r! rr nr,dJJ rr tp d'Jv dr,rrr tty N tub(ripnoi. I'rh L 16 50-f!6 rnl had a iendency lo take odd 5tyN€\$ }iilibr.siliour n,h(,.brd lft. t,ndDnirrr,.qu/.r i !rf. rJtanr&n ll"p ir li/rVrdidr€a ., I9t5 p', )^, rn" (Jr{[[l.,.ir 5!y Hamilton joined the Navy in souvenlrs with them - such as a sDecial-Special,ladies-' &o.dbid:Y.umunruba,il,uroyutr.dt'orSidrdbn,drx[{rlorl],n.drrloniiy\!b{,p[o,t,rvdcdlourinfi5\ht!]Ln(bihsri0. 1940at ihe age of 18. cinema stub - which would have yes, but Ursula a(r{!rrc!tgrordhind(oir(rpodudJrtUtr'biN'ibrcrd(6t dithitdrFtisi!:8itr )C0!\yLlkilrntrr, 'I join been difficult to explain away Andress, no. was lucky to eventually (rrom?t the lsth MTB flotilla and our to Gestapo officers. a GrL\JHarliltott discassesllis iv'irbleb0I [de ron[l wth BT 3D6or I oirgo'n!.i h ],r bir..d C.i'riibl! 9T it roqun. 'The qreer ,equ/ed lo. ernrng (ulroma dN lo cr0p0otrrl ddtrD{d Yod llv boxlri run [ (oii(reJ to J hrcd rJrp[oie I re lor l2 n'onrh r,u tr(d ga Jny speciality was dropping and French were even more c at Aberdeett UtriDersitll's (on5enB.equned le.g lJndlo,/3) Mtr'iron t\ lv,5ry.r0rdrJ[]rd/TJr )dUn' pionr l2 nurlIr Yo! il'uj tc l3 yrE o, uv picking.up agent,s in foreign awkward,' he reveals.'French Kirrg's College on April 28. cllmes. ne sav-s. socks are absolutely awfill and are bul litniled.