Goldfinger (novel) Sarin, which had been discovered by the Nazis. Goldfinger has an obsession with gold to the extent that academic Elizabeth Ladenson says that he is "a walking tautology". Ladenson lists both his family name and his first name as being related to gold ("Auric" is an adjective pertaining to gold); his clothes, hair, car and cat are all gold coloured, or a variant thereof; his Korean servants are referred to by Bond as being "yellow", or yellow-faced"; and he paints his women (normally prostitutes) gold before sex. Elizabeth Ladenson thought the character of Pussy Galore to be "perhaps the most
Goldfinger (novel) plot of the film was also changed from stealing the gold at Fort Knox to irradiating the gold vault with a dirty bomb. BBC documentary (1973) The 1973 BBC documentary "Omnibus: The British Hero" featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters (e.g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond), including James Bond in dramatised scenes from "Goldfinger" – notably featuring the hero being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam – and "Diamonds Are Forever". Radio adaptation (2010) Following its successful version of "Dr. No", produced in 2008 as a special one-off to mark