Goldfinger (film) hero with an insultingly cool, commanding air." He saved his praises for other actors in the film, saying that "Gert Fröbe is aptly fat and feral as the villainous financier, and Honor Blackman is forbiddingly frigid and flashy as the latter's aeronautical accomplice." In "Guide for the Film Fanatic", Danny Peary wrote that "Goldfinger" is "the best of the James Bond films starring Sean Connery...There's lots of humor, gimmicks, excitement, an amusing yet tense golf contest between Bond and Goldfinger, thrilling fights to the death between Bond and Oddjob and Bond and Goldfinger, and a fascinating central crime... Most enjoyable,
Motifs in the James Bond film series in the films: the laboratory of Hugo Drax is opened by touchtones that play the tune of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", whilst when Bond and Anya are seen walking across the desert in "The Spy Who Loved Me", the theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" is heard. In most of the films, the main villain often captures Bond and, rather than kill him quickly, attempts a slow and protracted death, from which Bond will always escape. This will often also come with a scene of the villain explaining his master plan to Bond. Goldfinger chained Bond to a nuclear