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,
Goldfinger (novel) compared to contemporary versions of both Sapper and John Buchan. "Goldfinger" was serialised as a daily story and as a comic strip in the "Daily Express" newspaper, before being the third James Bond feature film of the Eon Productions series, released in 1964 and starring Sean Connery as Bond. Most recently, "Goldfinger" was adapted for BBC Radio with Toby Stephens as Bond and Sir Ian McKellen as Goldfinger. Fleming structured the novel in three sections—"Happenstance", "Coincidence" and "Enemy action"—which was how Goldfinger described Bond's three seemingly coincidental meetings with him. Whilst changing planes in Miami after closing down a Mexican