Prowling the files: James Bond, after all the fuss

Here is an assertion that, at first, I wanted to stick in the fat folder marked "critic gets it wrong": "While controversy rages round the figure of James Bond, he is paradoxically turning into a stock figure that no one will want to argue about." It's the opening line of a "Criminal All-Sorts" round-up review by Violet Grant from the Daily Telegraph of April 5, 1959. She is considering Goldfinger. But she remains in the shadow of t...

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