Exploding a dirty bomb in Ft. Knox was the movie version Fleming was already dead when that came out if IRC.
In the book, the plan was to steal the gold/
Best Bond villain ever. Oddjob too. Connery sealed his ownership of the Bond franchise in this movie, and Honor Blackman was delish as Pussy Galore. The whole Bond motif just crystallized in this film better than in any other in the series.
Something fun to watch for when you catch it on late-night TV or DVD: When Oddjob leaves the body in the Lincoln and lets the big magnet pick it up for crushing, there’s a glimpse of the car’s undercarriage, and you can briefly see that all the mechanicals had been stripped out. I’d imagine that was to economize (why waste a perfectly good engine?) but it might also have been to make for a more satisfying crush.
I want that Lincoln for a coffee table!
Blow it up? They’ll sift the rubble and collect it all right back. Dumb idea.
If they can leech gold out of a mountain, they can leech it out of a pile of rubble.
The theme to that was (it seems to me) the best Bond movie theme ever.
This story though, looks to me to be on shaky ground.
Germany would have won the war if the United States hadn’t joined in. By the time the US got in, Russia was out of the war, Italy (talked into joining the allies) was kicked back off the frontier and pushed down deep into its own territory in defensive positions, Romania (similarly suckered in by the British and French) was occupied, the British and French forces were nearly wrecked and had Germany’s undivided attention, and the whole war on the western front was fought on French or Belgian soil.