I have not seen OddJob for years..... “goodbye Mr. Solo” who gets killed off. Killing Mr.Solo was a dig at Man From Uncle TV show. Mr. Solo gets crushed in the limousine the junkyard (iirc)
actor, Harold Sakata
When Broccoli and Saltzman came to film Goldfinger they took a swipe at The Man From UNCLE; when Mr Solo walks away from “Operation Grandslam” Goldfinger sees to it that he comes to a sticky end. In the book (and early draft of the film) it was Mr Springer who suffered this fate and the change to Mr Solo was almost certainly aimed squarely at the TV series (thanks to the HMSS Weblog for pointing that out to me on Twitter, and the HMSS Weblog’s articles about the issue can be found here and here).
I wish today’s comic book obsessed filmmakers would do prequels of James Bond villains and henchmen instead. “The making of Odd Job” and “Flight Training with Pussy Galore” would be fun ones to start.