An additional warning has also been added to the programme details for 1967’s You Only Live Twice, declaring that it “contains outdated racial stereotypes”.
The film stars Sean Connery as Bond, facing off against Donald Pleasence’s Blofeld, and features a scene in which Connery tries to pass as Japanese.
Goldfinger also features in the season, with the programme notes suggesting that Barry’s “loudly swinging soundtrack” matches “cartoonish sexiness”.
The 1964 film
includes a scene in which Connery’s Bond apparently forces himself on Honor Blackman’s Pussy Galore in a hay barn. In a 1959 letter concerning the novel from which the film was adapted, Ian Fleming
explains that this “laying on of hands” from “the right man” was all which was required to “cure” the lesbian character of “her psycho-pathological malady”.