Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
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248: ‘there were only three great powers …’, SS, 170.
249: ‘A trip around the world …’, TC, 145–6.
249: ‘the winter visitors and the residents …’, SS, 77.
249: ‘filled the minor posts for thirty years …’, SS, 79.
250: ‘It looks to me as if [President] Batista will be on the run soon ...’, SS, 33.
250: ‘the Batista people, but we’ve got a good man …’, SS, 44.
250: ‘He hadn’t wanted to do the job …’, SS, 78.
251: riddled with ‘criminality.’, TC, 97.
251: ‘protecting the security of the British empire’, DF, 88.
251: ‘If foreign gangsters find they can get away with this kind of thing … ‘, SS, 47
251: ‘They had declared and waged war …’: SS, 69
251: ‘wild and rather animal...’: SS, 62–7
251: ‘She was a very lovely woman ...’, Blanche Blackwell interview, l6 February 2012.
251: ‘she didn’t make the smallest attempt ...’, SS, 88–9.
252: ‘When all kindness has gone …’, SS, 92–3.
252: ‘It’s extraordinary how much people can hurt each other …’, SS, 98.
252: ‘snatch what we can’, Lycett, 337.
252: ‘It’s tragic, nevertheless, that she should have cast a shadow …’, Lycett, 345.
253: ‘Men suffer from not knowing …’, Amory, 395.
254: ‘I’m not the mother type …’, “Volcano’, 2:1:2.
254: ‘a very obstreperous child, grossly pampered.’, Amory, 158.
254: ‘I am nauseated by his bad manners …’, IF to AF, undated, Amory, 296.
254: ‘wizened, and gossipy …’, Gielgud’s Letters, ed. Richard Mangan, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004), 258.
254: ‘We have endured six days of rain and gales …’, EF to AW, 26 January 1960, Amory, 249.
255: ‘Not at all nice there,’, AF to EW, 26 March 1960, Amory, 252.
255–256: ‘The gold’s out of Goldeneye …’, Lycett, 364.
256: ‘The Special Executive for Counterintelligence …’, TB, 69.
256: ‘with the Cold War wearing off…’, TB, 91.
257: ‘Peace [is] bustin’ out all over.’, TB, 209.
257: ‘independent operator’ in the spy ‘game’, TC, 173.
257: ‘terrified by the whole business …’, TB, 296.
258: ‘The two big poker players …’, Gleaner, 10 February 1963.
258: Planes with atom bombs don’t get stolen …’, TB, 178.
258: mixed race, born of a Polish father and Greek mother., TB, 61.
259: ‘an adventurer, a predator on the herd …’, TB, 135.
259: ‘a sunken galleon thickly overgrown with coral.’, TB, 144.
259: ‘the haunt of every famous pirate …’, TB, 160.
259: ‘that looked as if they belonged to the days of the pirates.’, TB, 351–2.
259: “I asked him if he’d ever tried ganja …’, Sunday Times interview, 7 October 2012.
259: ‘He wanted me to stay and watch …’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 13 March 2012.
260: ‘The modern spy could not permit himself…’, Dulles, ‘Our Spy-Boss Who Loved Bond’, Life, 28 August 1966.
260: any one of these little sandy cays …’, TB, 296.
261: in exchange for a loan of $2Om in convertible currency …,. Von Tunzelmann, Red Heat, 187–9.
261: ‘If the Americans once let up …’,MGG, 142.
261: ‘Shortly afterwards, the CIA agent David Atlee Phillips …’, Von Tunzelmann, Red Heat, 207.
261: ‘put my people in CIA to work on this ...’, Dulles, ‘Our Spy-Boss Who Loved Bond’, Life, 28 August 1966.
262: ‘obsessed by Ian’s books’, AF to CE, 16 February 1964, Amory, 336.
262: the President’s favourite books …, Hugh Sidey, ‘The President’s Voracious Reading Habits’, Life, 17 March 1961.
1961–2: The Spy Who Loved Me; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
263: ‘There were moments …’, Plomer, Encounter.
263: ‘I’m the world’s authority on giving up smoking …’, TB, 154—161.
264: ‘that nagging sense of morning guilt…’, TB, 1–2.
264: ‘Ian had a high fever and was fearfully cross …’, AF to EW, 4 February 1961, Amory, 278
264: ‘Annie looking exhausted …’, NC Diary, 29 January 1961, 463.
265: ‘taken against Jamaica in a big way …’, NC Letters, 23 December 1960, 673.
265: ‘Jamaica’s going to go to the dogs …’, Karen Schleifer interview, 21 June 2013.
265: ‘Lord Brownlow imported a farm manageress …’, AF to EW, 4 February 1961, Amory, 279.
266: ‘from drabness, fustiness, snobbery …’, SLM, 3.
266: ‘smoking and drinking, phenobarbital…’, SLM ,67.
266: ‘from the grimy sallowness that had been the badge of my London life ….’, SLM, 4.
267: ‘started brilliantly’, NC Diary, 8 April 1962, 503.
267: ‘The single lamentable lapse …’, Bryce, 105.
267: ‘dreary’ chancellor…, James Bond: the Man and his World, 187.
267: ‘the High-Stakes Gambling Scene …’, Time, 13 April 1962.
267: ‘doing my best to reverse this foolish gesture …’, AF to EW, 20 April 1962, Amory, 306.
267: ‘our pornography fund.’, letter to EW, 2 August 1962, Amory, 314.
268: ‘I am glad to say that while the iron crab …’, Pearson, 391.
268: ‘the claws of “the iron crab” tightened around his heart…’, Quennell, Wanton Chase, 156.
268: ‘losing the vices that were so much part of his ruthless …’, TB, 45.
268: ‘and then, slightly drunk, go to bed …’, MSS, 101.
269: ‘a super-abundancy of alcohol in the blood-stream.’, MSS, 248.
269: ‘Bond was aching for a drink’, MSS, 256.
269: he needs three drinks to her one., MSS, 327.
269: ‘chain-smoking’, MSS, 45.
270: ‘by the far the best novel…’, Cinema Retro Magazine, ‘Movie Classics Special Edition’, no.4,22.
270: selling over 70,000 hardback copies …, Benson, James Bond Bedside Companion, 24.
270: ‘It is better plotted and retains its insane grip ...’, Observer, 31 March 1963.
270: ‘the 20th century vogue of realism ...’, LA Times, 25 August 1963.
270: ‘the miracle of the latest German export figures’, MSS, 323.
270: ‘the new African States.’, MSS, 113.
270: ‘all true and it was all about a great Navy …’, MSS, 257.
271: Broccoli had tried unsuccessfully for the same option … , Broccoli, Snow Melts, 126.
272: ‘a ludicrous character, Fu Manchu with hooks.’, Tashchen, 31.
272: ‘Ian attended several of our meetings…’, Broccoli, Snow Melts, 159.
273: ‘had everything we were looking for.’, Broccoli, Snow Melts, 174.
273: Patrick McGoohan and James Fox refused the role …, Duncan, The James Bond Archives, 32.
273: ‘stage Englishness … no monocles, moustaches, bowler hats …’, Broccoli, Snow Melts, 159.
273: ‘I never got introduced to Fleming …’, BBC Scene by Scene, quoted in Cinema Retro, ‘Movie Classics Special Edition’, 132.
274: ‘the cheap self-assertiveness of young labour since the war.’, TB, 12.
274: ‘not quite the idea I had of Bond …’, Michael Denning, ‘Licensed to Look’, in Lindner, ed. The James Bond Phenomenon, 58
275: ‘Dear Ian, The answer to your suggestion is No… No…’, Duncan, The James Bond Archives, 34.
275: ‘If the first day’s shooting was any indication …’, Gleaner, 17 January 1962.
276: ‘kissing a strange man’, Marguerite Gordon interview, 21 January 2014.
276: ‘got the job because she owned the house …’, Cinema Retro.
277: ‘Sean’s got this terribl
e Scottish accent…’, Moxon unpublished memoir.
277: ‘didn’t do a tremendous amount during the Second World War …’, interview by Lee Pfeiffer, Cinema Retro, 31.
278: ‘very untidy and crude’, Cinema Retro, 50.
279: ‘a riot’, Chris Blackwell interview, 22 January 2012.
279: ‘The biggest problem is the “manana” attitude …’, Draxin, A Bond for Bond, 58–9.
280: ‘They were shooting a beach scene …’, AF to EW, 17 February 1962, Amory, 297–8.
280: ‘that beautiful girl with the long fair hair …’, MSS, 155.
280: ‘Together they were a joy to be with …’, Cinema Retro, 124.
281: ‘Filming has brought employment and publicity …’, Gleaner, 20 February 1962.
284: ‘a mother who shuts the door is no mother.’, Miller, Survey of Commonwealth Affairs, 341.
284: ‘More than anywhere else in the old colonial empire …’, Wallace, The British Caribbean, 217.
284: ‘All over the island there is now tip-toe expectancy …’, Gleaner, 4 August 1962.
285: ‘had twelve attendants and he was not allowed a valet’, AF to EW, 2 August 1962, Amory, 315.
285: ‘a Kingston gaily bedecked with flags ...’, Gleaner, 3 August 1962.
285: ‘the most amazing, tremendous reception.’, Fiona Aird interview, 20 February 2014.
286: ‘Boat Races, Swimming Races, Dress Parade …’, Gleaner, 2 August 1962.
287: ‘I felt good, elated …’, Pearl Flynn interview, 21 June 2013.
287: ‘at the time of Jamaican independence ...’, Judi Moxon Zakka interview, 18 January 2014.
287: ‘A people who have managed so successfully … ‘, Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica, 32.
288: ‘Jamaica stands between Castro and the Panama Canal.’, Gleaner, 30 June 1962.
288: ‘In asking for economic aid …’, Gleaner, 2 July 1962.
288: ‘The right road will have us all walk to …’, Gleaner, 2 February 1962.
288–9: ‘I thought in 1962, in view of my complexion …’, Chris Blackwell interview, 22 January 2014.
289: ‘It was an abominable occasion …’, AF to EW, 2 August 1962, Amory, 315.
289: Dr No sold 1.5 million copies …, Black, The Politics of James Bond, 96.
289: in 1963 the figure was 4,468,000., Lindner ed., The James Bond Phenomenon, 17.
1963–4: You Only Live Twice; The Man With The Golden Gun
290: Quote from IF, 64 radio interview by Rene MacColl.
290: ‘Watching his character deteriorate …’, IF to AF, undated 1962, Amory, 296.
291: ‘In the present twilight we are hurting each other …’, IF to AF, undated 1962, Amory, 296.
291: ‘regain some spirit, which, though you haven’t noticed it…’, IF to AF, no date, Amory, 303—4.
291: ‘I looked after him. Jamaica and me: we could have kept him alive.’, Blanche Blackwell interview, 17 April 2013.
292: ‘far more dangerous than barracuda or shark’, SS, 188.
293: ‘it was a mystery to his friends …’, SS, 185.
293: ‘When you see “Doctor No” …’, Gleaner, 10 February 1963.
294: ‘she had no contact with the present…’, AF to EW, 1 January 63, Amory, 320.
295: ‘You must touch to get the precise texture …’, Lycett, 412.
295: ‘Late at the office …’, YĽΓ, 19.
295: ‘It was three thirty …’, YLT, 27.
295: ‘patriotic sort of chap’, YLT, 23.
295: ‘He probably doesn’t think much of us …’, YLT, 36.
295: a now more or less valueless ally …’, YLT, 66.
295: “You have not only lost a great Empire ...’, YLT, 108–9
296: ‘Bond’s mission is aimed at ...’, New York Times, 22 August 1964.
296: ‘he had to admit to himself that his lungs were in a terrible state.’, YLT, 195–6.
297: ‘some of the old snap seems to be gone.’, The Times, 19 March 1964.
297: ‘Ian always was a death-wish Charlie.’, Lycett, 422.
297: ‘a man who lives as if he were going to die tomorrow ...’, YLT, 63.
297: he could not smoke in court… , AF to EW, 6 December 1963, Amory, 331.
297: Your vastly welcome decision was vastly welcome.’, Bryce, 134.
298: ‘The weather and the island were at their best…’, Bryce, 136.
299: ‘The last time the Commander came …’, Gleaner, 20 September 1964.
299: ‘But that’s suicide, sir!’, MGG, 27.
299: ‘letting the scented air …’, MGG, 82.
299: ‘dull and lacklustre’, MGG, 94.
299: ‘Beau Desert and Honeychile Rider …’, MGG, 45.
300: ‘not as beautiful as the north …’, MGG, 57.
300: ‘like sort of old Jamaica …’, MGG, 62–3.
300: ‘with those warm, wide smiles …’, Sunday Times, 8 April 1956.
300: ‘perhaps as the private house of a merchant…’, MGG, 59.
300: ‘The Thunderbird Hotel’, MGG, 51.
301: ‘Maroon Country’, MGG, 137.
301: ‘overplayed the slush fund approach.’, MGG, 138–40.
301: ‘It’ll almost certainly lead to trouble ...’, MGG, 140.
303: ‘no oxygen, dreadful humidity …’, EW from AF, 4 February 1964, Amory, 333.
303: ‘I loathe the tropics …’, AF to CE, 16 February 1964, Amory, 335–6.
303: ‘this gilded prison’, AF to Frances Donaldson, 16 February 1964, Amory, 334–5.
303: ‘It is painful to see Ian struggle …’, AF to HC, 17 February 1964, Amory, 336–7.
304: ‘obscene American publication called Playboy.’, AF to EW, 22 February 1964, Amory, 338.
304: ‘piles of over-decorated native ware.’, MGG, 42.
304: ‘big tax concessions that Jamaica gave’, MGG, 86.
304: If the hotel got off the ground … ‘, MGG, 87.
305: ‘Ian was as bored as me …’, AF to Peter Quennell, 5 March 1964, Amory, 339.
306: ‘I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.’, YLT, 273.
306: ‘He gave the impression of not being able to get out of bed …’, Winston Stona interview, 23 June 2013.
306: ‘I’ve always had one foot…’, Chancellor,James Bond: the Man and his World, 231.
306: ‘gloomy, fragile figure’, Lycett, 437.
306: ‘nothing nice or funny is happening.’, AF to EW, 19 June 1964, Amory, 342.
306: ‘When his health was no longer good …’, Plomer, Encounter.
307: ‘very shaky, his normally brick-red complexion …’, Ross, Coastwise Lights, 197.
307: ‘Ian’s life from now on hangs on a thread …’, AF to John and Fionn Morgan, 8 August 1964, Amory, 349.
307: ‘a great friend of Jamaica …’, Gleaner, 15 August 64.
308: Independence has not improved the island …’, AF to EW, 4 February 1964, Amory, 333.
308: ‘The Brownlows are very unpopular …’, AF to EW, 22 February 1964, Amory 338.
308: ‘Although by nature gentle, indolent…’, Coward, Complete Short Stories, 32.
309: ‘graduate from Edinburgh.’, MGG, 172.
309: ‘regularly as clockwork’, Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica, 11.
309: ‘that a good man was after a bad man in the swamp.’, MGG, 172–3.
310: ‘For all her new-found “Independence” …’, MGG, 45.
310: ‘She had gained her Independence …’, Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica, 11.
Epilogue: Goldeneye Since Fleming
312: ‘I loved him and am angry with him …’, Pearson notes, NC interview, 22 May 1965. Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library Pearson J. Mss.
313: ‘It is hard to exaggerate the importance of the death of Ian Fleming to Ann …’, Amory, 353.
313: ‘quite intimidating. Very funny …’, Mark Amory interview, 27 September 2013.
313: ‘potent
ially brilliant’, Raymond O’Neill interview, 13 May 2013.
314: ‘he was not so oversexed as James Bond.’, AF to EW, 12 March 1963, Amory, 323.
314: ‘an extraordinary figure …’, Mark Amory interview, 27 September 2013.
314: ‘talking all the trendy nonsense …’, AF to Clarissa Avon, 27 February 1969, Amory, 393.
314: ‘According to his girlfriend since Oxford, Rachel Fletcher …’, Rachel Fletcher interview, 31 March 2014.
314: ‘A magical place …’, Frances Charteris interview, 12 April 2014.
315: ‘Permanent nervous gastritis …’, AF to Leigh Fermor, 24 October 1976, Amory, 416.
315: ‘This was a blow so stunning…’, Amory, 353.
316: ‘In naval terms she was something of a privateer …’, Huth, Well-Remembered Friends, 78.
316: ‘searing heat and a calypso steel band.’, Moore, Roger Moore as James Bond, 62.
316: ‘I just remember the music and the warmth …’, Duncan, The James Bond Archives, 226.
317: ‘Ross Kananga, the alligator specialist and handler ...’, Moore, Roger Moore as James Bond, 43.
317: ‘a great sense of awe ...’, Roger Moore email interview, 17 February 2014.
317: ‘I’d just paid him seventy thousand pounds …’, Chris Blackwell interview, 23 June 2013.
320: ‘We were looking forward to a better Jamaica …’, Pearl Flynn interview, 21 June 2013.
320: ‘If you speak to most older Jamaicans …’, Chris Blackwell interview, 8 July 2013.
320: ‘the worst thing that could have happened to Jamaicans …’, Thomson, Dead Yard, 233.
320: ‘That wasn’t altogether a completely happy time …’, Cinema Retro.
321: ‘full of submerged self-parody.’, Observer, 8 October 1962.
Select Bibliography
Ian Fleming (all Jonathan Cape, London)
Fiction
Casino Royale, 1953
Live and Let Die, 1954
Moonraker, 1955
Diamonds are Forever, 1956
From Russia, with Love, 1957
Dr No, 1958
Goldfinger, 1959
For Your Eyes Only, 1960
Thunderball (based on a film treatment by K. McClory, J. Whittingham and Ian Fleming), 1961
The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 1963
You Only Live Twice, 1964
Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, 1964
The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965
Octopussy, 1966