Sean Connery was usually a picture of sartorial elegance as Bond, but his entrance in Goldfinger left a lot to be desired. Emerging out of the sea in a skin-tight wetsuit with a fake seagull on his head, his sheepish expression made him look like a man who has just been stuck with the bill.

The bird in question was a somewhat sorry specimen, having been repeatedly dunked in the studio tank by director Guy Hamilton. “I should have done it again but we only had the one seagull,” he revealed earlier this year. “That to me is a cock-up...”