Stumbling upon the desert retreat of reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte in Diamonds are Forever, 007 meets a pair of nubile bodyguards who proceed to kick his arse into next week.

Played by Lola Larson and Trina Parks, this nimble twosome prove more than a match for Sean Connery – until they fall in a swimming pool, that is, and end up being overcome as easily as a couple of two-year-olds. (Felix Leiter’s quip about Bond giving “breast stroke lessons” didn’t make it into the final cut.) In the Spanish-dubbed version, for reasons best known to the Spaniards, Thumper was called Pluto.