In Goldfinger, Honor Blackman played Pussy Galore, the skilled pilot who leads Goldfinger’s all-female flying team.
Pussy Galore is introduced as a confident professional connected to Auric Goldfinger’s plan to attack Fort Knox. Her group, Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus, is recruited to spread the nerve agent central to Goldfinger’s scheme. Blackman’s screen presence and martial-arts background helped make the character unusually capable among early Bond allies and adversaries.
Before Goldfinger, Blackman was widely known for playing Cathy Gale in the British television series The Avengers. That role’s reputation for toughness and judo training influenced the film’s decision to portray Galore as a judoka rather than a conventional glamorous accomplice.
The character’s name caused censorship concerns, especially in the United States. Promotional material sometimes used “Miss Galore” or “Goldfinger’s personal pilot,” although the film retained the original name. Blackman was 38 when Goldfinger was released, making her one of the older performers to play a major Bond woman.