HIT AND RUN

There are those who will tell you that the archetypal Bond girl was, is and always will be Ursula Andress. She was, after all, the first to be immortalised on film — super-lithe in a white bikini on a Caribbean quai with a dagger strapped to a toned thigh as Sean Connery engaged in the kind of behaviour that would today see him hauled before the human resources department of MI6 before you could say #MeToo.

For many others, however, it’s a no-brainer: Tania Mallet in 1964’s . Here’s why. For a start, there’s the name of her