Roger Moore famously described his Man With the Golden Gun co-star as “a diseased sex maniac with unnatural lusts” due to his outrageous behaviour behind the scenes. On set, of course, it was business as usual, with a riotous array of sexual innuendos and a veteran screen legend flashing his ‘third nipple.’

Things were rather more troubling higher up, with writer Ian Fleming and producer Albert Broccoli both unhappy with the story. Published posthumously, it was Fleming’s final completed Bond…