20 Things You Didn't Know About Dr. No

7. She Does Not Yield

Sean Connery Dr No
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Credit for the first villainess not to be swayed into returning “to the side of right and virtue” by Double-0 Seven's charms often falls to Luciana Paluzzi's Fiona Volpe in Thunderball (1965); however, she was not the first.

When he discovers secretary, Miss Taro (Zena Marshall) listening at Pleydell-Smith's door, Double-0 Seven suspects that she is working for the other side.

She tries to lure Bond into a death trap at her home, but he turns the tables on her. Killing some time with her whilst he waits for her accomplice, Professor Dent to arrive, Double-0 Seven then bundles Miss Taro into a waiting police car so that he can have some alone time with the professor; in return, she spits in Bond’s eye.

An alluring, yet fiercely loyal agent of Dr. No, Miss Taro predates Fiona Volpe by several years and even lived to die another day (which Volpe did not).

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