The Golden Lady

The Golden Lady is a 1979 British thriller film directed by José Ramón Larraz and starring Christina World, June Chadwick, Suzanne Danielle and Desmond Llewelyn.

[2] Julia Hemingway, a British female mercenary, is hired by wealthy businessman Charlie Whitlock in order to help him eliminate the competition on the purchase of some oil fields in Saudi Arabia.

There the resemblance with Connery and Co abruptly ends, as a witless script drags the smugly non-charismatic principals from one feeble set-piece to the next, to culminate in an interminable duel between a helicopter and a motorcyclist.

If any credit is due at all, it should be shared equally by the Cockney hit-man who can recognise a Greek accent over the telephone, and the sound-mixer, who skilfully and obligingly suppresses deafening gunfire, disco music and the like whenever the characters want to explain the impenetrable plot to each other.

"[4] Variety wrote: "Hard to see much appeal in this cheapie, which features Danish newcomer Christina World as a distaff James Bond, but which will leave audiences neither shaken nor stirred.