Mr. Joshua Wain was a character who was first appeared on the 1961 Ian Fleming novel Thunderball and later mentioned as Dr. Wain in 1965 film adaptation of the same name.
Biography[]
He is the manager of Shrublands health farm in the south of England where James Bond and Count Lippe are his guests. His health farm's previous guests included M.
Later Bond is attacked by Count Lippe who turns up the power on the traction table in an attempt to kill him. He ultimately is saved by Patricia Fearing (the clinic's nurse, who is the love interest of Bond) when she returns.
After the incident Patricia and Dr. Wain, believe that Bond had accidentally bumped a switch causing the traction table to speed up.
In the novel, she pleads with Bond to remain silent on Mr. Wain's behalf feeling that it would damage their reputation if the other patients got word of the incident.
In the film, Patricia was much colder, rejecting Bond's advances until the incident occurs. At that point she leads him to the clinic's steam room and promptly asks him not to complain about it, as she would be fired by her manager. Bond responds that he would remain silent for a price. Fearing then joins Bond in the steam room, where the two undress and embrace.
Alternate continuities[]
In the 1983 movie Never Say Never Again, also adopted from the novel Thunderball, there is an unnamed doctor at Shrublands played by British actor Michael Medwin fulfilling the same role as Mr. Wain.
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