GOLDFINGER | The Movie That Made James Bond
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- Goldfinger is the James Bond movie that defined the series and cemented Sean Connery as James Bond 007. This Goldfinger video essay explores the making of Goldfinger, and analyses how this movie took James Bond from being a popular British spy series into a global cinematic sensation. Because Goldfinger is more than a James Bond movie - it is THE James Bond movie, and 60 years after it was made it continues to have an impact on cinema and popular culture.
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🎞️ Goldfinger is a 1964 spy film starring Sean Connery as James Bond 007. It is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film's plot has Bond investigating gold smuggling by Auric Goldfinger and eventually uncovering Goldfinger's plans to contaminate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox. 🎞️
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00:00 - Introduction
03:20 - From Fleming to Film
09:45 - Goldfinger pre-credits scene
12:44 - Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger
14:18 - Felix, Miami, and the golden girl
18:37 - Q and the DB5
21:41 - Gert Frobe's Goldfinger
26:22 - Switzerland
28:43 - 'No, Mr Bond I expect you to die!'
30:55 - Kentucky blues
34:37 - The Fort Knox plot
36:20 - Honor Blackman's P*ssy Galore
40:46 - Operation Grandslam
44:49 - James Bond will return
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The Making of Goldfinger - Blu-ray special feature
The Goldfinger Phenomenon - Blu-ray special feature
Goldfinger - Blu-ray commentary
Production Notes - Goldfinger - www.mi6-hq.com/sections/movie...
Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films, by Matthew Field and Ajay Chowdhury, 2018.
Scripting 007 - Behind the writing of the James Bond movies, by Clement Feutry, 2024: www.commander007.net/2024/scr...
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1967 Interview with Sean Connery on his James Bond films, Historic Films Stock Footage Archive - • 1967 INTERVIEW WITH SE...
The Sound of 007, Amazon Prime documentary
1965 : James Bond à Paris | Pathé Journal - • 1965 : James Bond à Pa...
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Never read one of Bond books, yet have seen all the movies.!!!!! Excellent, Superb Powerful PowerHouse Exhilarating Adventurous Mysterious!!!!! Great Gadgets!!!!!!
The only True James Bond is Sean O’Connor❤
The short one-piece romper suit that you like so much - it comes from the book Casino Royale. I've no idea why Fleming was so attached to the thing, but gives it much more than a passing mention in that book.
That smile on Pierce Brosnan when he says "The naked lady covered in gold pain ... life changed for me."
Pierce is the GOAT
Ya that was a little too much lol
His Goldeneye was also fantastic. For me, the Best Bond movies were Goldfinger, Thunderball, and Goldeneye.
Talk about "The Midas Touch"...
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I saw this in 1964 when it came out. I was 12, and it looked astonishing. Straight after, I read all the books. Goldfinger was my favourite book, by far, and I've read it multiple times. The movie (Goldfinger) is my all-time favourite Bond. (Also, by far). About 11 years after the movie came out, i bought a DB6 Aston. Looking back, it was my favourite car of all time. (By far). I sold it in 1976 for a low price. - I so regret that.
Pierce Brosnan was also a great Bond but the scripts had become ludicrous.
Brilliant that you got an Aston! They were much cheaper back in the day - but still a shame to have sold it.
@NoosaHeads.....Why did you buy the Aston-Martin DB6? It wasn't used in Goldfinger! In fact, the actual Aston-Martin used in Goldfinger was really a DB4 with 'modifications' and 'badged up' as a DB5. [Aston-Martin were still a couple of months' away from finalising the DB5 ready for its official launch].
Having said all that, the DB6 - whilst not a commercial success [in fact, it performed quite poorly in terms of sales] was a much more refined car than either the DB4 or DB5. Sadly, it signified the last in Aston-Martin's 'DB' series.
Goldfinger was the first Bond film with all the iconic elements.
The credits, music, car, gadgets, women etc.
You are missing a key point about the car crushing scene - that was a 1964 Lincoln Continental. At the time of the film, this was one of the most desirable and high profile luxury cars available. Almost considered a work of art. The point of scene is to highlight Goldfinger's wealth and callous behavior, specifically his willingness to part with something so great so easily. It's to make it clear that if he can do that, he can anything i.e. kill 40,000 people in his scheme. It's to make him look more dangerous. Allegedly, some of the film crew cried when they watched the car being crushed.
I felt the same way when I saw that car being crushed. Has to be one of the most beautiful vehicles ever made.
Does anyone know what his brand of cigarettes were. I'd hazard a guess that they were either Dunhill, Piccadilly or Peter Stuyvesant!
@@glenfordburrell1076 Piccadilly when in Britain, Peter Stuyvesant when in America, naturally.
A great video!
it is also the scene they showed at the Oscars when Goldfinger won for best sound. The author of this piece misses several things and this is one of them. This is called letting the film breathe' and was as pointed out here an example of the callous disregard Goldfinger had for others,
Love how they dropped 6,000 lb of Lincoln Continental, gold and dead gangster into a 1/4 ton Ranchero.
*slaps roof - "This baby can defy physics"
Not just a half ton Ranchero but a falcon Ranchero and a million dollars worth of gold
The engine was taken out before crushing it
Must have a hell of a suspension!
That Ranchero and the Lincoln are worth the move alone! What about that 1962 Country Squire Galaxie?? Maybe even better! Set the stage for super beautiful cutting edge American cars. Kind of petered off after this movie.
The golden girl, the Aston Martin, and Shirley's Bassey's theme song somehow made you forget all the film's faults. . . .
How can anyone not be excited with the music screams and Shirley sings the song. Every time I hear that song, I get goosebumps.
My parents took me to the theater when the movie came out. I also had a battery powered Aston Martin decked out like this one. It would stop, fire the machine guns and pop up the rear shield. You could push the antenna down and change the license plate. There was a small lever to trigger the ejection seat which would shoot a human figure through the roof. Wish I still had it. And those extras at Fort Knox were the actual soldiers stationed at the army base of Fort Knox.
arguably--I just was at the Brimfield antique show and someone had that car you mentioned--that particular David Brown 6 Aston Martin was one of the most popular movie vehicles rendered in various small scales. Just finding a Corgi one with the little red passenger still in it is a treat. I can't think of too many other movie cars replicated in a variety of scales and sizes.
This is perhaps the best “Goldfinger” review I have seen. Very well done!
RE: Solo death scene. You have to remember back in 1964 the Lincoln Continental was arguably the apex car in America...a 1961 version was President Kennedy's parade limousine. In 1963 Kennedy was assassinated in it. That's why the long lingering shot of the car just before the crane claws descend and destroy it. At the time people would have thought, ”Wow….what a cool Lincoln.” The crushing of this car in 1964 had an impact on the screen for people of that period……a younger, later audience would just see a regular car and not at all see what the fuss is about. Imagine if in some later Bond movie they did the same thing with the DB5… lingering shot…then ripped and crushed ….now you would get it.
Thanks for watching! By all accounts the guy operating the crusher for the movie was absolutely devastated to be doing it, and the folks in the scrap yard just thought the film-makers were crazy.
Definitely a shock factor element to destroying such an iconic car (e.g. the DB5 getting blown up in Skyfall or crashing the DBS in Casino Royale), as well as the point about how Goldfinger is just so ridiculously wealthy that he doesn't think twice about destroying such a car just to dispose of a body. But I still think 5 minutes is far too long for the scene to run, especially when it actually has zero bearing on the story or characters.
@@PentexProductions Yeah, your probably right about the scene being too long... I think also of "The French Connection" where they linger on the very cool at the time Lincoln Mark III, and then rip it apart, upholstery and all, looking for drugs.... ouch!... lol.
I completely agree with you about "Goldfinger" being two parts...the great 1st part, that we all think about....and the slow 2nd part...that absolutely, positively should have been tightened up. Still for me, when I hear those first few bars of music... I think adventure, girls, and feel I should be headed to JFK airport to go somewhere.
As for the length of time spent on the taking of Fort Knox...i think that's for the audience's benefit. they wonder who is going to save the day, but they watch scene after scene of soldiers getting knocked out. Had there only been one or two scenes, it would be easy to believe there had to be another base or barracks location full of troops ready to go if only they were called out. Showing details like how they blow the gate enforce the notion Goldfinger has set this up to be a cake-walk, that there really is no one to stop him brazingly destroying America's economy.
It's even close to the same color of the JFK limo.
Connerys panic in the laser scene is in part real
the way they pulled it off is by having a guy with a blowtorch under the table
the laser is an effect, but that blue flame cutting through the metal and getting close to Bonds groin is real
Gives a new meaning to the idea of 'burning loins.'
Nobody said acting was easy. Hey, helped Connery put on that nice sheen of nervous sweat too.
Let's all give some credit to the marvellous German actor Gert Fröbe, who played one of the finest 007-villains.
I was 5 when gold finger came out, the Beatles were blasting over the radio, huge impact in my hometown of Boston, James Bond, the Beatles, batman and the munsters. I wanna go back for a do over.
32:21 Never forget: Goldfinger got that entire room remodeled for that ONE (1) meeting.
Deltonide! At dawn the flying circus of my personal pilot, Miss Poosie Galore will *shhpraaay* it into ze AT-moe-sss-fee-AH!!
I actually had a whole bit of my script about this that I cut for length! I like to imagine all of Goldfinger's henchmen having to put in a shift to plant all the little trees on the model, and whether or not he disposed of the architect who had to install the giant rotating wall panel with a massive photo of Fort Knox on the back.
A meeting that was almost entirely pointless because
1. He kills everyone in the room that learns of the plan
2. That wasn’t even THE PLAN
@@votekyle3000 Within the logic of the story, I think it makes perfect sense. Goldfinger promised each of the gangsters $1 million gold bullion each, and then offered them $10 million if they waited another day for his "heist" to be successful. Even though his plot was more subtle than a "simple" heist, playing into gangster logic and language was a way to lull them into a false sense of security, along with gathering them in one place so he could "take care of them" efficiently. Therefore, he wouldn't have to pay them anything.for their services, which would make Operation Grand Slam possible. Kind of like the way another nouveau riche golf cheat treats his factotums (certainly his lawyers), but less deadly since he just doesn't pay them
I'm also willing to bet that a rumpus room retrofitted as a large gas chamber would have cost less than $1 million 60 years ago... less than paying one gangster, and already mere pocket change for Goldfinger.
He may have used the elaborate Fort Knox model to convince the Chinese to give him the bomb.
60 years on, it`s STILL the best Bond of them all. Excellent, just excellent.
I like it and Thunderball.
It's undoubtedly the most iconic, but as a fan of both the movies and Ian Fleming novels, I say the best Bond is From Russia with Love.
FRWL is my second favorite. More in the mold of a Hitchcock film with the excellent Orient Express and chopper chase sequences that were obviously inspired y 'North by Northwest'. @@dr.juerdotitsgo5119
1964, The Beatles and Beatle mania and James Bond, it was the decade of British music and movie culture.
Wasn't that the year that they stopped food rationing in the U.K?
@@billolsen4360No, rationing stopped in 1953.
...the end of the Rule by Received Pronunciation...
What about dalekmania for sci-fi from doctor who?
Dean Martin knocked the Beatles out of #1in August 1964.
Absolutely agree ! Shirley Basseys Golfinger theme is the GOAT of all Bond themes. Also Golfinger is my personal favorite.
Welcome back my friend. We’ve missed you.
Sorry it's been a while - this was supposed to have been finished two weeks ago!
"No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!" is THE iconic baddie line in all of the series. Love it.
I call GF the Citizen Kane of action flicks. A total game-changer for many reasons.
Re: voice actors. James Earl Jones was NOT credited or billed on the original release of Star Wars in 1977. His credit was added retroactively on the revised versions.
That's true, but it was his choice not to be credited at first, not that of the filmmakers, who planned to credit him because that was the practice at the time.
I could have phrased it more clearly in the video, but the point was to use another example of a major role being portrayed by a voice and physical actor, both of whom were (eventually) credited, so as to illustrate how that was not the way voice actors were treated in the 60s.
as far as the barn scene with Pussy, you must remember this: in a few short hours the attack would begin and tens of thousands would die. He had no other alternatives rather than to bring her to the right side, and the forced seduction worked.
It was not a 'romantic encounter'. It was a primal exchange between to apex predators, and it worked. You may not like it, it probably wouldn't see the light of day in modern PC cinema, but as a plot device it worked.
She discovered another side of herself and the day was saved. Seeing it in any other prism is, well, silly. This wasn't a 'rom-com' affair. It was life or death.
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Timothy Dalton’s first “Bond, James Bond,” in “The Living Daylights,” is also one of the best uses of the line.
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TImothy Dalton is criminally underrated.
@@dr2759 he got a lousy script too.
It is one of those things, you had to be there. In 1964, Goldfinger was a world cultural phenomenon. 007 was everywhere. If you were a high school boy (I was), you wanted to grow up and be a cool spy just like Bond.
The Man From UNCLE came along
a year later ? Thanks to Bond.?
Solo and Kuryakin were just as cool...!
The "unnecessary" scenes are what move Goldfinger from spy flick to epic, the Kentucky scenes actually tell a story & enrich character relationships. You also miss the point of 007's seduction of Pussy, he converts her to the good guys, Blackman acknowledged Connery as sexiest man alive & it plays that way onscreen, Galore is adult woman who ultimately consents, or, as Rigg says in The Assassination Bureau when her character lets her defenses down, "Why not? Surrender is no defeat. For a woman." Agency, not passive victims.
I rate Goldfinger as the best James Bond film ever, Connery & his supporting cast made more than just a good film they made Magic
Gold, you might say!
@@PentexProductions Happy Saturday, yes Goldfinger set the "Gold Standard" for Bond films!
I would say Goldfinger is my favourite Bond film, or perhaps the one I would say had the biggest influence on the Bond series. It set the tone for the franchise, and defined all the tropes and elements that make a Bond film great. It’s both dated and timeless, which means it can appeal to lots of different audiences.
Goldfinger and Moonraker just entertain you to escape. My 2 favorite Bonds.
I couldn't disagree more about the scenes set in Kentucky. For one thing the background score kept the process of eliminating Solo moving right along. The bailing of his body inside that car further illustrated Goldfinger's conscienceless villainy.
Goldfinger did everything right and its to this day incredible. This movie is a masterpiece
The corrective rape?
Great analysis and one of my all time great Bond movies...On a side note, I am sad that today, some people cannot seem to put history into the context of the times...
I've always been partial to 'From Russia with Love' but you can't deny Goldfinger's spot at the top
FRWL is an exception, it's more of a feature-length chase film, with much of it taken from Hitchcock's North By Northwest, only across Europe>U.S.
FRWL is a weird one for me. It’s stuck in this odd middle ground between Dr. No and Goldfinger where it’s not the first time but the series hasn’t hit it’s stride quite yet. In some ways it feels like a Hitchcock thriller which just so happens to star James Bond.
At the very least, I think Goldfinger had a better impact on the series as a whole.
FRWL is my favourite Connery Bond, but it's more of a classic spy movie than a true 'James Bond' movie, because they hadn't quite worked out the Bond formula. Goldfinger established what a Bond movie was forever, and that's why I love it.
Yeah. From Russia With Love is pretty amazing, but Goldfinger just +1 on it. It's more polished.
From Russia With Love is my favorite too. It's a little more staid and has aged better.
Goldfinger was the first James Bond movie I watched, in 2005. Myself and my brother were fans of Daniel Craig’s past work and when we heard he was cast as James Bond we decided to watch all the previous movies to be prepared for Casino Royale. We didn’t know the order and when we went to the rental shop we picked Goldfinger first because we knew it was the most famous and just assumed it was the first. We were obviously wrong, but it wasn’t a bad start!
A great place to start! Every scene you're like 'oh THAT'S what that's from!'
What a golden treat to come home to!
Goldfinger is definitely among the greatest, even more than From Russia With Love in my eyes, and that says a lot about its quality.
Bond wore a seagull on his head, not a duck. Theodore's last name is "bye-KELL".
Its good to have you back, and yes i can definitely consider goldfinger to be the high standard for the rest of the bond films to follow and seeing browsen and creig hold goldfinger in very high remarks always makes me proud to be a bond fan and why i fell in love with this franchise to start with.
Just the opening - Connery in a wet suit, blowing shit up, then taking off to reveal a white tuxedo, takes out a carnation, puts it in his lapel, enters a bar and lights up a smoke. I mean who wouldn't want to be that guy? So many great lines "do you expect me to talk? No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!!" . And come on - "Pussy Galores flying circus"?
Easily. Hands down. By a mile - the best Bond film.
"Oh, nothing, Mr. Bond. I own the club."
@@Finarphin "I'd say it's a 30 year old fine, indifferently blended. With an overdose of bonbois!"
Fun Fact Shirely Basssey passed out after finishing the final take of goldfinger because of how long she had to hold the final note
Apparently she took her bra off while recording to free up her lungs for the final notes!
Never heard that, but know that Tom Jones passed out as he sang Thunderball
@@jamesvaughan1590 Didn't Tom remove his bra like Shirley?
Do you expect me to talk Goldfinger ?
No Mr. Bond I expect you to die.
Best line ever.
Sean Connery was literally the gold!
He was the perfect actor for that role. Can you imagine anyone else?
The pre-credits sequences are like a Bond movie we never get to see....
Goldfinger had a great theme song, the music is great then the gal singing is nothing short of terrific..... but Paul McCartney's "Live and let die" was the greatest of them all, hands down.
Well put together review. I’ll have to take issue with your critique of the end of the movie, which was designed to show the genius in the detail Goldfinger created to pull off his plan… and John Barry’s music was absolutely perfect and highly creative during those scenes which both captured a feel of military precision and built suspense for the finale. It was a very conscious decision for the music of Bond movies to play a major role… much as John Williams’ did for the Star Wars franchise.
10:21 Seagull! Not a duck!
I was 10 years old when I saw Goldfinger, my cousin who was a year younger, invited me to join him at the movies. My aunt dropped us at the theater. I had no knowledge of Bond movies. To this day, no movie has had the same impact on me as Goldfinger.
I've seen a lot of movies, and I don't think any movie had more anticipation than Goldfinger. And it delivered.
Collins did such a great job revoicing Froebe that I never noticed until it was pointed out in some dvd bonus material, and being German myself, I've known Froebe's original voice from a lot of his movies.
I never noticed as well. I am still kind of not convinced. That's how good of a job he did.
I disagree with your view that the car crushing scene was superfluous. At the time most cinema goers were amazed that such a business existed. It added to how ruthless Goldfinger was in disposing of his enemies leaving no trace.
When the girl was covered in gold, the villain was metaphorically giving Bond the finger …the Goldfinger!
I totally disagree that the Kentucky sequences do not fit. I think they are absolutely a work of art. The movie needed to slow down an bit to let us catch our breaths and to explain the totality of the plan. The car crushing scene to me was one of the most memorable. As was already stated by another commenter, this scene expressed Goldfinger's wealth, and his willingness to do whatever is needed to succeed. The car crush was one of my favorite scenes. As a 14 year old, I thought it was so cool, and that is one of the purposes of the scene. It kept me engaged.
Best music, best scenes, best dialog, best cinematography, and best plot. Yep
This was my favorite bond movie of all time too. I love the scene when Pussy Galore's airplanes fly over fort knox to distribute the sleeping gas, but all soldier units "pass out" and "fall in unison" just prior to Pussy's planes flying over! Once you see this you can never unsee this.
Goldfinger is and will still the iconic James Bond movie forever. No doubt about that. I adore too the Bond videos on this channel.
Goldfinger and the spy who loved me go hand in hand as the two most iconic James Bond movie... But I think the spy who loved me is perhaps even more iconic than Goldfinger
"..." + GoldenEye + Casino Royale 📽
In 1994 Creation Entertainment hosted what was supposed to be the first annual James Bond convention (turned out to be the only one) in Los Angles. They also had a screening of the 30th anniversary of Goldfinger with a brand new print. John Stears was the special guest and before the movie screened, a clip introducing Pierce Brosnan as the new Bond. I got to meet Peter Hunt, Richard Kiel, John Stears and Martine Beswick to name a few. It was where I also got to meet Lee Pfeiffer whom I purchased my one sheets of Goldfinger and Thunderball. They still hang in my office. Great commentary on the films successes and flaws.
I'm Curious No Mention Of Bond Car In You Visits Or New York To See Brosnan,Isabella,Desmond Llewellyn Goldeneye Junket Premier.And Cast Interviews.Incredible Fan.
@@robertroberto2487 I've seen the various cars several times. The Lotus Esprit, the Original effects DB5 (that went missing), the Peterson Museum exhibit, and a walk around of the Restored DB5 "touring car" that sold for 4.6 million. I've also been to screenings of the films in Los Angeles with Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson and Marc Foster
Bond, as laser nears his crotch: *"Don't you want me to talk?"*
Goldfinger: *"No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die!"* Some of the greatest lines in the whole Bond series.
in the history of cinema
Your quote is wrong. Bond says "do you expect me to talk?"
@@RobertR3750 let's have a Vesper and cheers
Ian Fleming Suggested Car To Broccoli,Saltzman,"This Would Make A Marvelous Toy" (Corgi)
14:43 I always used to think that Felix Lighter was a code name….kind of like how some people think James Bond is a code name used by several different men all doing essentially the same job. 22:00 I don’t know- I knew him before I ever saw Goldfinger, as the German coffee pot sergeant in The Longest Day, which funnily enough also featured Sean Connery in a minor role! 😂
Goldfinger was a really nice movie. The villanous plan was quite convincing and clever and the crazy action scenes typical of the day were very entertaining.
1964 was amazing. I remember the filming at the Fountainbleu Hotel as I grew up in Miami Beach and the Beatles arrival in the US
The Beatles and Cassius Clay -
Muhammad Ali - were in Miami
at the same time. !
Miami Beach Rhumba !😎
so lucky to see them all at the cinema dude - epic
The car crushing scene is fairly dark if think about the fact there's a body in the car. All you have are the mechanical noises of the crane and crusher. Its a pretty serious scene.
I got to sit in that helicopter high in the Swiss amps and sip a cappuccino with 007 foam. What a great circling for me as they were the films that I fell I love as a small child.
Piz Gloria is like a pilgrimage for Bond fans.
Living in Rome these days but I grew up in Kentucky, it’s nice to see the landscape of my youth and having been to Switzerland, the UK etc, I think it holds its own, at least in my mind.
43:17 Harold Sakata, Oddjob, had his hand burned by the fireworks during the fight scene inside Fort Knox. A testament of how tough he was, he continued acting despite the pain being inflicted on his hand.
Did You Know In Pinewood Studio Ian Fleming Confronted That Sean Connery Had No Golf Experience. Saltzman Intervention Helped Him.
Sad Fleming passed before the movie came out He would have loved it
He was so young.
@@usedscar: Fleming is reputed to have drank heavily and smoked sixty cigarettes a day.
Back in the summer of 1972 Golfinger was shown in movie theaters along with Dr. No and FRWL. Then about two months later Goldfinger made it's network television debut on ABC.
I'm 76 yrs old and remember the releases of these films. Dr. No was the film that introduced and "made" James Bond; Goldfinger was released to theatres AFTER Conerry and Ursula Andress had made the franchise worth following.
At 5:27, the commentary says that Eon wanted the movies to be more fantastical than the novels. However, in the novel, Goldfinger actually intends to steal the gold in Ft Knox. The movie dismisses this as a practical impossibility, and instead has Goldfinger planning to irradiate the gold with a small, dirty nuclear device. This makes Goldfinger the only Bond film with a more "realistic" plot point than the novel it's based on.
@12:44 In the movie the door SLAM! edited precisely to cue in the Goldfinger title song.
@35:26 A nuclear ‘device’. Nuclear Bombs were big news around that time in the 1960’s (even used in Doctor Who). The mention of a Nuclear Weapon always grabbed the attention or interest of the paying public, as the use of Atomic bombs were still fresh in the memories of the world.
Dont leave out Gert Frobe's hilarious take on Goldfinger
Great analysis, but as a kid the 5 min montage of taking over fort Knox was one my favorite moments and to this date I am fond of it.
What a fantastic analysis of one of my favourite films.
From Russia With Love made the franchise. Still the best and most “realistic”
That was a good one to
True.
DR NO and Thunder Ball were my favorites.
Hey Pentex!
Another great production. Although it is not my favourite Bond, I always liked it for all of those great moments and "firsts" in the series.
Cheers!
Thank you! So many firsts in this one.
Excellent, deep-focus color photography combined with great locations!
My Dad and I would go to a movie while Mom was playing bingo on Saturday evenings. We saw a re-run of Goldfinger at a local cinema. (Yeah, re-runs were a thing in the 70s.) Anyway, we go to pick up Mom and she asks Dad what we did for the evening. To which he replied: "Oh, gambling, fights, women. The usual fare. Right son?" The only thing that I was lacking for what happened next was popcorn.
A superlative essay. Well done!
The Rock is still my favourite Bond movie, you know I’m right hehe.
The Rock was the last Bond movie!
The Rock is not a Bond film. Sean Connery may have starred in the first six Bond films and this film.
@@user-ce6pp6rs4n it’s a joke you have missed, maybe look back through earlier vids posted by this channel and you will get it.
@@user-ce6pp6rs4n swoosh, that was the sound of my comment going over your head.
@@abigailslade3824 just the opposite, your comment got a comment from me that you don't like because it shows how unfunny and ignorant you are.
My dad told me he saw Goldfinger in the theater, and when Blackman delivers her line, "My name is Pussy Galore" the audience laughed so loudly and for so long that he couldn't hear the next several minutes of the film. It would die away only for someone to say, "Pussy Galore!" and the crowd would be roaring again. He didn't know what really happened in the next several scenes until the film was shown on television.
Why are they laughing my little sister asked. 😮
I enjoy the sequences where we see the Flying Circus spread the gas through the air. My only argument is that the soldiers fall down too quickly. If they were being gassed, they would succumb more slowly. And Goldfinger’s men driving to Fort Knox and setting up the explosives, etc. is a great sequence. Movies back then took their time in developing plot points. Perhaps you’re too used to today’s films where everything has to have fast-paced editing.
I think all those sequences are fine. They only thing i dislike is that Pussy changes her mind, informs the army and somehow swaps out the gas (did she have to empty the canisters ?) and we just jump ahead not seeing how any bit of it came about.
I still think From Russia With Love is the best. Dam good story and really good acting by all the cast.❤❤
I still like Thunderball, it’s the best.
Thunderball has moments. “She just dead”. Great line
Sean Connery always my Goat 🐐
This movie pretty much created the Bondmania that lasted until Sean left the role James Bond at his most popular if only Ian Fleming lived to see it
I'm a golf teacher and have never read the book, now i must, the only book i read is "The spy who loved me " it takes place in a cabin in the woods, the whole book is in the cabin in the woods and outside around the cabin, it was not what i expected.
The Spy Who Loved Me is quite a bit different than the other books.
Actually, it was a motel. It's told from the viewpoint of a woman who falls for Bond.
@@RobertR3750 well i read it many years ago, but it was focused just on that area right ?, i mean no exotic locations and grand casinos etc.
@@user-gx2yy1df6f The motel is the focus in the last half of the book. The first half talks about the woman's life, from being a girl born in Canada to completing her education in England, and her first two sexual experiences, experiences which prompted her to move to the U.S.
@@RobertR3750 I never throw away books, i'm sure i still got it somewhere , i'm gonna read it again, it's a first edition paperback.
Sean Connery will always be the best Bond actor!
Personal thing, of course, but for me, Goldfinger was the best.
James Bond 007 may be the world's most famous secret agent , but in 3 of the Connery films, From Russia with Love , Goldfinger and Thunderball , he's saved by the female lead .
Tatiana shots Rosa Klebb and saves Bond's life after they arrive in Venice and Pussy Galore saved Bond and the US military at Fort Knox by letting them know what Goldfinger's plan were. Domino also saves Bond's life in Thunderball ,she shots Emilio Largo with a spear gun during the fight on his yacht with James Bond. These "Bond girls" showed themselves to be very resourceful.
Actually the 007 counter was a small idea from harry saltzman, who instead of having it at 3 minutes he changed it to the 7 second mark. Which is another reason why goldfinger became a giant standard.
Excellent, just excellent review.
47 minutes of Pentex wooooooo!!
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Wow !! Shirley has REALLY got the hots for Sean..! Check out that look !!
I wonder if.......you know.....???🤔
good day when pentex has a new bond video
Good day for me too - it means I can get some sleep!
29:40 Honor Blackmon once said she had the most obscene name in the Bond canon, a claim which I imagine Lois Chiles would dispute.
The best of them all indeed.
28:39 'a chase around Pinewood studios'. Boring fact: the outdoor scenes at Goldfinger's compound were actually filmed in Switzerland, at the Pilatus aircraft plant in Stans, on Lake Lucerne.
The exterior scenes when he arrives in the day and is spying on the operations is indeed in Switzerland, but the chase itself where he crashes the DB5 was filmed around Pinewood Studios. One of the streets in the complex is now called Goldfinger Avenue - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goldfinger_Avenue_at_Pinewood_Studios.png
Goldfinger is so consequential because it was practically a sci-fi film... in a down-to-earth way - It doesn't have an ordinary scene in the entire film - I can't image how the 'water cooler' review conversations went in offices the next day! It had enough memorable plot/scenes, stunts, unusual names, gadgets and characters for 5 regular films of that time!
The producers should be commended for taking a huge financial gamble with a leap in budget from Dr. No and From Russia With Love. They could have just made another spy sequel but instead invested in a classic musical score, unusual stunts, sets and vehicles resulting in a stunning production.
Goldfinger not only changed the movies and the toy industry but the next few seasons of Television Shows substituted westerns for spies, superheroes, time-travel and outer space shows and more high-concept themes (including 'The Wild Wild West').
I wanted to talk about the impact it had on toys and tie-in marketing but couldn't really fit it in, which is a shame because Goldfinger walked so Star Wars could run in that space.
@@PentexProductions I've told people for years what you produced fantastically in this video...will share.
Thank you!
Goldfinger and Goldeneye were my favorites growing up. From Russia with Love and Living Daylights have become my favorites as an adult. By favorites I mean the ones I find myself watching most.
Since when have ducks been grey and had a beak!
It's a BLOODY seagull.
Ducks have bills( and I'm not talking about gas or electric)
I only recently saw this movie which was made the year I was born.
I must admit that I call it “Goldfinger” one day and “Goldmember” the next…