Sean Connery made Bond so elegant, well rounded, worldly and intelligent. Great movies.

The style....black tie dinner, majestic oak furnishings, bandy, cigars, Nazi gold... Connery looking sharp as ever, this is what Bond is all about.

Ah, classic Bond where enemies were just a higher class of criminal and not contemporaries of Cobra Commander.

I love when M takes a sniff of the bottle. I can just tell that he is thinking what the hell is this guy smelling that I can't!

"Colonel Smithers is giving the lecture, 007."

I always like the way Col. Smithers corrects himself when he said Goldfinger "poses" as a legitimate jeweler. Just to be fair to Mr. Goldfinger.

Miss these old British-style spy scenes. Old Brit officers from the SOE in WW2, classic RP British accents, upper class manners, no rude loudmouths. I wish they would make these films again (not necessarily Bond). So many good WW2 and postwar spy stories available.

A really economical scene. Exposition. Humour. Wine-snobbery. Britishness. Nazi gold. Great stuff.

Richard Vernon who played Colonel Smithers in this scene was 39 years old at the time. THIRTY NINE!!!

"Colonel Smithers is giving the lecture 007." 😆 This was the golden era of Bond.

I always loved that backward tracking shot all the way down the table and end up at the bowl of fruit

So glad that others love this scene as much as I do. It's as good as anything in the movie. Perfectly shot and perfectly acted. Also quite true to the novel, though naturally condensed. Lovely stuff. One of my all time favorite Bond moments.

Haha. M sniffing the brandy after 007 critiques it. Beautiful. Godspeed Sean. Thanks for these moments.

Fabulous scene! Beautifuly filmed and staged.Atmospheric and stylish.

The exasperated look on M's face at another of Bond's "know it all" comments is priceless.

There is nothing in this world more relaxing or rewarding after a long work day than a good cigar and two fingers of aged brandy.

When he grabbed the gold bar he looked like he was about to take it to the bookies 🤣

The actor who played the banker in this scene is the same actor who years later played a British central banker in Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

I like the fact that Connery's Bond doesn't push his expertise over the limit. Later Bonds (Roger Moore) became a caricature.

So good. Gotta love the Brits. Impeccable style and use of language. Bond, James Bond.

Have some of my terribly disappointing brandy [I keep the good stuff in my desk for myself and give this shit to guests]. - Very British

60s Bond: "I'd say it was a thirty-year-old fiend indifferently blended, sir, with an overdose of bombois". Modern Bond: _feelings_

Beautifully photographed scene. I love how the camera pulls back to show the magnificent set.

The awesomeness can't be contained.

I love how M takes a sniff of the brandy to try to figure out what the hell Bond was talking about. Far and away the best Bond film and the best Bond.

Could watch that over and over. I bet it took 1 whole day to film that. I read all the Bond novels when I was in high school, they were all great.

"There is no way wine is better than Pepsi!" George Costanza

This is probably my favourite scene in the movie, finesse, class, calmness and fine setting, something that's sadly almost gone today.

There is a certain something special about the stylishness of the older british culture on display in early bond movies.

I read the book and M and Bond was just like this..M a stiff upper lip and Bond a world traveler and gentlemen but also a tough guy.

0:18 Glorious tracking shot to establish the scene. Love the subtle friction between Bond and M that adds humour to the exposition.

This one scene perfectly explains the whole plot of the movie without going into too much detail & I also love the underlying tension between Bond & M - Bond showing off his superior knowledge of fine wines yet M masterfully puts him in his place with the quip about who is doing the lecture & telling Bond to requisition the gold bar from Q branch. After all Bond is a civil servant & M is superior. Goldfinger & Spectre are my two most favourite Bond movies.

Beautifully played scene by all 3 actors. Connery WAS Bond. And Bernard Lee WAS M.

It’s a great touch when Bond is more of a Brandy connoisseur than Bernard Lee’s M . It puts a nice spin on the Master vs field agent relationship.

It's amazing that Richard Vernon (the actor playing Smithers) was only 39 when this was filmed. He looks like he's 60.

Butler pretends to cut the cigar 😂

Such old yet gold fashion formal manly dinner scene and discussion. Rest in peace Sir Sean Connery the first James Bond.

great scene! three excellent actors

"Here, you're my guest, have more of the disappointing brandy so I don't have to drink it".

If only we could go back and buy gold at 30 an ounce.

My dad was in army intelligence right at the end of WWII. When I was a little kid I always thought my dad did the same stuff as 007. Needless to say Sean Connery has always been my favorite actor. RIP Sean you are a legend. I've read every James Bond Novel that Fleming wrote. In college literature class 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' was required reading.

I absolutely love small detail, when M tries to figure out how Bond knows that's something wrong with "rather disappointing brandy". I absolutely love M face right there.

It's Sir Desmond Glazebrook from Yes, Minister. "I'm a banker, what do I know about finance."

Absolutely fantastic, subtle scene, esp M's admonishment of Bond's hilarious liquor critique.

"Colonel Smithers is giving the lecture, 007!!" That look! LOL!!

Dang, Moneypenny was hot back in the day!

Colonel Smithers is giving the lecture 007! One of my all time favourite Bond/M moments!

I watch old James Bond movies with Sean Connery to remember my teenage years at the movies, and see my favorite 007.agent. Awm

"Mr. Bond can make whatever use of it he sees fit. Providing he returns it, of course, it's worth £ 5000." Bond: Immediately gambles with the gold.

Saw this movie last Saturday as part of the 60th Anniversary cinema re-release, absolutely amazing, even though I can tell you the entire script at this stage, to see this epic on a huge screen and booming sound was fantastic to say the least. Go see a classic Bond movie in the cinema please, you won't regret it

I love men who are both elegant and tough, and Sir Sean was the quintessential one

When movies were worth watching. Richard Vernon was an excellent actor. Loved him in 'The Man in Room 17' TV series.

The art direction, script, performances are totally sublime.

The actor, Denis Cowles, who plays Brunskill, the valet, was born in 1889. Even though I was alive at the time the movie came out, I'd forgotten how many older folks still working in the Swinging Sixties in Britain, were born in the 19th century, in the Victorian Era.

Colonel Smithers is giving the lecture 007... Damn, Bond just got sonned.

gotta love Ms. "Money-Penny"♥️😜

SEAN CONNERY WILL ALWAYS BE JAMES BOND😊

"...You'll draw it from Q Branch, with the rest of your equipment, in the morning!" M with exquisite pettiness, pulls rank on the know-it-all Bond.

Most scenes with Connery are masterpieces and could be looked at over and over agian.

"Thank you Brunskill, that will be all." Every line, every expression, every action every shot and pan is exquisitely delivered in a perfect scene.

This scene is meant to be in the Bank of England in the evening when it's closed. The only other people around would have been a detachment of soldiers from one of the Guard's 5 infantry regiments. Terrific to think that while these elegant men were having their dinner and talk, that there would have had fully armed, elite soldiers on station and patrolling the premises - even in the vault down below. During the Gordon Riots in 1780 a detachment of the Foot Guards successfully defended the Bank of England from a violent mob. Thenceforth the Bank paid for a detachment of soldiers, usually provided by the Brigade of Guards to defend the Bank. From 1780 the detachment marched from their barracks, initially from the Tower of London, later Wellington or Chelsea Barracks though in bad weather the detachment would be sent by a normal train of the London Underground. Imagine that! With a Guard Mount at 3 pm, each guard consisted of one Officer, one Sergeant, one Corporal, one Lance Corporal, eight Guardsmen and a drummer; originally the guard had 30 Guardsmen. Once at the Bank there were two sentry posts, one outside the Counting House Parlour and another outside the bullion vaults. The officer was given half a bottle of port and the right to invite a friend or two to dinner in the Bank. The other ranks were a given pint of beer with their dinner and one brand new shilling, two for a sergeant, that they bought tea and a cake with in the Canteen. The Guard wore plimsolls in the bank in Modern times. From 1963 the Bank Picquet travelled by vehicle clad in service dress and armed with automatic weapons with the emphasis on security moving from ceremonial to tactical deployment. Faced with military manpower cuts, it was reluctantly decided that there was no longer a justification for this duty to continue with the duty ending on the evening of 31 July 1973 . Pity.

" Mr. Bond can make whatever use of it he sees fit. Providing he returns it, of course, it's worth £ 5000. " Fantastic.

That was a great film. James Bond at its peak. Connery was unbelievably good. The look M gives him after he smelled the bottle is really funny. The film is very entertaining. I like this movie. That's how Bond should always be. ✌

In this scene the acting is 110% PERFECT !!!!!!!!!!

A standard US gold bar weighs just over 27 lb. I handled one once in the vault at the NY Federal Reserve, back before 2001 when they still did vault tours for Reserve Bank employees. You really needed two hands to heft it. It cracks me up when I see people in movies tossing them around one handed. That bar, if real gold, would have likely weighed 10 kilos, or 22 lb.

Love it! Arguably one of the most "Britishy" scenes of all time. Smithers virtually needs a translator to bring his egalitarian lexicon down to earth.

Way back when…my father explained to me that the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown NYC had more gold in its basement than all of the places mentioned above…combined. Many countries held their gold reserves in that same basement and paid each other by simply moving the gold around from room to room.

The acting in this scene is not supposed to draw attention to itself, it's not supposed to be over the top - but damn, it's good

Goldfinger stored some of his gold in Caracas, Venezuela. How times have changed; that country was fairly wealthy and respected back then.

With an overdose of bon bois !

Love the back and forth with M a member of the established class and Bond who relied on charity to better himself from the working class

Loved how the Director chose to move the camera AWAY from them as they are talking. All the way to the back of the room. Causing them to look small. Usually you will see the camera going TOWARDS the actors in a scene like this. Very interesting. I liked it a lot. Then the Director cut in to them for closer shots. All great.

Nice acting on Connerys side. The greed in his eyes when he reached out for the gold... well done... Even a James Bond can't resist the aura of gold.

5000 pounds from 1963 to 2017 = Current value almost 100,000 pounds in today's money.

The entire movie is golden!

The thing about Bond was he was not concerned with other people's feelings. He was a psychopath, but he knew the difference between right and wrong. Women were disposable playthings. He really didn't care. Sean Connery was perfect for the role.

"His establishment here is down in Kent" "You mean where the werewolf ran amok?" "Precisely" "I understand his hair was perfect" "Get back to the subject at hand 007"

This is a classic scene- this is what is missing from the modern versions of Bond. High stakes espionage requires high stakes clandestine meetings.

For a big man Connery moved so majestically.....The best Bond by far.

M has strong political and military connections and this M is the best of the series. Bond is just the novice spy, trying to break in the game.

Dr No until Thunderball, was Connerys best Bond films. Tightly/sharply written and Presented ......saw the Budget on Screen.

Always loved the lack of background noise and clarity of the dialogue in the early bond movies.

I loved that special moment when as they are talking and after Bond made an analyzed study of that brandy, we see them slowly passing around that Crystal decanter. To where M gets it and he sniffs the brandy. Then looking over at 007 to give him that look that he may be right about the brandy. Great subtle moment.

This scene is one of the reasons Sean Connery is the best James Bond. If you look at his tux compared to the others, it is obviously not up to snuff, but he wears it well. His style always came across as a blue collar guy in a white collar world, one of us, so we can always relate to him so well.

Guy Hamilton was responsible for setting that scene and having it come across the way it did. His direction helped to establish the James Bond look. Everyone gives Sean Connery so much credit. But it was Guy Hamilton who schooled Connery on how to look and how to act.

Moneypenny was the greatest catch Bond could have ever hoped for. A loyal servant of the Crown, she was smart, sophisticated, pretty, skilled and caring. I’m glad they never consummated their relationship. It was always perfect this way.

These Bonds are so far ahead of the Craig Catastrophe, it is literally another planet❤️

Smithers is handling that 30 pounds gold bar like it's nothing.

This is what a dinner business meeting ought to be.

007: there's Connery, and then everyone else.

I just wanna live one day like James, the elegance, the beauty, the action, everything

In my head, this is basically what should be going on in my life every fucking evening! Talking about gold, smoking cigars and wearing tuxedos 🤣🤣

"It's worth..........£5000!" 🤣 doesn't really have the same impact nearly 60 years later!! 🤣

I loved how he dropped it when Goldfinger was about to make the putt..

Clssic scene, Napoleon brandy,cigars,Nazi gold,stunning furnishings,Sean Connery sharp as a razor-he is the real James Bond!

I wish Moneypenny had bigger roles in all Bond films. She was great

Col. Smithers is played by British actor Richard Vernon.

The Best Bond in one of the greatest Bond movies ever made. If a young Connery could as if by magic be transferred to the modern era and star in a new batch of well written and directed Bond movies, he'd still be the best Bond ever

M sniffing the brandy decanter after 007's critique. 🤣

The best Bond movie ever. This one set the mould for the blockbusters. Goldfinger best line by a Bond villain;”No Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!” Absolutely awesome.