"No Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!" Hands down the greatest Bond villain line EVER. Cinematic....gold (Dr. Evil finger.)

Fun Trivia: Harold Sakata got badly burned while filming Oddjob's death scene, but despite his pains he kept holding the hat.

"Where's Auric?" "Playing his golden harp."

It's a shame you didn't show the 007 the bomb timer stops at, it's another highly iconic scene!

Wow, I must have watched Goldfinger 1000 times, I NEVER even seen the guard with Goldfinger on the plane at the end! Thanks Calvin, I learned something today about something old and great! :)

Funny I don't remember that henchman standing behind Goldfinger in the plane. I was too focused on Goldfinger and Bond. xD

Your reviews are working very well with my marathon. I am watching all of them and then watching these immediately after. Thank you for this.

I just love that bond throws the gold ingot at oddjob and it just bounces off him as if it was like a teddy bear being thrown at oddjob

“Your nametag says ‘P. Galore’”. What does the ‘P’ stand for?” “You’ll never guess.” “ Paula? Penelope? Patricia?” “No.” “Prudence?” “Now you’re _way_ off.”

I agree, Goldfinger's plan is the best villain scheme of all Bond movies. It is simple, yet believable and it just sounds so awesome, especially since Goldfinger is just purely delighted by his idea. His delight makes him one of the best villains in a Bond movie. He is evil, but Gert Fröbe portrayed him as a kind of normal man, who just loves his work. All other villains are either menacing or psychopathic or emotionally restrained or unsympathetic. Goldfinger's death or rather his facial expressions when he's sucked out of the plane have always struck me as being comedic faces, as if Gert Fröbe was intentionally looking silly, which is in total contrast to his anger when he appears from behind the curtain.

I've told quite a few people if they only watch one Bond film to watch Goldfinger.

For a great villain, Goldfinger and his team let Bond off the hook many times. They let Bond live after Jill and Tilly were killed, took Bond off the table moments before the laser arrived, nice enough to bring Bond's luggage so he can shave/freshen up/put on a new suit and really nice enough to let Bond drive his own car after being captured. Seems like KFC and Sunoco had good product placement.

Unlike most of the later Bond movies, the screenplay for Goldfinger far surpassed the actual Fleming novel it was based on. Maibaum and Dehn (just looked it up) deserve massive kudos for their sublime improvements, to make this the no.1 Bond movie. 1) Goldfinger deals swiftly and visibly with the wonderfully portrayed Jill Masterson. No waiting months to learn that she was killed in a tragic spray booth accident as in the book. The movie scene also introduces Oddjob at the outset, establishing Goldfinger as a 'dangerous man'. 2) Goldfinger's car has entire body panels made of gold, giving a great visual in Auric's factory, rather than the hidden armour plating panels being replaced by (hidden) gold sheets in the book ...boring! 3) That book had Goldfinger only blowing the bloody doors off of the Fort Knox vault using a nuclear bomb, after which several gangs of mafia mobsters were supposed to run into the broiling and radioactive ruins to loot the gold. Totally ridiculous! The screenplay's dastardly plan is far more credible and somewhat astonishing, when revealed. 4) The book DOESN'T take us inside of Fort Knox - we ALL want to see the gold inside (ffs!). The film's scheme enables just that, with a wonderful view of a multistorey palace of gold for the finale. How could Fleming have envisaged anything else? 5) Lots of other cool stuff like: Mobster Solo's death: Movie - shot, car-crushed and cubed in a Lincoln continental limousine! Book - reportedly shoved down some stairs by Oddjob >yawn< 6) In the film, Bond is kept alive and captive, to neutralise MI6's interference in the scheme. In the book, he actually works for Goldfinger as his personal secretary. Such a thin plotline! I think the SCREENWRITERS are the real heroes of Goldfinger. The book is one of the lamest of Fleming's Bonds.

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. That's why the shot of the car just before the crane claws descend and destroy it. The crushing of this car in 1964 had an impact on the screen that much later audiences do not get.

Pussy Galore deserves a 21st century reboot, but with a more subtle name like Minge Mania.

the bomb scene in the Legends game is funnier: Bond: Any sugestions? Feilix: Yes...don`t cut the wrong wire

*not to mention the fact that when we see the car getting crushed you can quite clearly see there is nobody inside

When you said Oddjob was the worst henchmen and etc, I WAS READY TO RIP INTO YOU ABOUT A GREAT HENCHMEN! Then you corrected that blasphemy, lol! Great Review!

Characterising that barn scene as an instance of rape troubles me. It seems to me that the movie makes an effort to show, via Pussy's hand movements, that the encounter was consensual by the time the scene cuts out. It's not explicit, but I believe that was the intention. So at most, Bond commits battery or assault against Pussy by forcing the beginning of their encounter. She's hardly the first, last or most unfortunate victim of 007s battery though. Context is also king. She was a key player in a plot to kill tens of thousands of soldiers, and treason. Prosecuting Bond in this case would hardly be in the "public interest". As always though, I love your videos Calvin.

As great as this movie is, that barn scene has always bothered me. I guess it works alright in illustrating the sparring, somewhat kinky nature of James and Pussy's relationship, but near the end of the scene it starts to feel a bit uncomfortable.

This was the first one I watched and is my favourite

you are rite Calvin Goldfinger is one of the greatest bond films

One of your best videos. This is my favorite Bond film. Favorite Bond, favorite villain, a larger amount of iconic images than any other Bond film. You sounded like you were climaxing whe you mentioned the DB5. XD

Wait they used a voice over for Goldfinger? I didn't know that. Well you learn something new everyday. xD

Just watched the movie again after not seeing it for a few years, and this is a great Bond flick. Absolutely holds up to this day as a time capsule for that era. I don't understand how people say it's over hyped. It's a smart script. I think the only thing that gets a little fuzzy is Pussy's turning, and swapping the gas cans. I understand that this sequence of events happens all off camera, and is purposely set up this way, but the whole time the audience is like "huh?" Until Felix informs us after the events happen and all suspense is gone. It's like they built up the set up, but dropped the ball on the pay off. My only really issue with the film. I think it could of been written better, perhaps her busting Bond out at night, and they swap the cans without anyone seeing. Could of been a fun spy moment. As I do with most movies I watch, I look up reviews to get other's insights on a particular movie, and just a plethora of different opinions. I found your review, and I just wanted to comment on your format. I'm not sure if you do this in all of your other videos. I've only watched these two. And I do understand it's a bit dated now. Maybe you've changed things up. But still wanted to share feedback. Your thoughts and insights really only came into play at about the 7 min mark of part 2. Part 1 and most of part 2 was you literally giving a watered down spark notes of the film. I think most of the general views that find their way to this particular video have the movie fresh in their head, or perhaps just saw it. Having you go over the movie from start to finish felt off, and no offense rather boring. You could of honestly taking the 7 min mark of part 2, to the end and expanded on key parts of the movie, and giving your thoughts. We as the audience don't really need a play by play summary of the entire movie, if we want that, we will go watch the movie again. Not trying to sound harsh here, I think you have a lot of interesting thoughts, and I actually found your closing points well thought out and interesting to hear. But it took you one video of 15 mins, and another 7 minutes of your second video for you to be done letting us know exactly what the movie was about. Perhaps you were actually reviewing the full video. If that's your stick cool. I personally think you would do much better giving a super brief plot summary of the flick in a minute. And then break down characters, gadgets, villains, Bond, and whatever categories you wanted to touch base on. Maybe even bring up history with the particular flick like you did in this one a bit. It was super interesting. Anyway, thanks for the review, and your closing thoughts. Really enjoyed that bit. Keep up the good work. I'm going on a bond Marathon here this month. I'll most likely check out your other reviews soon. :)

Calvin I just want to say that your incredible videos have influenced me to make my own bond related channel. Thank you so much for constantly keeping us entertained with your marvelous videos. I am really excited to see your upcoming videos as well. Thank you for giving us something to enjoy between bond films, and for inspiring me to make a channel dedicated to bond; just like you

Great Bond movie, up there with Casino Royale and The Spy Who Loved Me.

These vids are great! Loving going through them

2:20 - It does not need to make sense. Goldfinger wanted to do it, so he did. I would do the same thing if I were him.

make a video about the best villain plans

I’ve always been curious what body of water the plane crashed into at the end. Wasn’t it flying Kentucky to DC?

Really curious on what you have to say about Thunderball. Can't wait for that one!

goldfinger's line in the laser scene is one of the best in the entire series...a lot of really good things in goldfinger and a lot of not so good things...fun and enjoyable never the less..

This is actually the first Bond film I watched, one of my favourites.

Skyfall is my favorite Bond film...next to Casino Royale...

In parts it is brilliant. I do love it. Sean is pretty fantastic in this.

Goldfinger was great because of Oddjob, Goldfinger's speech and his golden gun, and Jill's death.

Sean Connery looking terrified in the laser scene is no surprise, anybody would be if you had a blind man holding a blowtorch near your crotch.

Don't worry, you're not the only one who thinks that barn scene is a hard watch. The one positive I can give is that it's definitely not as bad as the book

Bless you for this delightful review, Calvin! Over the years I've noticed even more mistakes and inconsistencies and illogical stuff than you pointed out here, and yet, like you, I absolutely love this film. In fact, it's my favorite Bond along with 'Casino' and 'Majesty's'. It was also my very first Bond -- which I saw on it's initial release -- and the sheer magic of that experience cast a spell on me which has lasted a lifetime. Like another commenter here, I too was taken in by your Harold Sakata fake-out and wanted to jump through the screen and throttle you! 😄 Best villain scheme, best villain, best car, and one of the most iconic Bond girls (women) -- 'Goldfinger' had it all. The only thing we seem to disagree on is the title song, which I love. But you're hardly alone in finding it's brassiness a bit much. In summation, though 'Goldfinger' remains my favorite cinematic Bond, I acknowledge that 'Casino' and 'Majesty's are probably finer films. And though Connery is "my" Bond, and never better than in this film, I'm also happy to say that, as an actor myself, I think the finest performance of any actor as 007 was Daniel Craig in 'Casino Royale' -- hence his richly deserved BAFTA nod.

Dude. Great review :) I want to make a comment about the scene in the barn. I didn't find anything bad about it at all. The chemistry in the moment. The contest of wills. The subtle energy in the air between them. Bond would *never* rape. He's just got a way with women that they do not want to resist. It is a fantasy of masculinity that few men actually get to experience. I laughed my ass off. Ps. Embarrassing Fact: I just watched Goldfinger for the first time in my life today. WHAT. TOOK. ME. SO. LONG!? I'm really enjoying making my way through every book and movie now. I saw Never Say Never Again with my father when I was 8 in the theatre. I loved it. I saw Casino Royale in 2005 in the theatre and was completely floored. I don't know why I never decided to look into the rest of the movies and begin the books until now. I'm happy I am. I love discovering things from an Old World that remain Wonderful and Excellent. Cheers!

Felix has great speed to make it down the stairs and reach the bomb in 7-8 seconds.

If Miss Galore had the strength to flip Bond into the hay, she no doubt had the strength to hold him at bay.(didn't realize at first that was a rhyme!). Plus, once they started kissing, she could have kneed 007 in the stomach or kicked him in the nuts..Maybe she succumbed because she couldn't resist those dark Scottish eyes. BTW, the scene in Thunderball when Bond blackmails Molly Peters into sex in the sauna is more offensive than the Goldfinger scene.

I only learnt the other day that two actors from this film (the guy who played the guy at the Bank of England and the guy who played Mr. Solo) would go on to star in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' TV series. This is a useless trivia titbit but it's a link between two of my all-time favourite franchises. And it's fun to see a man play a Gangster one day and a Vogon the next.

Agreed, the DB5 is quite literally sex on 4 wheels

I just realized that Connery played in Marnie right before he played in Goldfinger. The connection here is "man who forces himself upon a woman." While the scene in Marnie is arranged to be serious and horrifying, the scene in Goldfinger is arranged to be playful. Iirc the character Marnie gets even more disturbed, because she actually feels raped, while Pussy changes sides, because she didn't feel raped but maybe passionately loved?

Nice video Calvin, again :)

It hurts to see a classic car like that get crushed :(

Skyfall was actually the third Bond film I saw in the cinema. The first was Die Another Day...and the second was Casino Royale.

how do you put photos on your James Bond videos

Looking forward to that Thunderball review XD! My least favourite as well!

What makes me think Pussy is the best Bond Woman is the fact that her tough character makes you forget what her name is on top being the first Bond Woman who could take care of herself, if need-be. I always thought that Goldfinger explained his plan then kill them was to show off how sinister and deceptive he can be which is shown throughout the film. And lastly I think this is Connery's best performance as Bond. Best movie, best Bond, best Woman, best villain, and best henchman. Love it.

Agreed. I like From Russia With Love more, and possibly Dr No too.

04:14 Goldfinger ´´always had an escape``

Nah Calvin I think you're right about that barn scene. I hadn't seen this one for about 13 years or so and I just got out of a screening of it. It's difficult to not interpret that scene as a coded 'corrective rape'. Connery's cold portrayal also kind of reinforces it. Given how central this movie is in the perception of Bond (good and less so), it makes all of M's talk of Bond as a sexist dinosaur in (I think) Goldeneye make a lot of sense. Also, while I kind of agree with your distaste for the theme, I do think the instrumental motif is used really, really well in the score. That stuff aside though, this one is really, really good.

Just curious, have you read the Goldfinger novel? It was the first Fleming novel I ever read it and was interesting to compare with the movie. A lot of the things that happen are the same, but a lot of details are different (which I won't spoil here) and there are even a few scenes which weren't in the movie (which I won't spoiler either). It was interesting to see the differences, though the movie is far better.

The best Bond of all. Better than look-how-funny I am Roger Moore or moping dishrag Daniel Craig. This Bond (only #3) delivered the goods.

Top 10 Bond Deaths? Please do it Calvin

Times change and tastes change and Bond films have changed with them. Probably the big change now is audiences want to see Bond affected by events emotionally unlike in the sixties where the character remains unaffected and is exactly the same in the end as he is in the beginning.

How about the fact that Oddjob's death was also shocking!

A great fun watch as always - but is it me or is Calvin saying Masterton rather than Masterson all the way through?

Hey Calvin, did you hear about MGM and Danjaq announcing they acquired all rights and interests of the Kevin McClory estate? That can only mean one thing; no more inexplicable delicatessens in stainless steel? or could it be Blofeld is returning?

I prefer this to From Russia with Love I think. Its not perfect but its enjoyable.

For me the only major problem is Felix. This is not the same character from Dr No.

I may have said it before, but I saw "Goldfinger" when it came out and Oddjob scared the hellout of me, up to the point I thought my cousin's fiance (now husband of my cousin) was Oddjob and I ran away from him. As for your complaint about Goldfinger's guys not being able to paint Shirley Eaton gold, you have to remember that Harold Sedakas chope on Connery's neck severely hurt him. I know you couldn't give a ""rat's ass" about Ayn Rand'sview of the Bond films; however, she blasted the movies contra the Connery films, after "Dr. No," that is. I did read "From Russia with Love" and parts of "Goldfinger" and I think the motivations of the "Goldfinger" film is superior to the book. Lastly, I love the scene in the barn with Honor Blac,man and Connery and to hell with your PC nonsense. Connery all the way!

I do find the forcing of himself upon Pussy Galore by Bond extremely problematic. Goldfinger himself is an excellent villain. Gert Frobe is just wonderful. Apart from the Pussy Galore sequence in the barn, this is my favourite Connery Bond film.

gonna be predicable here but yeah, personally i think all the best stuff is in the first half minus bond/oddjob fight.

What an excellent movie.

According to Calvin, His least favorite bond movie is Quantum of Solace

Will you get to OHMSS again too?

I do gotta say .... Goldfinger didn't need to put the nuke INSIDE Fort Knox .... Anywhere even close would have been enough

Does anyone else just love that guitar rendition of the Goldfinger theme at the end? So great. As for the movie, I have a love-hate relationship with it. I think it's flawed, the writing has issues and Pussy Galore never made an impact on me as a Bond girl, the pacing is off and as you mentioned, Bond doesn't do a whole lot. But none of that alters the undeniable fact that this film is iconic as hell. It may be less than the sum of its parts, but it has some damn fine parts to offer. So yeah. Great Bond flick, but I wouldn't call it the best ever.

This is definitely a fun movie and I love the golf scene, but there are some crazy scenes. How did Goldfinger know that Jill Masterson had a disorder where she breathed through her skin rather than her nose? I agree about the Solo scene. The biggest thing that bothers me is that they crushed a 5,000 lb Lincoln and dropped it into a tiny Ford Ranchero that could only hold 800lb max :/ Hilarious review!

OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYOU DID NOT LIKE THE THEME SONG...I GET IT...DID YOU HEAR ME???

Whens everything or nothing game review out?

Why did they dub Goldfinger?

Please do Thunderball, I am thinking of buying it so please review it! Perhaps you could do reviews and videos on other movies to fill in the two ish year gap between each film.

Can you please upload a new video your videos are awesome, unless your busy but please make a new one as soon as you can

I'd hesitate to refer to Pussy's sudden character shift as a nitpick given that it has a significant impact on how the final conflict plays out. Not to mention the arbitrary nature of it completely undermines everything that had been established about her character up to that point. It makes it next to impossible to take her seriously from that point on, not to mention it really undercuts the tension of the gas element of Operation Grandslam. It feels like the writers did such a good job of setting the odds against Bond that they couldn't figure out a way for him to surmount them while maintaining the internal logic of the film. The whole thing is so ridiculous that even the next movie pokes fun at it.

Goldfinger-Bond in a horse farm

As far as gassing the mafia guys after revealing his plan, maybe he was just testing the gas to make sure it worked.

Desmond is taller than Connery!

0:56: Dr No means no baby

Review Goldeneye again

I'm enjoying all your reviews, but i disagree that the crushing the gangster in the car is a pointless scene! It's the first of one of many important Bond tropes of the series! The villain always has to kill someone (a minor character) in a horrible, novel or weird way (the worst being the dogs set on the girl in Octopussy and the decompression in Licence to Kill) So it's actually as historic in bond terms as the entrance of Q or Bond banging a girl at the end of the film.

02:12 where is the body?

I prefer Dr no and From Russia with love over Goldfinger.

Seems counterproductive to put all that gold in the back of that black Lincoln and then crush the car and then have Oddjob take the car with him to separate the gold. Thought the whole idea of crushing the car is to distance Goldfinger and the corpse of Mr. Solo.

A smuggler named Solo...…..sounds familiar.

I never truly understood Goldfinger’s plot. I mean understand what he was trying to do, but didn’t understand how it was going to work. I didn’t think any nuclear device could be that close and simply make it radioactive and not vaporize and destroy it. If it was radioactive, how was it still not of value, since it just sat there as a symbol value, which is not passed around physically? Sadly, I was, (and still), pretty ignorant of the gold standard, and the national, and worlds financial systems of that day, and even more of the current systems.

Red Grant dies from his own watch

Quantum of Balls

02:25 he is not explaining to them, he is explaning to us, exposition chap, cinema basics

No-one's going to point out how visible Sean Connery's toupee is at 5:47 ?

U mean bond villain death

Good movie, but they really should have cut a lot of the scene where Goldfinger explains his plans to the mafia. That goes on way too long, and always took me out of the movie. Another thing they should have cut back on is oddjobber getting the car crushed, that scene goes on for too long too.I like Goldfinger, but why did he spend so much money on having a hydraulic map put in his living room????

fortnox was the best place ever to bring a nuke bomb

Agreed! All of Guy Hamilton's Bond movies kinda sucked imo. He was too obsessed with cramming American elements into the movies... even when the story never fucking went there! The women of Goldfinger were gorgeous as fuck though.

Only in the 60's could a normal man chuck a bar of solid gold like a baseball at a muscular henchman that takes it to the chest as if it were a stuffed teddy bear and audiences in the theatre don't find it the least bit cartoony. I'm not by the way, I'm a huge James Bond fan and prefer the more unrealistic films in the series, but man, I can't but watch these films today without coming to the conclusion the the world mentally and physically an entirely different beast than it is today.

9:19 I didn't like the scene where Bond forced himself on Pussy Galore