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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@PentexProductions Ай бұрын

If you want more like this, my other Bond video essays are right here: kzfaq.info/sun/PLGKyAwPbirg9xCsjSvrc_e3N_f887xJnG&feature=shared

@charlieboy1701 Ай бұрын

Nailed this!

@shortattentionspantheatre5075 23 күн бұрын

@CarlJohnson-kk4pr 14 күн бұрын

Never read one of Bond books, yet have seen all the movies.!!!!! Excellent, Superb Powerful PowerHouse Exhilarating Adventurous Mysterious!!!!! Great Gadgets!!!!!!

@debrabader806 12 күн бұрын

The only True James Bond is Sean O’Connor❤

@JulianSildenLanglo Ай бұрын

That smile on Pierce Brosnan when he says "The naked lady covered in gold pain ... life changed for me."

@PentexProductions Ай бұрын

Pierce is the GOAT

@DirtRider999 27 күн бұрын

Ya that was a little too much lol

@PatrickOCnMD 12 күн бұрын

His Goldeneye was also fantastic. For me, the Best Bond movies were Goldfinger, Thunderball, and Goldeneye.

@alfonsobiggers2452 10 күн бұрын

Talk about "The Midas Touch"...

@bennewnham4497 19 күн бұрын

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.

@josron6088 15 күн бұрын

I felt the same way when I saw that car being crushed. Has to be one of the most beautiful vehicles ever made.

@glenfordburrell1076 13 күн бұрын

Does anyone know what his brand of cigarettes were. I'd hazard a guess that they were either Dunhill, Piccadilly or Peter Stuyvesant!

@billolsen4360 13 күн бұрын

@@glenfordburrell1076 Piccadilly when in Britain, Peter Stuyvesant when in America, naturally.

@paddyglenny 12 күн бұрын

A great video!

@doncase2169 12 күн бұрын

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,

@56postoffice 14 күн бұрын

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.

@user-rr7zh3uq5g Күн бұрын

in the history of cinema

@RobertR3750 8 сағат бұрын

Your quote is wrong. Bond says "do you expect me to talk?"

@TheAdventurer1 22 күн бұрын

Absolutely agree ! Shirley Basseys Golfinger theme is the GOAT of all Bond themes. Also Golfinger is my personal favorite.

@fredbloggs5902 18 күн бұрын

Goldfinger was the first Bond film with all the iconic elements. The credits, music, car, gadgets, women etc.

@masudaharris6435 25 күн бұрын

The golden girl, the Aston Martin, and Shirley's Bassey's theme song somehow made you forget all the film's faults. . . .

@pappabunny 21 күн бұрын

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.

@alertgasper 13 күн бұрын

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.

@MrRobster1234 Ай бұрын

Love how they dropped 6,000 lb of Lincoln Continental, gold and dead gangster into a 1/4 ton Ranchero.

@PentexProductions Ай бұрын

*slaps roof - "This baby can defy physics"

@user-dd5gq2gb3p 15 күн бұрын

Not just a half ton Ranchero but a falcon Ranchero and a million dollars worth of gold

@Floorguy1000 27 күн бұрын

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.

@PentexProductions 26 күн бұрын

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.

@Floorguy1000 26 күн бұрын

@@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.

@alertgasper 13 күн бұрын

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.

@NoosaHeads 29 күн бұрын

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.

@PentexProductions 29 күн бұрын

Brilliant that you got an Aston! They were much cheaper back in the day - but still a shame to have sold it.

@bondgabebond4907 13 күн бұрын

How can anyone not be excited with the music screams and Shirley sings the song. Every time I hear that song, I get goosebumps.

@obelix703 Ай бұрын

32:21 Never forget: Goldfinger got that entire room remodeled for that ONE (1) meeting.

@beryllium1932 Ай бұрын

Deltonide! At dawn the flying circus of my personal pilot, Miss Poosie Galore will *shhpraaay* it into ze AT-moe-sss-fee-AH!!

@PentexProductions Ай бұрын

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.

@votekyle3000 Ай бұрын

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

@jrneal1220 Ай бұрын

@@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.

@paulbrawley2595 16 күн бұрын

He may have used the elaborate Fort Knox model to convince the Chinese to give him the bomb.

@6catalina0 15 күн бұрын

1964, The Beatles and Beatle mania and James Bond, it was the decade of British music and movie culture.

@billolsen4360 13 күн бұрын

Wasn't that the year that they stopped food rationing in the U.K?

@StevenKeery 10 күн бұрын

@@billolsen4360No, rationing stopped in 1953.

@markrossow6303 6 күн бұрын

...the end of the Rule by Received Pronunciation...

@RandallvanOosten-ln5wf 14 күн бұрын

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.

@cheekster777 Ай бұрын

Welcome back my friend. We’ve missed you.

@PentexProductions Ай бұрын

Sorry it's been a while - this was supposed to have been finished two weeks ago!

@MrEab2010 25 күн бұрын

I call GF the Citizen Kane of action flicks. A total game-changer for many reasons.

@CaStumpe75 23 күн бұрын

Let's all give some credit to the marvellous German actor Gert Fröbe, who played one of the finest 007-villains.

@The_Pronato 29 күн бұрын

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

@PentexProductions 29 күн бұрын

Gives a new meaning to the idea of 'burning loins.'

@bennewnham4497 19 күн бұрын

Nobody said acting was easy. Hey, helped Connery put on that nice sheen of nervous sweat too.

@cgmad2998 Ай бұрын

Goldfinger is and will still the iconic James Bond movie forever. No doubt about that. I adore too the Bond videos on this channel.

@samuelliragoncalvesliragon4989 Ай бұрын

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

@bonghunezhou5051 Ай бұрын

"..." + GoldenEye + Casino Royale 📽

@lexiwanowski7 Ай бұрын

Finaly another Bond Essay. Because of these Vidios I am Subscribed to you.

@thork6974 Ай бұрын

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.

@PentexProductions Ай бұрын

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.

@j.st.jamesesq.9599 Ай бұрын

Timothy Dalton’s first “Bond, James Bond,” in “The Living Daylights,” is also one of the best uses of the line.

@PentexProductions 26 күн бұрын

Agreed - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abl6esemuZa8Zps.html

@dr2759 14 күн бұрын

TImothy Dalton is criminally underrated.

@user-gx2yy1df6f 14 күн бұрын

@@dr2759 he got a lousy script too.

@LimeliteXD Ай бұрын

I've always been partial to 'From Russia with Love' but you can't deny Goldfinger's spot at the top

@unowen-nh9ov Ай бұрын

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.

@joshslater2426 Ай бұрын

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.

@PentexProductions Ай бұрын

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.

@meiketorkelson4437 Ай бұрын

Yeah. From Russia With Love is pretty amazing, but Goldfinger just +1 on it. It's more polished.

@TheMacdod 13 күн бұрын

From Russia With Love is my favorite too. It's a little more staid and has aged better.

@Luka2000_ 12 күн бұрын

Goldfinger did everything right and its to this day incredible. This movie is a masterpiece

@user-sd3ik9rt6d 12 күн бұрын

The corrective rape?

@abigailslade3824 Ай бұрын

The Rock is still my favourite Bond movie, you know I’m right hehe.

@usedscar 11 күн бұрын

The Rock was the last Bond movie!

@Primus54 15 күн бұрын

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.

@StarwarsFannick 16 күн бұрын

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.

@oatis053 15 күн бұрын

Sean Connery was literally the gold!

@usedscar 11 күн бұрын

He was the perfect actor for that role. Can you imagine anyone else?

@stevesinclair4159 Ай бұрын

I rate Goldfinger as the best James Bond film ever, Connery & his supporting cast made more than just a good film they made Magic

@PentexProductions 26 күн бұрын

Gold, you might say!

@stevesinclair4159 26 күн бұрын

@@PentexProductions Happy Saturday, yes Goldfinger set the "Gold Standard" for Bond films!

@brerrabbit9585 2 күн бұрын

60 years on, it`s STILL the best Bond of them all. Excellent, just excellent.

@joshslater2426 Ай бұрын

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.

@unowen-nh9ov Ай бұрын

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.

@caranook 29 күн бұрын

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!

@PentexProductions 29 күн бұрын

A great place to start! Every scene you're like 'oh THAT'S what that's from!'

@ShorePlain Ай бұрын

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.

@Madmanmarque 15 күн бұрын

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.

@robertroberto2487 13 күн бұрын

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.

@Madmanmarque 12 күн бұрын

@@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

@sushibar777 11 сағат бұрын

'Goldfinger' and 'From Russia With Love' are the two best James Bond movies by far.

@charleyit 2 күн бұрын

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.

@ianboard544 18 күн бұрын

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.

@Finarphin 2 күн бұрын

"Oh, nothing, Mr. Bond. I own the club."

@ianboard544 2 күн бұрын

@@Finarphin "I'd say it's a 30 year old fine, indifferently blended. With an overdose of bonbois!"

@thermionic1234567 9 күн бұрын

Excellent, deep-focus color photography combined with great locations!

@jakejennings6534 24 күн бұрын

Fun Fact Shirely Basssey passed out after finishing the final take of goldfinger because of how long she had to hold the final note

@PentexProductions 22 күн бұрын

Apparently she took her bra off while recording to free up her lungs for the final notes!

@jamesvaughan1590 16 күн бұрын

Never heard that, but know that Tom Jones passed out as he sang Thunderball

@bondgabebond4907 13 күн бұрын

@@jamesvaughan1590 Didn't Tom remove his bra like Shirley?

@BjoernarEricSven 17 күн бұрын

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.

@malafakka8530 14 күн бұрын

I never noticed as well. I am still kind of not convinced. That's how good of a job he did.

@vMaxHeadroom Ай бұрын

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...

@GIBKEL 27 күн бұрын

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.

@PentexProductions 26 күн бұрын

Piz Gloria is like a pilgrimage for Bond fans.

@Fee-Nix 14 күн бұрын

@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.

@007ElSenor 12 күн бұрын

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.

@Finarphin 2 күн бұрын

I've seen a lot of movies, and I don't think any movie had more anticipation than Goldfinger. And it delivered.

@Solitude47152 Күн бұрын

Goldfinger and Moonraker just entertain you to escape. My 2 favorite Bonds.

@4CardsMan 14 күн бұрын

Dont leave out Gert Frobe's hilarious take on Goldfinger

@arghjayem 28 күн бұрын

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! 😂

@Italy55 16 күн бұрын

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

@gregrowell8688 14 күн бұрын

DR NO and Thunder Ball were my favorites.

@jamesmorris9816 11 күн бұрын

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.

@josephcope7637 14 күн бұрын

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.

@mastershake2782 11 күн бұрын

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.

@MotoPasjeKamila 23 күн бұрын

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!

@PentexProductions 22 күн бұрын

Thank you! So many firsts in this one.

@007ElSenor 12 күн бұрын

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.

@allanmcinnes4765 7 күн бұрын

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.

@dennismason3740 28 күн бұрын

Bond wore a seagull on his head, not a duck. Theodore's last name is "bye-KELL".

@user-gx2yy1df6f 14 күн бұрын

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.

@Finarphin 2 күн бұрын

The Spy Who Loved Me is quite a bit different than the other books.

@RobertR3750 Күн бұрын

Actually, it was a motel. It's told from the viewpoint of a woman who falls for Bond.

@user-gx2yy1df6f 14 сағат бұрын

@@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.

@RobertR3750 14 сағат бұрын

@@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.

@user-gx2yy1df6f 11 сағат бұрын

@@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.

@user-sq4jz9up6g 15 күн бұрын

Sad Fleming passed before the movie came out He would have loved it

@usedscar 11 күн бұрын

He was so young.

@StevenKeery 10 күн бұрын

@@usedscar: Fleming is reputed to have drank heavily and smoked sixty cigarettes a day.

@HarryMyers-me2gk 14 күн бұрын

I still think From Russia With Love is the best. Dam good story and really good acting by all the cast.❤❤

@DrD00M3 Ай бұрын

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

@ralphsanchico2452 11 сағат бұрын

“No Mcgarett! You don’t get equal billing with Bond, Book em Danno”!

@bobchronister3429 11 күн бұрын

I always found it ironic that 007, super spy, always used his real name, James Bond, when he interacted with people. Wouldn’t these villains know that Bond was a spy? Still….Connery is my favorite Bond and love all his Bond movies. Great video!!!

@RobertR3750 Күн бұрын

In the novels, Bond worked for a fake company, Universal Export. Only other spies knew who he was.

@bobchronister3429 14 сағат бұрын

@@RobertR3750 fair point, I guess I was just reading too much into the story.

@georgeharkness9865 27 күн бұрын

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').

@PentexProductions 22 күн бұрын

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.

@georgeharkness9865 19 күн бұрын

@@PentexProductions I've told people for years what you produced fantastically in this video...will share. Thank you!

@DaveMcRee Ай бұрын

Excellent, just excellent review.

@timgeary1084 14 күн бұрын

I still like Thunderball, it’s the best.

@Solitude47152 Күн бұрын

Thunderball has moments. “She just dead”. Great line

@sidensvans67 28 күн бұрын

It has to be Goldfinger . " Do you expect me to talk ? " " No , Mister Bond . I expect you to die ."

@thermionic1234567 9 күн бұрын

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…

@garyfoss4394 5 күн бұрын

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.

@dangreene3895 Ай бұрын

I was born in 54 , and I never heard of James Bond until Goldfinger, after that everyone knew who Bond was .

@PentexProductions Ай бұрын

Are you Pierce Brosnan?

@dangreene3895 Ай бұрын

@@PentexProductions I wish, why is he my age ? I thought he was younger .

@PentexProductions Ай бұрын

Just a reference to the little clip of him at the start of the video ;)

@j.st.jamesesq.9599 Ай бұрын

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.

@4879daniel 27 күн бұрын

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.

@paulnolan4971 13 күн бұрын

It made Bond for me as a kid. Everything is present and correct.

@markbrodie2784 10 күн бұрын

Goldfinger and Thunderball are the best of them all!

@Scottishbondfan Ай бұрын

good day when pentex has a new bond video

@PentexProductions 29 күн бұрын

Good day for me too - it means I can get some sleep!

@NoosaHeads 11 күн бұрын

Personal thing, of course, but for me, Goldfinger was the best.

@6catalina0 15 күн бұрын

14:03 The next Bond song should be “Secert Agent Man” by DEVO … “Boys” by The Beatles … or “Date to Church” by The Replacements … or “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen … or “Built for Speed” by The Stray Cats … or “What Do I Get” by Buzzcocks … or “Girl Front” by Odd Eye Circle … or “Luv Me” by AOA … or “Super Moon” by WJSN The Cosmic Girls … or “Aitai-tai” by Red Velvet or “Banana Allergy Monkey” by Oh My Girl.

@mezzanoon Ай бұрын

47 minutes of Pentex wooooooo!!

@Brian-uy2tj 11 күн бұрын

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.

@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy 11 күн бұрын

Connery started the humour and Roger Moore took it to a new level. I guess we all remember the first actor we saw as being THE James Bond. But there's a limit to humour and at some point he had to become more serious

@6catalina0 15 күн бұрын

Ideas for new James Bond: James Bond meets all his girlfriends. “I thought you were going to marry me?” James Bond is played by a different actor in each scene, Jim Cary, Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood, Jackie Chan, Jim Belusie, Harrison Ford, Domhnall Gleeson, and Richard Dreyfus.

@PentexProductions 15 күн бұрын

You might enjoy the 1967 version of Casino Royale.

@valmor9495 9 күн бұрын

I had a problem with the second half of most of the movies but still worth watching.

@RobertR3750 Күн бұрын

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.

@lukderyck 27 күн бұрын

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.

@PentexProductions 27 күн бұрын

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

@zaphodbeeblebrox6627 26 күн бұрын

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)

@doncase2169 12 күн бұрын

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.

@user-gd8fn7qn7r 28 күн бұрын

great video.

@PentexProductions 26 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching.

@numbersix8919 14 күн бұрын

Actually I play _Dawn Raid on Fort Knox_ for wakey-wakey in the morning (sometimes).

@stuart.whiting Ай бұрын

Superb ! Saw you posted and immediately rewatched the movie before watching your video. You really nailed the pacing problem once they get to Kentucky -- it's also feels like it is bolted on from a different film tonally. Apart from the classic "villain reveals the entire plan in detail" aspect, the scene with the gangsters is just not good. I know the secondary characters can get distilled down to just being spoofs on reality, but there's no way you think any of those guys are competent enough to run an organized crime ring. And taking one of them to be crushed in a compactor makes no sense for Goldfinger's character. Fixing/removing those scenes would have helped the last act a lot ... but still, a terrific movie. Connery is a flat-out movie star.

@PentexProductions 29 күн бұрын

I think some of that is a hangover from the book-to-novel adaptation, since they are meant to play more active roles in his heist in the book. But in the movie they only serve to give Goldfinger someone to explain his plan to, so that Bond can overhear it. Great set though!

@williambarr3551 10 күн бұрын

From Russia With Love is my favorite JB movie.

@usedscar 11 күн бұрын

I bet Kentucky is better than behind an office desk!

@j.st.jamesesq.9599 Ай бұрын

I disagree with your take on the hay scene between Bond and Pussy. Although she does resist him at first, she then wraps her arms around him (40:29) and accepts his advances. Thus, those who feel “uncomfortable” with this sequence are reading too much into the action. Bond had to seduce Pussy in order to save the mission. Without her cooperation, Operation Grand Slam would have been a success.

@jarlbreadmaker 3 күн бұрын

Okay its not a book adaptation but Walton Goggins said for the Fallout show he purposely did not engage with the games at all, to be an outside perspective and make sure it stands better on its own.