You asked where the Fort Knox scenes were filmed. Both the interior and exterior were sets built at Pinewood Studios. The exterior set was built on the backlot. Incidentally, the alley where Bond crashes the Aston Martin, the wall and archway where the beheaded statue stands and the garden at the end were also on the Pinewood lot.
Love this movie. Huge fun with Connery so effortlessly cool and charismatic. The inside of Fort Knox in the movie is a huge gorgeous set by the genius production designer Ken Adam. While the first two Bonds were very successful it was with Goldfinger where Bond Films became a global phenomenon with follow up Thunderball being even more successful.
This is my favorite Connery/Bond movie. The best part is when he's strapped to the table. He has no gadgets to save him, all he has is his wits and he's getting increasingly desperate as the laser is inching closer.
This was my first Bond film. I saw it at my neighborhood theater in 1964. Christ, I'm...Argh! And, on a curious note, all the American gangsters were played by British actors. Mr. Solo was played by Martin Benson, British.
Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) was a huge Star in the UK. She played Cathy Gale on popular TV series, The Avengers. She played a Secret Agent who teams up with Agent John Steed (Patrick Macnee) to stop different bad guys each week. She left the series to do this movie. She was replaced in the series by Diana Rigg playing Mrs. Emma Peel. In one of the episodes John Steed gets a Christmas Card from Cathy Gale. He looks at it and says "What ever is she doing in Fort Knox".
I love this movie. It's the first 007 film where all the (typical) Bond ingredients we have come to know from later movies came together (blueprint for future Bond's). It is one of those movies where 'all things really come together'; the plot, the cinematography, the acting, the scenery and settings, the colors and ofcourse the music; that fantastic score by John Barry. This movie is simply 'Gold' for me ;-)
At the golf course Bond blames some film reel being exposed to Goldfinger's cat. And he gives it to Oddjob to eat. His underlings are supposed to be North Korean.
The Bond movies always go back and forth between being more silly with lots of gadgets and spectacle and then going back to basics with a more grounded film. This one is somewhere in between, but it certainly put the series on a path towards more spectacle and lightheartedness. The name was actually taken straight from the novel by Ian Fleming. Fleming did always love to give his Bond girls "interesting" names xD
In the last movie the villain was SPECTRE..Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion..remember they were only using the Russian. unknowing Tatiana Romanova and for the British.. Bond which they deduced would their agent of choice ..to get the "Lektor" a Russian decoding machine..which they planned to sell..and already had a buyer for it..SPECTRE is an ever present threat to MI6.
So, about the Bond actors: You've got 2 more from Connery to go. Next is actually George Lazenby, who only did one Bond film, but it's one of my favs. It's very different than Connery's last couple of Bond films and has gotten a lot of reappraisal in recent years. After Lazenby left the role (his agent told him that the Bond films would never survive the end of the 60s), Connery came back for one last film. Then we have Roger Moore taking over until the mid 80s. From then on Timothy Dalton gets to end the 80s era of Bond with his 2 films (also favorites of mine). Brosnan takes after in 1995 and is Bond until 2002. And afterwards we've got Craig until today. Hope this was helpful :)
Currently, there is 147.3 million ounces of gold in the Fort Knox depository. The valuation uses a book value of $42.22 per oz. which comes to about 10.5 trillion dollars. If it were valued using the current exchange rate of $1000.00 per oz., the total would be closer to 147 Trillion dollars. The US abandoned the gold standard fully in 1971. Before the great depression you could take any US currency $10 or more to a bank and exchange it for it's value in gold. It actually used to say so on our money. Now US currency only has value because the government says it does. Also, that's why you can't buy a house for $10,000.00 anymore due to inflation and the devaluation of the dollar.
From here on, there's a string of just fun Bond movies, some more than others. But they're not quite as gritty or as serious as From Russia With Love. Thunderball is a little back to basics, but it's primarily about going bigger and bigger for pretty much the rest of the 60s. Maurice Binder is responsible for some of the more outlandish sets at the series goes along.
Ian Fleming came up with the name Pussy Galore and in the novel she's a lesbian. She was played by Honor Blackman who had starred in the action/espionage show THE AVENGERS. She was five years older than Sean Connery
Another good reaction. I’m with you laughing at the over the top elements but understand that when this movie was new it was exciting not funny to us. Everyone saw the Bond movies. They were over the top and we loved them.
Guys, Oddjob played by Harold Sakata (born in Hawaii) was a US Olympics weightlifting champion.
The actor that played Goldfinger, is the same chap that played the toy loving King in
"Chitty Chitty bang bang".
Also a Ian Fleming Book and also produced by Albert Broccoli
He also was in both The Longest Day and Is Paris Burning?
You asked where the Fort Knox scenes were filmed. Both the interior and exterior were sets built at Pinewood Studios. The exterior set was built on the backlot.
Incidentally, the alley where Bond crashes the Aston Martin, the wall and archway where the beheaded statue stands and the garden at the end were also on the Pinewood lot.
Love this movie. Huge fun with Connery so effortlessly cool and charismatic. The inside of Fort Knox in the movie is a huge gorgeous set by the genius production designer Ken Adam. While the first two Bonds were very successful it was with Goldfinger where Bond Films became a global phenomenon with follow up Thunderball being even more successful.
This is my favorite Connery/Bond movie. The best part is when he's strapped to the table. He has no gadgets to save him, all he has is his wits and he's getting increasingly desperate as the laser is inching closer.
This was my first Bond film. I saw it at my neighborhood theater in 1964. Christ, I'm...Argh! And, on a curious note, all the American gangsters were played by British actors. Mr. Solo was played by Martin Benson, British.
Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) was a huge Star in the UK. She played Cathy Gale on popular TV series, The Avengers. She played a Secret Agent who teams up with Agent John Steed (Patrick Macnee) to stop different bad guys each week. She left the series to do this movie. She was replaced in the series by Diana Rigg playing Mrs. Emma Peel. In one of the episodes John Steed gets a Christmas Card from Cathy Gale. He looks at it and says "What ever is she doing in Fort Knox".
One of my favorite actresses, one of my favorite tv shows and one of my favorite lines. May she rest in peace.
Trivia: Gert Fröbe the actor of Auric Goldfinger where bad at english, so all his lines where dubbed by Michael Collins.
German National
In Goldfinger, Gert said that the gold will be radioactive for 58 years.
1964 + 58 = 2022
NOW we're talking James Bond! And the next one is my fave of the series, "Thunderball"! PS: Congrats on hitting 5k!
The actor playing Oddjob won a silver medal in wrestling in the Olympics.
I knew he must've been a wrestler! Good for him.
Fleming knew Erno Goldfinger, a Hungarian Architect but they didn't get on so he made him the villain in his book series, or one of them.
Keep up the franchise, guys! Really enjoying these.
Harold Sakata’s Olympic silver medal was for weightlifting. He got into professional wrestling after, initially in the US as well as Japan.
Love that I've now got your reactions to Bond to look forward to every week
Pussy Galore is an actual character in the Goldfinger novel. The next new Bond is George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
I love this movie. It's the first 007 film where all the (typical) Bond ingredients we have come to know from later movies came together (blueprint for future Bond's). It is one of those movies where 'all things really come together'; the plot, the cinematography, the acting, the scenery and settings, the colors and ofcourse the music; that fantastic score by John Barry. This movie is simply 'Gold' for me ;-)
At the golf course Bond blames some film reel being exposed to Goldfinger's cat. And he gives it to Oddjob to eat.
His underlings are supposed to be North Korean.
The Bond movies always go back and forth between being more silly with lots of gadgets and spectacle and then going back to basics with a more grounded film. This one is somewhere in between, but it certainly put the series on a path towards more spectacle and lightheartedness.
The name was actually taken straight from the novel by Ian Fleming. Fleming did always love to give his Bond girls "interesting" names xD
Awesome reaction! I look forward to Thunderball next!
In the last movie the villain was SPECTRE..Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion..remember they were only using the Russian. unknowing Tatiana Romanova and for the British.. Bond which they deduced would their agent of choice ..to get the "Lektor" a Russian decoding machine..which they planned to sell..and already had a buyer for it..SPECTRE is an ever present threat to MI6.
So, about the Bond actors: You've got 2 more from Connery to go. Next is actually George Lazenby, who only did one Bond film, but it's one of my favs. It's very different than Connery's last couple of Bond films and has gotten a lot of reappraisal in recent years. After Lazenby left the role (his agent told him that the Bond films would never survive the end of the 60s), Connery came back for one last film. Then we have Roger Moore taking over until the mid 80s. From then on Timothy Dalton gets to end the 80s era of Bond with his 2 films (also favorites of mine). Brosnan takes after in 1995 and is Bond until 2002. And afterwards we've got Craig until today. Hope this was helpful :)
Currently, there is 147.3 million ounces of gold in the Fort Knox depository. The valuation uses a book value of $42.22 per oz. which comes to about 10.5 trillion dollars. If it were valued using the current exchange rate of $1000.00 per oz., the total would be closer to 147 Trillion dollars. The US abandoned the gold standard fully in 1971. Before the great depression you could take any US currency $10 or more to a bank and exchange it for it's value in gold. It actually used to say so on our money. Now US currency only has value because the government says it does. Also, that's why you can't buy a house for $10,000.00 anymore due to inflation and the devaluation of the dollar.
From here on, there's a string of just fun Bond movies, some more than others. But they're not quite as gritty or as serious as From Russia With Love. Thunderball is a little back to basics, but it's primarily about going bigger and bigger for pretty much the rest of the 60s. Maurice Binder is responsible for some of the more outlandish sets at the series goes along.
The bomb is stopped at 007 seconds. That guy was the baddie in Rear Window.
What Guy? Goldfinger was played by Gert Frobe a German actor. Mr. Thorwal" the "Bad Guy " in Rear Window was played by Raymond Burr!
@@jamesalexander5623 I thought he's the one who reached over Bond to turn off the bomb.
I found an old vinyl copy of this soundtrack a few weeks ago.
Bitchin’ score AND song.
Nice, liked the reaction very much! The clock stopped att ”double 0 seven” (007) 👌
The BEST Bold film ever!!
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You seem to forget that just before the golf game, Goldfinger said that Oddjob is a MUTE.
Ian Fleming came up with the name Pussy Galore and in the novel she's a lesbian. She was played by Honor Blackman who had starred in the action/espionage show THE AVENGERS. She was five years older than Sean Connery
She really had to act pushing Connery away, it seems she wasn't so hesitant in real life.
Another good reaction. I’m with you laughing at the over the top elements but understand that when this movie was new it was exciting not funny to us. Everyone saw the Bond movies. They were over the top and we loved them.
Live and Let Die is the new Bond with Roger Moore.
Pls react to Wednesday! It's such an amazing show! Jenna was literally perfect for that role. You will love it!
Goldfinger employed Koreans. In the novel Ian Fleming is pretty racist about them, via the conduit of Bond.
Arnie copied the frogman scene for True Lies.
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first? shaken not stirred, please...