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Plot summary
In Miami Beach, the CIA agent Felix Leiter passes James Bond an order from M: observe the bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger. Bond catches Goldfinger cheating at gin rummy with help from Jill Masterson and forces him to lose. Back in London, M wants to know how Goldfinger moves gold out of England, and Q issues Bond an Aston Martin DB5 with tracking devices. Bond arranges a round of golf with Goldfinger in Kent and puts up a bar of Nazi gold as bait. Goldfinger cheats there too, and Bond turns the trick against him. While Goldfinger's car is loaded for the flight to Geneva, Bond plants a tracker on it.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Goldfinger (1964)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Worried about American censors, the producers considered renaming Pussy Galore "Kitty Galore", but won the concerned censor over by inviting him and his wife out to dinner and telling him they were big supporters of the Republican Party.
- A pay dispute with Sean Connery was settled after he suffered a back injury filming the scene in which Oddjob knocks Bond unconscious in Miami: Eon agreed to pay him 5% of the gross of each Bond film he starred in.
- Gert Fröbe spoke little English and said his lines phonetically but was too slow, so Goldfinger's dialogue was redubbed for most of the film by TV actor Michael Collins, a match widely praised as one of the most successful dubs in cinema history.
- Orson Welles was considered as Goldfinger but his financial demands were too high, and Theodore Bikel and Titos Vandis auditioned; Gert Fröbe was cast because the producers saw his performance as a child molester in the German film It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958).
- Ian Fleming re-used the surname Solo when he was briefly involved in creating Napoleon Solo for the American TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which led to a threatened lawsuit by Bond producers Broccoli and Saltzman and forced Fleming to back out of the series.
- Shirley Eaton agreed to take the part if the nudity was done tastefully, and it took an hour and a half to apply the paint to her body; Joan Collins had originally been offered the role but turned it down as she was pregnant with her son.
- To promote the film the two Aston Martin DB5s were showcased at the 1964 New York World's Fair, where the car was dubbed "the most famous car in the world"; Corgi Toys then produced a toy of it that became the biggest selling toy of 1964.
SPOILER
Harold Sakata was badly burned filming his death scene, in which Oddjob is electrocuted by Bond, but kept holding onto the hat with determination despite his pain until the director called "Cut!"
