Date of Release
World Premiere 17th September 1964, Odeon Leicester Square, London
Running Time
130 minutes James Bond
Sean Connery Plot
Using a nuclear device supplied by Red China, gold-smuggler and metallurgist Auric Goldfinger intends to increase the value of his gold bullion ten-fold by detonating the device inside Fort Knox, thereby making the 15 billion dollar gold supply of the United States radioactive for 58 years. Bond’s Women
Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman)
Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton)
Bonita – the night-club dancer (Nadja Regin)
Dink (Margaret Nolan) Bond’s Enemies
Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe)
Oddjob (Harold Sakata)
Capungo (Alf Joint) Bond’s Allies
Felix Leiter (Cec Linder)
Tilly Masterson (Tania Mallet)
‘M’ (Bernard Lee)
Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)
‘Q’ (Desmond Llewelyn) Bond’s Car
Aston Martin DB5 Bond’s Gadgets
Aston Martin DB5 with accessories: bullet-proof windscreen, smoke screen, oil sprayer, front-wing machine guns, retractable rear bullet-proof shield, tyre-slashing hub cap blades, homer tracking screen, and front passenger ejector seat.
Homing devices for tracking vehicles / people Main Title Music
‘Goldfinger’ sung by Shirley Bassey End Title Music
‘Goldfinger’ sung by Shirley Bassey Music Score
John Barry Production Design
Ken Adam Main Titles Designer
Robert Brownjohn Editor
Peter Hunt Screenplay
Richard Maibaum & Paul Dehn Director of Photography
Ted Moore Director
Guy Hamilton Producers
*Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Broccoli
The listing shown is contractual for the Eastern Hemisphere and is reversed for
the Western Hemisphere. Film Locations
Pinewood Studios, London, England
Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, England
Esso oil refinery, Stanwell, England (opening sequence)
Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Miami, Florida, USA
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
Stoke Park House, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England
Switzerland Budget
$2.5 million Worldwide Box Office
$124.9 million Worldwide Box Office Gross Income 2002 inflation-adjusted
$726 million |
