Date of Release World Premiere 17th September 1964, Odeon Leicester Square, London
Running Time 130 minutes
Starring Sean Connery as Ian Fleming’s James Bond
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
- 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
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2 Responses
My favourite 007. Not only for the reason that it was released three days after I was born. From the humourous opening sequence featuring Bond with a dead seagull on his head, to John Barry’s fantastic score and Shirley Bassey’s delightfully over-the-top performance of the title song and a thrilling (as usual) climax. Loads of memorable one liners, fabulous ladies and our first onscreen venture into ‘Q’s laboratory. Goldfinger set the tone for what would follow, through the Eighties.
Just found out today that I was born on the day of Goldfinger’s World Premiere – so Goldfinger and I will both be 50 in September!!