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Topic: Goldfinger Feature review
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Laksmi Breathwaite
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Las Vegas
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted December 13, 2012 11:11 PM
Goldfinger super 8mm color sound feature on 4 X 600 foot reels. This is a beautiful print with fantastic colors. It is the best 007 film with the best Bond Sean Connery. Eon/United Artists. Director Guy Hamilton; Producer Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli; Screenplay Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn; Camera Ted Moore; Editor Peter Hunt; Music John Barry; Art Director Ken Adam
Sean Connery Honor Blackman Gert Frobe Shirley Eaton Tania Mallet Harold Sakata
There's not the least sign of staleness in this third sample of the Bond 007 formula. Some liberties have been taken with Ian Fleming's original novel but without diluting its flavor. The mood is set before the credits show up, with Sean Connery making an arrogant pass at a chick and spying a thug creeping up from behind; he's reflected in the femme's eyeballs. So he heaves the heavy into bathful of water and connects it deftly to a handy supply of electricity.
Thereafter the plot gets its teeth into the real business, which is the duel between Bond and Goldfinger. The latter plans to plant an atomic bomb in Fort Knox and thus contaminate the US hoard of the yellow stuff so that it can't be touched, and thus increase tenfold the value of his own gold, earned by hard international smuggling.
Connery repeats his suave portrayal of the punch-packing Bond, who can find his way around the wine-list as easily as he can negotiate a dame. But, if backroom boys got star billing, it's deserved by Ken Adam, who has designed the production with a wealth of enticing invention. There's a ray-gun that cuts through any metal, and threatens to carve Bond down the middle. There's Goldfinger's automobile - cast in solid gold. And his farm is stocked with furniture that moves at the press of a button. Bond has his famous Aston Martin car from Q branch with machineguns,oil slick,tire tearing Ben Hur wheels, and ejection seat.
Honor Blackman makes a fine, sexy partner for Bond. As Pussy Galore, Goldfinger's pilot for his private plane, she does not take things lying down - she's a judo expert who throws Bond until the final k.o. when she's tumbled herself.
Gert Frobe, too, is near-perfect casting as the resourceful Goldfinger, an amoral tycoon who treats gold-cornering as a business like any other.
1964: Best Sound Effects
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David Ollerearnshaw
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From: Penistone Sheffield UK
Registered: Oct 2012
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posted December 14, 2012 06:20 AM
My favourite 'Connery' 'Bond' I bought this from Derann as soon as it was released by them. Not sure which negative it would have come from though? Print & sound are first rate. I originality had it mounted on 2 1200ft spools, there's a perfect break where Bond is tranquillised on the plane, it does mean cutting the film though. Now mounted on 1 2400ft spool.
Goldfinger has just about everything going for it. Action, humour, gadgets, music, and a great theme song. Think everything was just perfect in the film.
Laksmi, really nice screen shots to complement your review.
Oscar for Best Effects, Sound Effects Norman Wanstall who visited Blackpool convention a couple of times.
Also reminded me of the dinner Derann held at Pinewood in 84? The house was used and the gardens too. After the dinner we were trying to find the exit, but where we entered was closed (the famous gateway). We ended up taking a wrong turn I'm sure we drove down where Bond ended up crashing DB5.
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