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Sean Connery,
Sean Connery,
Gert Fröbe,
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Guy Hamilton,
Guy Hamilton
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: MGM
: Action, Foreign, Espionage, James Bond, UK
: 110 min.
: English, French
: English, French
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With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy gadgetry, extravagant sets, and kitschy jokes. Bond (Sean Connery) has to prevent a notorious gold smuggler, appropriately named Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), from robbing Fort Knox. Goldfinger is surrounded by evil henchmen such as the sexy female pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) and Oddjob (Harold Sakata), who kills with his steel-rimmed bowler hats. In order to stop Goldfinger, Bond has to survive several perilous situations, including a huge, deadly laser. Goldfinger is one of the most popular films in the James Bond series, and it set the tone not only for the rest of the series but also for most of the action/adventure films of the late '60s and early '70s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
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by dormammu
March 11, 2004 - 7:56 AM PST
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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I will own up to not having seen many James Bond movies. In fact, the only other one I've seen as of this writing is Goldeneye. (And that was only because I really liked the Nintendo 64 game based on that movie.)
Goldfinger, however, is excellent. It's a well paced movie and fun to watch. There are some cheese moments, though. (Like Oddjob and his DEADLY HAT. Who thought that one up?) The only thing that bugged me was that Connery couldn't keep a consistent accent through the movie. Sometimes he sounded british (as James Bond should) and sometimes lapsed into his native Scottish accent. Overall, definitely recommended.
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