Goldfinger is the James Bond movie that defined the series and cemented Sean Connery as James Bond 007. This Goldfinger video essay explores the making of Goldfinger, and analyses how this movie took James Bond from being a popular British spy series into a global cinematic sensation. Because Goldfinger is more than a James Bond movie – it is THE James Bond movie, and 60 years after it was made it continues to have an impact on cinema and popular culture.

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Goldfinger is a 1964 spy film starring Sean Connery as James Bond 007. It is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film's plot has Bond investigating gold smuggling by Auric Goldfinger and eventually uncovering Goldfinger's plans to contaminate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.



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00:00 Introduction
03:20 From Fleming to Film
09:45 Goldfinger precredits scene
12:44 Shirley Bassey's Goldfinger
14:18 Felix, Miami, and the golden girl
18:37 Q and the DB5
21:41 Gert Frobe's Goldfinger
26:22 Switzerland
28:43 'No, Mr Bond I expect you to die!'
30:55 Kentucky blues
34:37 The Fort Knox plot
36:20 Honor Blackman's P*ssy Galore
40:46 Operation Grandslam
44:49 James Bond will return

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