The Bottom Line
Pros
- Coolest pool table ever!
- The name's Connery, Sean Connery, Bond movie operating version 1.0
- Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore
- Gert Frobe as Goldfinger
- John Barry soundtrack
Cons
- Not enough pool and billiards?
Description
- Bond meets girl
- Bond loses girl to being painted to death
- Bond plays golf and hides under a pool table
- Bond gets girl and she's Pussy Galore
- Trouble at Fort Knox
- Felix Leiter eats Kentucky Fried Chicken
- Oddjob dies horribly, he deserves it
- Goldfinger plays his golden harp
- Bourbon, throwing hats, Switzerland, gold... what more could a gal or guy ask for?
- Sean Connery!
Guide Review - Goldfinger (1964) Starring Sean Connery and Honor Blackman
Goldfinger begins with a bang and ends with one, with a bad guy's factory and a presidential plane taking the blasts to open and end the film. In between comes some of the most timeless action and humor of any of the James Bond series.The amazing aforementioned table comes into play at two critical points in the film. The top hoods of America's mafia meet Mr. Goldfinger to shoot a little pool while they debate his latest criminal enterprise. Auric Goldfinger has them gasping for air twice (You Only Live Twice), once when he unveils his map of Fort Knox underlying his pool table as it spins over and upside down, a second time when he poisons them to death with a deadly gas toxin.
The pool table pulls double duty as Double-Oh-Seven peers beneath it and unbeknowst to the bad guys, spies out their dastardly plan--to kill every living person within a mile of the Fort and nuke America's gold with a low-yield cobalt and iodine bomb, making it unusable for 57, no, better make that 58 years. Viva la pool!
