MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

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 Frobe), 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, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: A
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 (Vistavision)
• Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital 5.1
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV, Color
• Subtitle: Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, Korean
• Features:
  • Audio commentary featuring director Guy Hamilton
  • Audio commentary featuring members of the cast and crew
  • Sean Connery from the set of Goldfinger
  • Screent tests on tour with the Aston Marting D85
  • Honor Blackman open-ended interview
  • The making of Goldfinger featurette
  • 007 mission control: interactive guide into the world of Goldfinger
  • The Goldfinger phenomenon original publicity featurette
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • TV spots
  • Radio communications
  • Image database

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Won Best Sound Effects - 1964 (Norman Wanstall)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  Guy Hamilton

• Producer:

  Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman

• Screenwriter:

  Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn

• Book Author:

  Ian Fleming

• Cinematographer:

  Ted Moore, David Watkin

• Composer (Music Score):

  John Barry

• Songwriter:

  Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley

• Editor:

  Peter Hunt

• Production Designer:

  Ken Adam

• Art Director:

  Peter Murton

• Set Designer:

  Freda Pearson

• Makeup:

  Paul Rabiger

• Special Effects:

  John Stears

REVIEW:

• The third film in the remarkably durable franchise, Goldfinger set the gold standard (naturally) for future James Bond adventures. With the films' signature elements firmly entrenched -- including globe-trotting story, salacious credits sequence, Q's exasperation, and 007's phenomenal abilities with women and antagonists -- Goldfinger began to up the ante. Bond's well-equipped Aston-Martin and Goldfinger's elaborate Fort Knox model presaged future technical extravagance, while Bond's near castration via a giant laser was one more sign of the series' humorous self-awareness. Loquacious villain Auric Goldfinger, lethally hat-throwing Oddjob, and inimitably named Bond girl Pussy Galore were already outrageously tongue-in-cheek baddies long before Mike Myers parodied them in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). Dispatching enemies, making puns, and seducing females with equal aplomb, tough-yet-debonair Sean Connery gracefully walked the line between straight-up action hero and sly burlesque, offering further evidence as to why he would be the definitive 007. Building on its predecessors' success, Goldfinger swiftly became one of the most popular films of 1964 (and Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger" theme a hit single), leading the way for flashier Bond spectaculars. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi