Date of Release
World Premiere 17th September 1964, Odeon Leicester Square,
London
Running Time
130 minutes
James Bond
Sean Connery
Plot
Using a nuclear device supplied by Red China, gold-smuggler
and metallurgist Auric Goldfinger intends to increase the
value of his gold bullion ten-fold by detonating the device
inside Fort Knox, thereby making the 15 billion dollar gold
supply of the United States radioactive for 58 years.
Bond’s Women
Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman)
Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton)
Bonita – the night-club dancer (Nadja Regin)
Dink (Margaret Nolan)
Bond’s Enemies
Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe)
Oddjob (Harold Sakata)
Capungo (Alf Joint)
Bond’s Allies
Felix Leiter (Cec Linder)
Tilly Masterson (Tania Mallet)
‘M’ (Bernard Lee)
Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)
‘Q’
(Desmond Llewelyn)
Bond’s Car
Aston Martin DB5
Bond’s Gadgets
Aston Martin DB5 with accessories: bullet-proof windscreen,
smoke screen, oil sprayer, front-wing machine guns, retractable
rear bullet-proof shield, tyre-slashing hub cap blades, homer
tracking screen, and front passenger ejector seat.
Homing devices for tracking vehicles / people
Main Title Music
‘Goldfinger’ sung by Shirley Bassey
End Title Music
‘Goldfinger’ sung by Shirley Bassey
Music Score
John Barry
Production Design
Ken Adam
Main Titles Designer
Robert Brownjohn
Editor
Peter Hunt
Screenplay
Richard Maibaum & Paul Dehn
Director of Photography
Ted Moore
Director
Guy Hamilton
Producers
*Harry Saltzman & Albert
R. Broccoli
The listing shown is contractual for
the Eastern Hemisphere and is reversed for
the Western Hemisphere.
Film Locations
Pinewood Studios, London, England
Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, England
Esso oil refinery, Stanwell, England (opening sequence)
Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Miami, Florida, USA
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
Stoke Park House, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England
Switzerland
Budget
$2.5 million
Worldwide Box Office
$124.9 million
Worldwide Box Office Gross Income
2002 inflation-adjusted
$726 million
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