Goldfinger
Academy Award × 1
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Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
What critics thought
Broadly celebrated as the Bond film that locked in the template — gadgets, villains, and Connery at his most commanding — Goldfinger earned near-unanimous praise from contemporary critics, with dissent coming mainly from those who felt the gadgetry was crowding out other pleasures. The performances of Gert Fröbe and Honor Blackman drew particular attention, and the film's tone of gleeful self-mockery was widely noted, even by the few who found it occasionally excessive.
“two hours of unmissable fantasy”
The Guardian
“superbly engineered. It is fast, it is most entertainingly preposterous and it is exciting.”
Derek Prouse·The Sunday Times
“absurd, funny and vile”
Penelope Gilliatt·The Observer
“even tenser, louder, wittier, more ingenious and more impossible than 'From Russia with Love'... [a] brilliant farrago”
Alan Dent·The Illustrated London News
Genres
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Cast & Crew
DirectorGuy Hamilton
StarringSean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Harold Sakata, Shirley Eaton
ComposerJohn Barry
Goldfinger
Academy Award × 1
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
What critics thought
Broadly celebrated as the Bond film that locked in the template — gadgets, villains, and Connery at his most commanding — Goldfinger earned near-unanimous praise from contemporary critics, with dissent coming mainly from those who felt the gadgetry was crowding out other pleasures. The performances of Gert Fröbe and Honor Blackman drew particular attention, and the film's tone of gleeful self-mockery was widely noted, even by the few who found it occasionally excessive.
“two hours of unmissable fantasy”
The Guardian
“superbly engineered. It is fast, it is most entertainingly preposterous and it is exciting.”
Derek Prouse·The Sunday Times
“absurd, funny and vile”
Penelope Gilliatt·The Observer
“even tenser, louder, wittier, more ingenious and more impossible than 'From Russia with Love'... [a] brilliant farrago”
Alan Dent·The Illustrated London News
Genres
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Cast & Crew
DirectorGuy Hamilton
StarringSean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Harold Sakata, Shirley Eaton
ComposerJohn Barry
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