Pussy Galore (James Bond) | LGBT Info | Fandom powered by Wikia Pussy Galore (James Bond) Template:James Bond Character Template:Otheruses Pussy Galore is a fictional character from the James Bond film and novel Goldfinger . In the film, she is played by Honor Blackman . Novel biography Edit Template:Spoiler In the novel, Pussy Galore is the only woman in America that runs an organized crime gang. Initially a trapeze artist, her group of women, "Pussy Galore and her Acrobats" were unsuccessful and were later trained as cat burglars . Her group grew into a Harlem lesbian organization known as "The Cement Mixers." In fact, Galore is a lesbian until the end of the novel, at which point she falls in love with Bond. In the novel, her hair is black, and she has the only violet eyes Bond thinks he has ever seen. Her group is enlisted by Goldfinger to aid in "Operation Grand Slam," an operation that would poison the Ft. Knox water supply with nerve gas, and, if successful, would rob the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox of fifteen billion in gold bullion.

Goldfinger enlists the Cement Mixers because he needs a group of criminal women to impersonate nurses in the fake emergency medical teams he plans to send into the poison-stricken Fort Knox. After "Grand Slam" fails, Galore is still working to impersonate a nurse, not a pilot. However, as in the film, she escapes with Bond after Bond kills Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob aboard an airplane. Film biography Edit In the movie, Pussy is given a less murderous past, and a more important role as the head of a group of all-female pilots called Pussy Galore's Flying Circus (a nod to the circus-connection of the crime group in the novel). In the novel, the nerve gas is supposed to be delivered to the water supply by other agents, but in the movie, Pussy's group has the job of spraying it from private planes.

However, it is clear that Pussy thinks the agent is a sleeping gas, and even calls it "Operation Rock-a-bye Baby." Bond's revelation to her that it is an agent of mass murder is the key to turning her into a CIA asset, and given the name of the operation, it's not entirely a joke when Bond comments later, in answering the question of what made her go to the authorities to help him, that somehow he must've appealed "to her maternal instincts." Template:Endspoiler Trivia Pussy Galore (Literary) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Trigger Mortis Pussy Galore is a fictional mafia kingpin who leads the Cement Mixers , a group of female cat burglars operating out of Harlem, New York City . The character appears in the 1959 Ian Fleming novel Goldfinger and was subsequently adapted for the 1964 EON Productions film of the same name , as well as several other appearances . The literary character was later featured in Anthony Horowitz 's 2015 continuation novel Trigger Mortis . Contents Novel biography Goldfinger Born into poverty in the southern United States, Pussy Galore had fell into juvenile delinquency.

Attempting to go straight, she joined the circus and became an acrobat. Soon striking out on her own, she recruited other acrobats and formed a group called "Pussy Galore's Trapeze Flyers", which often performed at carnivals and travelling shows. However, this business failed, and she returned to crime by having the female acrobats utilise their skills in new ways, by working as cat burglars. She found success, and her group soon grew into a gang called the "Cement Mixers", operating out of Harlem, New York City. With the American mafia overwhelmingly populated by men, Galore was the only female gang leader in the United States (at least the only one to be acknowledged by major gangs). Although noted gangs like the Spangled Mob recognise the skill of Galore's gang, the Cement Mixers are still regarded as second-rate by many noted gangs. The organisation itself is believed by many to be a lesbian gang, along with its leader, who Miami boss Jed Midnight describes as voraciously obtaining and consuming the girls she desires "in bunches – like grapes".

Described as wearing a black masculine-cut suit with a high coffee-coloured lace jabot, Galore had "pale, Rupert Brooke good looks" with high cheekbones, a "beautiful jawline", violet eyes, and black hair worn in an "untidy urchin cut". Her group is enlisted by SMERSH treasurer Auric Goldfinger to aid in "Operation Grand Slam," disguised as nurses, in an operation that, if successful, would rob the U.S. gold bullion depository at Fort Knox of fifteen billion dollars in gold bullion. She and her gang were to be well paid for the heist, receiving a generous share of the net bullion gained. After "Operation Grand Slam" fails, she escapes with Bond after he kills Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob in an airplane, although the Cement Mixers have been dissolved due to the death of many of her underlings. Lesbian throughout most of the novel, Galore falls in love with Bond at the end of the book. When alone with Bond, she feels remorse for her misdeeds and reveals that her uncle molested her at the age of twelve. Everyone in her family dismissed her story and she subsequently adopted a homosexual lifestyle.

She figures she will get arrested for the attempted robbery of Fort Knox, but Bond declines to report her participation. As the novel ends, the pair embrace and make love. Trigger Mortis Spoiler warning : This article contains spoilers ! Plot and/or ending details follow. Pussy stays with Bond after the death of Goldfinger and accompanies the spy back to London to avoid investigations by the FBI and CIA . She takes up temporary lodging with Bond in his Chelsea flat and is shown the city's sights by Bond. However, much like with Tiffany Case , his relationship with Pussy gradually deteriorates over time and strains start to show. Later, after Bond had an evening dinner with Logan Fairfax , he witnesses Pussy being kidnapped by two men in a car. The pair race after her and eventually catch up with her and the kidnappers at a large Celtic stone monument in the countryside. There, Pussy is tied up and has her body covered in gold paint, similar to that of Jill Masterton in Miami. Bond hurls two makeshift Molotov cocktails at the men and rescues her. Goldfinger (1964) - FAQ The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff.

Visit our FAQ Help to learn more FAQ How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie? For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Goldfinger can be found here . What is 'Goldfinger' about? When the Bank of England learns that horsebreeder and international jeweller Auric Goldfinger ( Gert Fröbe ) is stockpiling huge amounts of gold and suspects that he is smuggling it out of the country for sale on the international market, M ( Bernard Lee ) sends 007 agent James Bond ( Sean Connery ) to investigate. Bond discovers that Auric is planning Operation Grand Slam, an attack on Fort Knox, which holds the U.S. gold reserve. Is "Goldfinger" based on a book? Most of the James Bond movies are based in some part on the novels of Ian Fleming [1909-1964]. Goldfinger is based on Fleming's 1959 novel of the same name.

It was adapted for the screen by Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn. It is both the third film in the Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as James Bond. Who is singing the title song? Goldfinger is sung by Welsh singer Shirley Bassey. This was her debut in the series and to date, she is the only performer who has sung more than one Bond theme, a total of 3: she also sang the themes for Diamonds are Forever & Moonraker. What exotic places does Bond visit in this movie? In the opening precredit scenes, Bond is shown infiltrating and destroying the house of a drug lord in Mexico. The story then moves to Miami Beach where Bond's holiday is interrupted by Felix Leiter ( Cec Linder ) with orders from M that he should keep his eye on Auric Goldfinger. After catching Goldfinger cheating at gin rummy, Bond returns to London where M briefs him on his next assignment...find out how Goldfinger transports his gold internationally. After catching Goldfinger cheating at golf, Bond follows him to Geneva, Switzerland.

While there, he infiltrates Auric Enterprises, hears about Operation Grand Slam, and twice foils attempts to assassinate Goldfinger by Tilly Masterson ( Tania Mallet ), sister of Jill Masterson ( Shirley Eaton ), whom Goldfinger murdered back in Miami Beach by having her covered in gold paint. Unfortunately, both Bond and Tilly are captured, and Tilly has her neck broken by Oddjob's ( Harold Sakata ) hat. Goldfinger spares Bond's life when Bond informs him that he knows all about Operation Grand Slam. Bond is flown to Baltimore, Maryland and then on to Auric Stud Farm near Bluegrass Fields, Kentucky where he discovers that Operation Grand Slam involves an attempt to irradiate the U.S. gold supply in Fort Knox, making the gold radioactive for 58 years, thereby increasing the value of Goldfinger's gold and plunging the U.S. into economic chaos. Did Shirley Eaton really die from the gold paint she was covered in? Of course not! The myth goes that Eaton, who played Bond's love interest, Jill Masterson, died from asphyxiation after her body was covered with gold paint, because the body "breathes" through the skin.

So long as a person is breathing through his or her nose or mouth, s/he will not die from asphyxiation, no matter how much the body is covered in paint (or any other substance). Shirley Eaton is still alive. The full story is seen here . For the effect in the film, the producers and makeup people must have taken into account that even though a person can't die from the process, the amount of time they'd need to film the scene and probably did it as quickly as possible to avoid any harmful effects. Mythbusters did an experiment where Jamie Hineman was painted in gold paint. Though there was no evidence that he was suffering any effects of skin asphyxiation, the paramedics on the show did measure his blood pressure following a short run on a treadmill and found it was quite high. What kind of car does Bond drive in this movie? Bond's Bentley from From Russia with Love (1963) is replaced with a silver 1964 Aston Martin DB5 . It comes equipped with bullet-proof windows, revolving license plates, and a homing device with a range of 150 miles.

For defense mechanisms, it has a smokescreen, oil slick, rear bullet-proof screen, left and right front wing machine guns, and a passenger ejector seat. Did the Aston Martin DB5 have any special features not seen in the film? Yes. While the left rear tail-light cluster dispensed oil, the right rear tail-light cluster would have dispensed calthrops (three-pronged spikes for puncturing an enemy's tires). The front and rear bumpers could extend to act as overriders. Inside the car, there was a telephone built into secret compartment in the door. Finally, augmenting the twin machine guns, Bond had a weapons tray beneath the driver's seat containing a Mauser machine pistol, an AR7 folding rifle, a telescopic sight, a silencer, a hand grenade, and a throwing knife. There have been suggestions that the calthrops were dropped from the script as they might have encouraged kids to puncture tires, though the idea was resurrected for Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) 33 years later. Why do the soldiers at Fort Knox all fall over at the same time, and why do they all wake up at the same time?

Felix Leiter's line about Pussy Galore ( Honor Blackman ) "switching the gas canisters" has led many people to think that the poison gas was switched for knockout gas. In fact, Pussy has just swapped the deadly gas canisters for the practice canisters she and her girls used in training. The soldiers have been told to pretend to fall over when the planes pass overhead. When the Geiger counter tells Felix and his men that the bomb has arrived at Fort Knox and, therefore, can be recovered during the battle and not used to blow up another target, the order is given for the soldiers to stop pretending and get into position for the assault. Interestingly, if the guards had been gassed for real, they wouldn't have fallen over nearly as fast as they pretended to, i.e., it would take some time for the gas to take effect. Wouldn't an atomic bomb have simply vaporised Fort Knox and all the land around it, not just made the gold radioactive? No, because Goldfinger is not using an actual nuclear bomb but a "dirty bomb" - a standard explosive which disperses radioactive materials over a wide area without any actual nuclear fission taking place.

Goldfinger just wanted to make the gold inaccessible to the US government, rather than destroying it completely. It's probably GF's obsessive love of gold itself that keeps him from destroying it. Who is the Korean soldier lying down aboard the hijacked plane at the end of the film? The Korean soldier helped Goldfinger hijack the plane. He can be seen in four shots: standing behind Goldfinger when he first appears; waving his hands in the air when the fight breaks out; lying still on the ground as Goldfinger is sucked out of the plane; and lying still on the ground as James Bond gets up and goes to the cockpit. The rest of his role in the scene (including being knocked out/killed) appears to have been edited out. How does the movie end? Goldfinger and his crew blow their way through the front gate of Fort Knox and laser through the steel-barricaded front door. The U.S. military forces suddenly jump into action and overtake Goldfinger's men. Goldfinger removes his coat to reveal himself in the uniform of a brigadier general and escapes the Fort.

Goldfinger had previously had Bond handcuffed to the ticking bomb, but Bond manages to get the keys off the body of one of Goldfinger's henchmen who had been tossed off a balcony by Oddjob when he (the henchman) tried to disarm the bomb. Bond attempts to disarm the bomb, but Oddjob attacks him. In the fight that ensues, Bond ducks and catches Oddjob's lethal hat. He tries to throw it at Oddjob but misses, the hat lodging in the bars of the vault. When Oddjob goes to retrieve his hat, Bond leaps at the bars with a high voltage cable, electrocuting Oddjob. Returning to the bomb, Bond tries again to disarm it, but he can't figure out how. Just as the timer reaches "007", an atomic specialist reaches over and turns off the switch. Felix informs Bond that it was Pussy's call to Washington that got them to switch the gas in the canisters. Bond is invited to the White House by the president. When he gets on the jet, however, he finds that Goldfinger has hijacked it and that Pussy is at the controls.

Bond and Goldfinger struggle for a revolver that goes off, blowing out a window and sucking Goldfinger out of the cabin. Unfortunately, the decompression has made it so that Pussy cannot control the jet. In the final scenes, Bond and Pussy eject themselves from the jet and parachute to the ground, where they cover themselves with a parachute so that they won't get picked up too soon. What are some of the differences from the novel? Bond's mission to Mexico is a little different, he only kills a drug crazed Mexican bandit. Later, Junius DuPont from "Casino Royale" approaches Bond and asks him to expose Goldfinger as a card cheat. Jill and Tilly's last name is Masterton. Bond and Jill don't make love in Miami but on a train going to New York. Jill isn't killed immediately after the love making scene. Goldfinger isn't working for the Chinese but for SMERSH, of whom he is the treasurer. After the golf game, Goldfinger invites Bond to his house. Bond snoops around and finds Goldfinger is filming him. He exposes the film and makes it look like Goldfinger's pet cat is to blame.

Goldfinger is wise to this and lets Oddjob have the cat for supper. In Switzerland, Bond witnesses Goldfinger making a gold bar drop for SMERSH, which he intercepts. Tilly only tries to kill Goldfinger outside his factory at night, there we learn about Jill's demise. The two are caught outside. Once inside, Bond repeatedly head butts Goldfinger but is knocked out by Oddjob. The laser is a table saw. While it gets closer, Oddjob works Bond's pressure points. After Bond says he'll work for Goldfinger, he's knocked out again. Once in America, Bond is put in a small room next to Tilly, who is still alive at this point. They are told to do secretarial work for "Operation Grand Slam". The plan is to actually rob the U.S. Gold Depository while beforehand poisoning Fort Knox's water supply. Pussy Galore is a straight-out lesbian and Tilly has a crush on her. Pussy does not work directly for Goldfinger, she is another gangster hired for the job. The gangsters are not gassed, they are merely a way to find groups to pin the crime on while Goldfinger gets away with his share of the bullion.

While on a reconnaissance flight, Bond tapes a distress message to the inside seat of the plane's toilet. The first part of the plan appears to be a success and all of Goldfinger's team, dressed as doctors and nurses, go through the town in a train. The entire town appears to have died as bodies have littered the streets. The gang never enters the depository, a helicopter sounds an alarm that signals the soldiers to spring to life just as the bomb placing unit begins to move in. During the shootout, Tilly is killed by Oddjob's hat and the gang escapes in the train. Felix Leiter shows up, having gotten Bond's message, and hands Bond a missile launcher. Bond fires but only hits the back of the train. Before Bond gets on a plane for home, he is forced to get a typhus inoculation which knocks him out. He wakes up tied to a seat in the plane, Goldfinger and his crew having taken it over. Pussy Galore, dressed as a stewardess, tells Bond she's with him. After Bond notes Oddjob is relaxed, he punctures the window next to him with a knife which sucks Oddjob out of the plane.

Goldfinger then attacks Bond, but Bond strangles him to death. He has the pilots crash the plane and only he and Pussy survive. On the trip home, Pussy tells Bond she is only a lesbian and a criminal because, as a child, her uncle raped her. The two then make love. Pussy Galore | LGBT Info | Fandom powered by Wikia Template:Otheruses4 Template:James Bond Character Pussy Galore is a fictional character from the James Bond film and novel Goldfinger . In the film, she is played by Honor Blackman . Novel Edit In the novel, Pussy Galore is the only known woman in America who runs an organized crime gang. Initially a trapeze artist, her group of circus performing cat-women, "Pussy Galore and her Abrocats" were unsuccessful and were later trained as cat burglars . Her group grew into a Harlem lesbian organization known as "The Cement Mixers." Pussy Galore is herself a lesbian. In the novel, she has black hair, pale skin and the only violet eyes Bond has ever seen. She is about in her thirties, her voice low and attractive.

Her group is enlisted by Goldfinger to aid in "Operation Grand Slam," an operation that would poison the Ft. Knox air supply with nerve gas, and, if successful, would rob the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox of fifteen billion in gold bullion. Goldfinger enlists the Cement Mixers because he needs a group of criminal women to impersonate nurses in the fake emergency medical teams he plans to send into the poison-stricken Fort Knox. After "Grand Slam" fails, Galore runs into Bond impersonating a stewardess and, as in the film, she escapes with Bond after he kills Goldfinger aboard an airplane. Pussy explains to Bond that she became a lesbian after she was sexually abused by her uncle at an early age. Pussy's past (which somewhat explains her name) is suppressed in the movie, her sexuality is never openly discussed yet traits of lesbianism are thinly veiled throughout the film. [1] Her original band of Amazon catwomen still feature in the film as they did in the book. They are in keeping with a long list of 1950s movies and books about dangerous bands of cat-woman lesbians.

Film Edit Concerned about censors, the film's producers thought about changing her name to "Kitty Galore", but kept the original name when British newspapers began to refer to Honor Blackman as "Pussy" in the lead up to production. Blackman, aged 37 at filming, is the oldest actress to take the role of a Bond girl in the series of Bond films from EON Productions . Blackman and Diana Rigg are furthermore the only two Bond girls who are older than Bond himself; Sean Connery was only 34 when filming Goldfinger, while Rigg was 31 when filming On Her Majesty's Secret Service opposite the then 30-year-old George Lazenby . Pussy ranked number 2 in a poll of favourite Bond Girls in 2007, beaten only by Ursula Andress 's character Honey Ryder . [2] Pussy is first seen after Bond is knocked out with a tranquilizer gun in Goldfinger's private jet. She claims she's a "damn good pilot" and seems at first immune to Bond's trademark boyish charms.

Pussy is the leader of Pussy Galore's Flying Circus, a group of professional women aviators in connection with Goldfinger's "Operation: Grand Slam" (played in certain scenes by stuntmen in blonde wigs). Pussy is seen later using judo on Bond after catching him eavesdropping on Goldfinger's plan. She turns him in to Goldfinger. Bond later seduces Pussy and, turning against Goldfinger, she switches the deadly nerve gas to be used on Fort Knox with a harmless replacement as well as alerting the Central Intelligence Agency of her employer's scheme. After Bond foils Goldfinger's plan, the now fugitive millionaire forces Pussy to participate in hijacking the President's private plane carrying Bond to the White House. Bond defeats Goldfinger and saves Galore from the crashing plane and they make love in an unknown region under a parachute. Honor Blackman, in the Bond Girls Are Forever documentary, mentions she knows that Galore was written as a lesbian, and played the role as if she had been abused in the past.

Pussy Galore | Villains Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Type of Villain Minion, Femme Fatale, Redeemed Villainess Pussy Galore is the tertiary antagonist turned supporting protagonist of the James Bond film " Goldfinger ". She is Auric Goldfinger 's personal pilot and henchwoman. However, she becomes the film's Bond girl near the end of the film after Bond convinces her to help him against her former ally/employer. In the film, she was portrayed by Honor Blackman. Contents [ show ] Book history In the novel, Pussy Galore is the only woman in America that runs a gang. Initially a trapeze artist her group of women, "Pussy Galore and her Abrocats" were unsuccessful and were later trained as cat burglars. Her group grew into a lesbian organization known as "The Cement Mixers." In fact, Galore is a lesbian throughout most of the novel until the end of the book, where she falls in love with Bond. Her group is enlisted by Goldfinger to aid in "Operation Grand Slam," an operation that, if successful, would rob the U.S. gold bullion depository at Fort Knox of fifteen billion in gold bullion.

After "Grand Slam" fails, she escapes with Bond after he kills Goldfinger and his henchman Oddjob . Film history In the film, Pussy Galore is Auric Goldfinger's personal pilot and commander of "Pussy Galore's Flying Circus." Her main objective in the film is to have her flying circus dispense an airborne nerve gas over Fort Knox so that Goldfinger and his communist Chinese allies can break into the U.S. gold bullion depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky and detonate a nuclear weapon. Bond, with Galore's help, foils Goldfinger's plan by persuading her not to spray the nerve gas over Fort Knox, thus allowing the U.S. Army to close in around Goldfinger and stop his operation. Trivia Pussy is one of few villains to switch sides. She helps Bond in the end. "Pussy" is a term referring to a cat (pussycat). It is also a slang term referring to a woman's vagina. In the Austin Powers series, a female hench-person of Dr. Evil's is named Alotta Fagina, a further pun on Pussy Galore's name.

Navigational 007 James Bond Movies 007 James Bond Movies Thunderball ( 1965 ) is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series after Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), and the fourth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond . It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming , which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham . It was directed by Terence Young with screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins . The film follows Bond's mission to find two NATO nuclear bombs stolen by SPECTRE , who holds the world to ransom for £100 million in diamonds, in exchange for not destroying an unspecified major city in either England or the United States (later revealed to be Miami ). The search leads Bond to the Bahamas , where he encounters Emilio Largo , the card-playing, eye-patch wearing SPECTRE Number Two. Backed by the CIA and Largo's mistress, Bond's search culminates into an underwater battle with Largo's henchmen.

Thunderball was associated with a legal dispute in 1961 when former Ian Fleming collaborators Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham sued him shortly after the 1961 publication of the Thunderball novel, claiming he based it upon the screenplay the trio had earlier written in a failed cinematic translation of James Bond. The lawsuit was settled out of court and Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman fearing a rival McClory film allowed him to retain certain screen rights to the novel's story, plot, and characters. The film had a complex production, with four different units and about a quarter of the film consisting of underwater scenes. The film was a success, earning a total of $141.2 million worldwide, exceeding the earnings of the three previous Bond films and breaking box office records on the first weekend of opening in France and Italy. In 1966, John Stears won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects , and production designer Ken Adam was also nominated for a BAFTA award. Thunderball is to date, the most financially successful movie of the series and adjusting for inflation made the equivalent of $966.4 million in 2008 currency. Although a commercial success, Thunderball received mixed reviews from critics.

Some critics and viewers showered praise on the film and branded it as a welcome addition to the series, while others complained of the repetitively monotonous aquatic action and prolonged show duration. Posted by Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger Pussy Galore is the main Bond Girl in "Goldfinger".Pussy is the owner of a flying circus, the staff of which consists entirely of shapely female pilots. However, she is also part of Auric Goldfinger's plan to rob Fort Knox. Prior to Goldfinger's men moving in, her pilots are to fly over the area, spraying it with knockout gas to immobilize all personnel in the immediate area.Pussy identifies herself as "the outdoors type" and apparently plans to use her cut of the proceeds from the robbery to buy her own tropical island and "go back to nature."A judo expert, she is very tough and not easily moved by 007's charm. In fact, it is hinted that she may be a lesbian. However, she is eventually seduced by Bond, who informs her that the gas Goldfinger intends to use is actually deadly - she had believed it to be knockout gas with no lasting effect on those targeted with it.

Pussy then reveals that she does have a conscience, by contacting the CIA to inform them of Goldfinger's plan, and switching the gas for another variety which has no effect at all, allowing the CIA to set a trap for Goldfinger.She does not appear in any other film in the series. Posted by Synopsis of Goldfinger In the pre-title sequence, James Bond ( Sean Connery ) infiltrates a Mexican drug lord 's base by water wearing a dry suit with a snorkel camouflaged as a seagull . He destroys a hidden building with plastic explosives and defeats an assassin by electrocuting him in a bathtub. The main story begins in Miami Beach , Florida , at the Fontainebleau Hotel with Central Intelligence Agency agent Felix Leiter ( Cec Linder ) delivering a message to Bond from M to watch Auric Goldfinger ( Gert Fröbe ). Bond foils Goldfinger's cheating at gin rummy by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson ( Shirley Eaton ). After blackmailing Goldfinger into losing, Bond and Jill consummate their new relationship in Bond's hotel suite.

Following an unflattering remark concerning The Beatles (the entire production was filmed and released during the height of Beatlemania ), Bond is knocked out by Goldfinger's Korean manservant Oddjob ( Harold Sakata ), who then covers Jill in gold paint, supposedly killing her by epidermal suffocation. In London, Bond learns that his true mission is determining how Goldfinger transports gold internationally. Prior to his assignment he is issued an Aston Martin DB5 from Q modified with several gadgets. He plays and wins a high-stakes golf game against Goldfinger with a recovered Nazi gold bar at stake. Goldfinger, who was caught cheating during the game, warns Bond to stay out of his business by having Oddjob decapitate a statue by throwing his steel-rimmed top hat. Undeterred, Bond follows him to Switzerland, where he unintentionally foils an assassination attempt on Goldfinger by Tilly Masterson ( Tania Mallet ) to avenge the death of her sister, Jill. Bond sneaks into Goldfinger's plant and overhears him talking to a Red Chinese agent about "Operation Grand Slam." Leaving, he encounters Tilly as she is about to make a second attempt on Goldfinger's life, but accidentally trips an alarm.

Bond and Tilly attempt to escape, but Oddjob breaks Tilly's neck with his hat. Bond is soon captured and Goldfinger has Bond tied to a table underneath an industrial laser , which slowly begins to slice the table in half. Bond then lies to Goldfinger that British Intelligence knows about Grand Slam, causing Goldfinger to spare Bond's life until he can determine how much the spy actually knows. Goldfinger about to slice Bond in half with a laser. Bond is transported by Goldfinger's private Lockheed JetStar , flown by his personal pilot, Pussy Galore , to his stud farm near Fort Knox , Kentucky. Bond escapes and witnesses Goldfinger's meeting with US mafiosi , who have brought the materials he needs for Operation Grand Slam. At the end of the briefing, one of the mafiosi asked Goldfinger to pay him immediately, rather than wait a few days for the larger return from Operation Grand Slam, as Goldfinger has just outlined. Goldfinger accepts and leads him out of the conference room. The rest of them are killed by poison gas.

The dissenting mafioso is escorted to the airport in a Lincoln Continental driven by Oddjob, who kills him before continuing on to a wrecking yard where the car is crushed into a cube with the body inside. Bond is recaptured after hearing the details of Operation Grand Slam, but soon learns additional information from Goldfinger himself. He intends to irradiate the US gold supply stored at the United States Gold Depository at Fort Knox with an atomic device , thereby rendering it useless for 58 years and greatly increasing the value of his own gold. This will also give the Chinese increased buying power following economic chaos in the West. Operation Grand Slam begins with the women pilots of Pussy Galore's Flying Circus spraying lethal nerve gas over Fort Knox to dispatch its garrison. However, Bond had seduced Pussy and persuaded her to contact the CIA, who replaced the poison with a harmless gas. The military personnel of Fort Knox convincingly play dead until they are certain that they can prevent the criminals escaping the base with the bomb.

They choose this plan because Goldfinger had earlier suggested that if thwarted at Fort Knox, there was no telling where he might explode the device, so the CIA knew their scheme had to trap both Goldfinger and the bomb beyond any reasonable hope of escape. Goldfinger's Chinese agents gain entry to the vault. Oddjob handcuffs Bond to the atomic device and lowers both into the vault. As Goldfinger and his men prepare to leave, the Army troops surround them and all but wipe them out. Goldfinger has planned for every contingency, however: he takes off his coat, revealing a US Army uniform and kills his Chinese assistant and the troops seeking to open the vault, before escaping. Goldfinger's henchman Kisch , forced to retreat to the vault, intends to shut off the bomb but Oddjob throws him off a balcony to his death. Bond retrieves the man's keys and unlocks his handcuffs, but before he can disarm the bomb, Oddjob races down the stairs and attacks. Bond manages to duck under Oddjob's lethal hat, severing a nearby electrical line, and the ensuing fight proves that Oddjob is the superior combatant. Finally, Bond retrieves the hat and tries to throw it himself without success.

It wedges in between two of the bars of the vault. When Oddjob tries to recover it, Bond reaches the severed cable and brushes the exposed wiring with the metal gate, electrocuting Oddjob because of the metal in his own hat. Turning to the bomb, Bond manages to force the lock by hammering on it with a pair of gold bars, but the mechanism inside baffles him. With the clock winding down, Bond tries to yank one of the cables, but an atomic specialist comes over and turns off a switch seconds before detonation, the troops having forced entry into the vault in the meantime. With Fort Knox safe, Bond is invited to the White House for a meeting with the US president. He boards a military Lockheed JetStar for Washington, D.C. , but Goldfinger has forced Pussy Galore to hijack it and fly to Cuba. Bond and Goldfinger struggle for the latter's gold-plated revolver and accidentally shoots a window, creating an explosive decompression of the aircraft. Goldfinger is sucked out of the cabin. Bond rescues Galore, and they parachute safely from the aircraft before it crashes.

Posted by Goldfinger ( 1964 ) is the third spy film in the James Bond series , and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond . It is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming . The film stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman , and was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton . The story has Bond following gold smuggler Auric Goldfinger , who plans a nuclear detonation inside the Fort Knox gold depository . The film was the first official Bond blockbuster and made cinematic history by recouping its production costs in record-setting time, despite a budget equal to that of the two preceding films combined. Goldfinger was also the first Bond film to use a pop star to sing the theme song during the titles, a hallmark that would follow for every Bond film since except On Her Majesty's Secret Service . Goldfinger was originally released on 17 September 1964, in the United Kingdom, and on 21 December 1964, in the United States.

To promote the film, the two Aston Martin DB5s were showcased at the 1964 New York World's Fair , and it was dubbed "the most famous car in the world".Sales of the car rose. Corgi Toys began its decades-long relationship with the Bond franchise, producing a toy of the car. It became the biggest selling toy of 1964. The film's success also led to licensed tie-in clothing, dress shoes , action figures , board games , jigsaw puzzles , lunch boxes , toys , record albums , trading cards and slot cars . The film was both a critical and financial success. The film's $3 million budget was recouped in two weeks, and it broke box office records in multiple countries around the world. Goldfinger went on to be included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest grossing film of all time. The film grossed a total of $51,081,062 in the United States. At the 1965 Academy Awards , Norman Wanstall won the Academy Award for Sound Editing for his work on Goldfinger. Barry was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score for a Motion Picture .

Ken Adam was nominated for the BAFTA for Best British Art Direction . The American Film Institute has honoured the film four times: ranking it No. 90 for best movie quote ("A martini. Shaken, not stirred ."), No. 53 for best song ("Goldfinger"), No. 49 for best villain (Auric Goldfinger), and No. 71 for most thrilling film . In 2006, Entertainment Weekly and IGN both named Goldfinger as the best Bond movie, while MSN named it as the second best, behind its predecessor , and also named Pussy Galore as the second best Bond girl as did IGN . In 2008, Total Film named Goldfinger as the best film in the series. An Internet Movie Database poll in 1999, based on 665 votes, named Goldfinger as the most sinister Bond villain. Another poll in 2006, based on 16416 votes also named Goldfinger the best Bond villain. The Times placed Goldfinger and Oddjob second and third on their list of the best Bond villains in 2008.They also named the Aston Martin DB5 as the best car in the films.

Danny Peary wrote that Goldfinger is “the best of the James Bond films starring Sean Connery…There’s lots of humor, gimmicks, excitement, an amusing yet tense gold contest between Bond and Goldfinger, thrilling fights to the death between Bond and Oddjob and Bond and Goldfinger, and a fascinating central crime…Most enjoyable, but too bad Eaton’s part isn’t longer and that Frobe’s Goldfinger, a heavy but nimble intellectual in the Sydney Greenstreet tradition, never appeared in another Bond film.” Based on 47 reviews which were mostly published after the film's release on Rotten Tomatoes , 96% of critics gave the film positive reviews only after From Russia with Love, which received a 97%, and Dr. No, with a 98% score. The distributor Park Circus theatrically re-released Goldfinger in the UK on 27 July 2007 at one-hundred-and-fifty multiplex cinemas, on digital prints. The re-release put the film twelfth at the weekly box office.

Posted by Sean Connery The First Generation of James Bond Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), best known as Sean Connery, is an Academy Award , Golden Globe , and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer . He is best known for portraying the character James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables . His film career also includes such notable films as Marnie , Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , The Hunt for Red October , Dragonheart , and The Rock . Connery has been polled as the "greatest living Scot"and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2000. In 1989, he was proclaimed the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine, and in 1999, at the age of 69, he was voted the Sexiest Man of the Century.

Posted by Daniela Bianchi as Bond Girl Tatiana Romanova Daniela Bianchi, born 31 January 1942, is an Italian actress, whose best known part was Tatiana Romanova in the 1963 James Bond movie From Russia with Love . Born in Rome , she was the 1st runner-up in the 1960 Miss Universe contest, where she was also voted Miss Photogenic by the press. Her film career began in 1958. In From Russia with Love her voice was dubbed by Barbara Jefford . She made a number of French and Italian movies after From Russia with Love, the last being Scacco Internazionale in 1968. One of her later films was Operation Kid Brother (also known as OK Connery and Operation Double 007), which was a James Bond spoof filmed in English (though Bianchi was again dubbed) and starring Sean Connery 's brother, Neil Connery. In 1970, she retired from acting to marry a Genoan shipping magnate, and they have a son. Posted by "No, Mr. Bond.

I Expect You To Die!" The Red-Hot Story Behind ‘Goldfinger’s Laser Scene "No, Mr. Bond. I Expect You To Die!" The Red-Hot Story Behind ‘Goldfinger’s Laser Scene Gert Fröbe and Sean Connery in ‘Goldfinger’ By Adam K. Raymond Forget all those high-tech gizmos and fancy-pants fashion accessories. James Bond may be an international man of mystery, but one thing about 007 is obvious: He lives for sex. Threatening Bond’s manhood therefore threatens his existence, something few characters have known better than the titular villain in Goldfinger. On the eve of the new Bond movie SPECTRE ’s release, we’ve listened to the 1964 film’s DVD commentary tracks and dug through a handful of books to go behind-the-scenes of one of the most iconic Bond sequences ever shot: the tense, four minute stand-off that brings a laser within inches of 007’s crotch. Related: 13 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Goldfinger’ But first, let’s go back to the original novel, which was written in 1959, before the first laser was even built.

Author Ian Fleming’s version of the scene has Bond staring down the blade of a circular saw as it whirrs menacingly toward him. Goldfinger co-screenwriter Richard Maibaum knew he had to change that. If the circular saw remained “we were sure audiences would find the episode old-fashioned, hackneyed and ridiculous,” Maibaum says in the 1999 book License to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films. “We substituted an industrial laser beam, a development as fresh as tomorrow, for the antiquated circular saw.” It would be Maibaum’s second greatest contribution to the scene, surpassed only this exchange: Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?” Goldfinger: “No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!” Watch part of the scene: But the villain —an international gold smuggler who Bond’s been tailing — doesn’t get what he wants. Despite having Bond (Sean Connery, at the peak of his 007 powers) under his thumb and just seconds from death, Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) releases 007 after he’s convinced that the spy knows the details of his evil “Operation Grand Slam.” It’s not true.

Bond knows nothing more than the plot’s name, which he picked up while spying on Goldfinger. It’s a game of chicken that Bond wins with a bluff, saving his life and allowing him to eventually take down Goldfinger before he accomplishes his master plan: destroying Fort Knox. The scene may be simple, but the technology in it was anything but. The laser was so new at the time of the film’s release that even scientists were struggling to come up with practical applications. And most people who would be paying to see Goldfinger would have likely not even heard of it. That’s why Maibaum included some crystal-clear exposition near the beginning of the scene. “You are looking at an industrial laser, which admits an extraordinary light not to be found in nature. It can project a spot on the moon, or at closer range, cut through solid metal. I will show you,” says Goldfinger, the big-bellied, gold-hoarding baddie expertly played by German character actor Fröbe. (His voice, it should be noted, was provided by the actor Michael Collins, who dubbed dialogue for the non-English speaking Fröbe.) Related: Who Is the Best Bond?

We Make the Case For Each One With Maibaum having solved the problem of explaining the technology, director Guy Hamilton set out to tackle the challenge of capturing it on film. First, he tried the real thing. “They brought a real laser which looked great, a pencil thin line,” optical effects supervisor Cliff Culley says on the DVD’s commentary track. “But as soon as you turned all the studio lights on, it disappeared.” Hamilton resorted to plan B: inserting the glowing ruby light of the laser during post-production. But the table itself still had to be cut to give the impression that the laser was slicing through the metal. “We had to pre-cut the area which was going to melt and very carefully fill the hole in with solder to make the top look like gold,” special effects technician Bert Luxford says on the commentary track. The laser beam getting closer During filming, Luxford was under the table with a welder’s torch burning a line through the table. “I followed my cues exactly and was listening to Gert and Sean’s dialogue carefully, too, as I knew it would end, and laser switch off, after Sean mentioned 'Operation Grand Slam.’ I was about three inches from his crotch when I stopped,” Luxford recalls in his book Albert J.

Luxford, the Gimmick Man. “As I got nearer and nearer to his crotch, Sean was sweating a bit. I hate the thought of ever injuring an actor, but 'there’ would have been awful!” Read More Connery actually spent a dreadful three days strapped to a table in Pinewood Studios London lot shooting the scene. Hamilton “took pleasure in making things difficult for me,” Connery says in a Blu-ray featurette. And this scene was among the film’s most trying for Connery given what was happening beneath him. “He wasn’t very comfortable,” Culley says on the commentary track. In an interview with the LA Times earlier this year, production designer Ken Adam said that that was an understatement . “Sean was absolutely terrified.” Sean Connery looking genuinely alarmed Press materials put out before Goldfinger’s release played up the scene and its use of cutting edge technology. The film “is sure to give the laser its greatest international publicity as a scientific development of great power and worth in the modern world,” the release said . It’s a lofty prediction that’s impossible to evaluate 51 years later. Yes, the laser has become an integral part of modern science — but did Goldfinger have anything to do with that?

The scene’s influence on modern pop culture is much easier to measure, though. Just consider all the parodies and homages that have cropped up in the decades since Goldfinger strapped Bond to a table in that unnecessarily large torture chamber. Mike Myers did it , Archer did it . And, as ever, The Simpsons did it best of all: MisMatch 12 - Goldfinger - Do You Remember? Do You Remember? 4352 Goldfinger (1964) A British Technicolor spy film, the third in the James Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character Auric Goldfinger, along with Shirley Eaton as the iconic Bond girl Jill Masterson. Goldfinger was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The film’s plot has Bond investigating gold smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger and eventually uncovering Goldfinger’s plans to contaminate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.

Goldfinger was the first Bond blockbuster, with a budget equal to that of the two preceding films combined. Principal photography took place from January to July 1964 in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the US states of Kentucky and Florida. The release of the film led to a number of promotional licensed tie-in items, including a toy Aston Martin DB5 car from Corgi Toys which became the biggest selling toy of 1964. The promotion also included an image of gold-painted Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson on the cover of Life. Many of the elements introduced in the film appeared in many of the later James Bond films, such as the extensive use of technology and gadgets by Bond and an extensive pre-credits sequence that was not part of the main storyline. Goldfinger was the first Bond film to win an Academy Award and opened to largely favourable critical reception. The film was a financial success, recouping its budget in two weeks and is hailed as the Bond canon’s quintessential episode.

Relive the Action and Watch Goldfinger’s Title Sequence Below 1964 – James Bond – Goldfinger: title sequence Plot After destroying a drug laboratory in Latin America, James Bond—agent 007—travels to Miami Beach where he receives instructions from his superior, M, via CIA agent Felix Leiter to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger, who is staying at the same hotel as Bond. The agent sees Goldfinger cheating at gin rummy and stops him by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson, and blackmailing Goldfinger into losing. Bond and Jill consummate their new relationship; however, Bond is subsequently knocked out by Goldfinger’s Korean manservant Oddjob. When Bond regains consciousness, he finds Jill dead, covered in gold paint, having died from “epidermal suffocation.” In London, Bond learns that his objective is determining how Goldfinger smuggles gold internationally. Bond arranges to meet Goldfinger socially and wins a high-stakes golf game against him with a recovered Nazi gold bar at stake. Bond follows him to Switzerland, where Tilly, Jill Masterson’s sister, makes an unsuccessful attempt at revenge by firing a rifle at Goldfinger.

Bond sneaks into Goldfinger’s plant and discovers that he smuggles the gold by melting it down and incorporating it into the bodywork of his car, which he takes with him whenever he travels. Bond also overhears him talking to a Red Chinese agent named Mr. Ling about “Operation Grand Slam.” Leaving, Bond encounters Tilly as she tries to kill Goldfinger again, but trips an alarm in the process; Oddjob kills Tilly with his hat. Bond is captured and Goldfinger ties Bond to a cutting table underneath an industrial laser, which begins to slice a sheet of gold in half, with Bond lying over it. Bond lies to Goldfinger that MI6 knows about Grand Slam, causing Goldfinger to spare Bond’s life to mislead MI6 into believing that Bond has things in hand. Bond is transported by Goldfinger’s private jet, flown by his personal pilot, Pussy Galore, to his stud farm near Fort Knox, Kentucky. Bond escapes and witnesses Goldfinger’s meeting with US mafiosi, who have brought the materials he needs for Operation Grand Slam. Whilst they are each promised $1 million, Goldfinger tempts them that they “could have the million today, or ten millions tomorrow”.

They listen to Goldfinger’s plan to rob Fort Knox before Goldfinger kills them all using some of the “Delta 9” nerve gas he plans to release over Fort Knox. Bond is recaptured while eavesdropping and tells Goldfinger the reasons why his stated plan to rob the gold repository will not work. Goldfinger hints he does not intend to steal the gold, and Bond deduces that Goldfinger will detonate an atomic device containing cobalt and iodine inside the vault, which would supposedly render the gold useless for 58 years. This will increase the value of Goldfinger’s own gold and give the Chinese an advantage from the potential economic chaos. Should the authorities be alerted, he would simply detonate the bomb in a major city or target. Operation Grand Slam begins with Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus spraying the gas over Fort Knox. However, Bond had “seduced” Galore, convincing her to replace the nerve gas with a harmless substance and alert the US government about Goldfinger’s plan. The military personnel of Fort Knox convincingly play dead until they are certain that they can prevent the criminals from escaping the base with the bomb.

Believing the military forces to be neutralised, Goldfinger’s private army breaks into Fort Knox and accesses the vault itself as he arrives in a helicopter with the atomic device. In the vault, Oddjob handcuffs Bond to the device. The US troops attack; Goldfinger takes off his coat, revealing a US Army colonel’s uniform, and kills Mr. Ling and the troops seeking to open the vault, before making his escape. Bond extricates himself from the handcuffs, but Oddjob attacks him before he can disarm the bomb. They fight and Bond manages to electrocute Oddjob. Bond forces the lock off the bomb, but is unable to disarm it. An atomic specialist who accompanied Leiter turns off the device with the clock stopped on “0:03” (frozen at “0:07” in re-release prints). With Fort Knox safe, Bond is invited to the White House for a meeting with the President. However, Goldfinger has hijacked the plane carrying Bond. In a struggle for Goldfinger’s revolver, the gun discharges, shooting out a window, creating an explosive decompression. Goldfinger is blown out of the cabin through the ruptured window.

With the plane out of control, Bond rescues Galore and they parachute safely from the aircraft before it crashes into the ocean. Credit: Wikipedia SEE IF YOU GOT ALL OF THEM Photo: Web007james.com 1. The Man in the Background is No Longer Wearing a Hat 2. The Woman’s Black Bikini is Now Nude 3. Goldfinger’s Gaze has Changed 4. The Color of the Watch Face has Changed from Blue to Red 5. The Pencil Next to the Note Pad is Gone

Question: In a James Bond film what was Operation Grand Slam intended to rob?
Answer: Fort Knox