The movie that kicked the James Bond franchise into the stratosphere and it's easy to see why. It successfully melded the action, the sly off handed humor and sexual innuendo that were to become hallmarks of the series. The outlandish, illogical plot can be forgiven though the film often makes no narrative sense. For example, the sequence where Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) attempts to get the American gangsters to join his outrageous plot to rob fort Knox. When they (except for one) agree to the plan, he gasses them all. If that was his intention, why why didn't he just gas them, why go through the whole description of the Fort Knox robbery (unless it was just exposition for the audience's sake). Honor Blackman as the infamous Pussy Galore makes one of the all time great Bond girls. Then, there's the fantastic John Barry score highlighted by the thrilling Shirley Bassey vocal on the title song. With Sean Connery as Bond, of course. Also with Shirley Eaton (literally the golden girl), Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Burt Kwouk, Tania Mallet, Martin Benson, Desmond Llewelyn and Harold Sakata as the memorable, bowler hat flinging Oddjob.
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