"What's Your Game, Mr. Bond?"
The iconic movie Goldfinger stands up as an all-round fan favorite James Bond film.
Many Bond cliches have their roots in this third installment of the 007 franchise.
Even the mute henchman Oddjob regularly appears on lists of best all-time Bond villains.
Golden Girl
The film's "Cover Girl" Jill Masterson (portrayed by actress Shirley Eaton) was a tragic character who met her fate being asphyxiated in gold paint.
Lore often misstates that the character was completely nude - Some art depicts her as such.
It's also been said that she wore a thong (technically I'd consider it to be a tanga).
[JAMES
BOND 007 MOVIE FILE]
| GOLDFINGER
[film] |
1964 [Bond
#3]  BACKGROUND
"Sean
Connery returns as Agent 007 and faces off with a maniacal villain bent on destroying
all the gold in Fort Knox - and obliterating the world economy! Goldfinger is
'the best... of all the Bonds' - Roger Ebert"
-Goldfinger
2008 DVD
"...A fully-armed Aston Martin DB-5,
a nude woman painted from head to toe in gold paint, the mute Korean manservant
-- Oddjob -- with his steel-rimmed bowler, Bond's near-emasculation by a laser
beam atop a gold table...
This third adventure brought cinema's James
Bond to a new level of popularity. 'Bond is Back' touted all the ads,
and indeed he was...
Shirley Bassey's powerful rendition of Goldfinger
not only added a rich shimmer to this third James Bond movie, it created the first
American hit song out of a Bond title theme."
-The
Best of Bond... James Bond Movie Soundtrack
"The
classic title song was performed by Shirley Bassey , whose powerful vocals helped
propel [the] soundtrack album to number eight on Billboard... The song makes a
subtle reappearance in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1971) when a janitor whistles
the tune...Goldfinger" theme sung by Shirley Bassey"
-James
Bond Special Edition DVD
"Ian
Flemming died shortly before the film's release, never knowing how popular the
films based on his novels were eventually to become"
-The
Official James Bond 007 Movie Book
by Sally
Hibbin
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CAST
| James
Bond | SEAN
CONNERY | | Auric
Goldfinger | GERT
FROBE | | Pussy
Galore | HONOR
BLACKBMAN | | Jill
Masterson | SHIRLEY
EATON | | Tilly
Masterson | TANIA
MALLETT | | Oddjob |
HAROLD
SAKATA | | "M" |
BERNARD
LEE | | Solo |
MARTIN
BENSON | | Felix
Leiter | CEC
LINDER | | Miss
Moneypenny | LOIS
MAXWELL |
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| GOLDFINGER
[villain] |
BACKGROUND
 "Obsessed
to the point of madness with gold... in love with its color and brilliance all
his life...
He has amassed his wealth through a crafty method of smuggling...
Goldfinger
has elaborately planned 007's death by means of a laser beam slowly cutting its
way between the legs of Bond, who asks Goldfinger if he expects him to talk...
The
incorrigible villain replies, 'No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die'."
-The
Official James Bond 007 Movie Book
by Sally
Hibbin
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| ODDJOB
[villain] |
BACKGROUND
 "A
diminutive villain sporting a bowler hat. He's small and deadly."
-GoldenEye
007 Instruction Booklet
We're
led to believe that Oddjob is from Korea...
"...Actor Harold Sakata
was a Hawaiian wrestler billed as 'The Great Togo' before he worked on Goldfinger...
Won
a silver medal for the USA weightlifting in the 1948 Olympics...
Knowledge
of judo and karate...
Renowned for his coldly unexpressive countenance
- a feature which obviously stood him in good stead for the equally unresponsive
Oddjob."
-The Official James Bond 007 Movie
Book
by Sally Hibbin
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| MASTERSON,
JILL |
BACKGROUND
 "Jill
Masterson finds a novel way of playing Goldfinger's game - using binoculars and
a miniature radio to spy on the opposition card hand."
"He
pays me... And to be seen with him - Just seen."
"The
film's most indelible image is undoubtedly Jill Masterson's gold-painted corpse,
which required actress Shirley Eaton to undergo two hours of make-up... a patch
of skin over her stomach was left uncovered to prevent the epiderman asphyxiation
that her character suffered"
-James Bond
Special Edition DVD (circa 2000)
"Shirley
wasn't completely naked during the gold paint scenes, she wore a thong and just
to be safe the makeup artist, Paul Rabiger left a small patch of skin about 6-inches
long on her abdomen as a safety precaution and the studio even had doctors on
standby for Miss Eaton's safety."
-https://morleymakeupartistry.weebly.com/
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| GALORE,
PUSSY |
BACKGROUND
GoldenEye
007 Controller Setting 2.3 Galore is of course named after one
of the most memorable Bond Girls.
 "The
unforgettably named Pussy Galore is played by Honor Blackman... Ms. Galore
is first and foremost an ace pilot, indeed Goldfinger's personal one, who is training
a squad of female aviatrix to spray a deadly nerve gas around the fort Knox area..."
-The
Official James Bond 007 Movie Book
by Sally
Hibbin
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