James Bond, Goldfinger. Declassification of the 3rd James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• night snorkels into heroin trafficker's headquarters, rigs it with time-delayed plastic explosives and lights up a cigarette in a nightclub nearby when it blows

Title Song/Credits

• "Goldfinger" by Shirley Bassey
• scenes from movie projected on bikini-clad woman's gold-painted skin

Villains

• Auric Goldfinger, gold bullion smuggling tycoon set on penetrating and nuking Fort Knox to ruin the Western economy and increase the value of his gold 10-times (Gert Frobe)
• Oddjob, decapitating hat-throwing heavy (Harold Sakata)

Girls

• Pussy Galore, Goldfinger's personal pilot (Honor Blackman)
• Jill Masterson, Goldfinger's second pair of eyes who gets asphyxiated with gold paint (Shirley Eaton)
• Tilly Masterson, Jill's sister (Tania Mallet)
• Bonita, flamenco dancer (Nadja Regin)
• Dink, poolside masseuse (Margaret Nolan)

Gadgets

• Aston Martin DB5, car with rotating license plate, tracking screen, smoke screen, ejector seat, wheel scythe, oil slick, bullet-proof shield and machine guns
• magnetic and shoe-heel homing devices
• metal-cutting industrial laser
• pool table that converts into debriefing room control center
• scale diorama replica of Fort Knox that rises out of floor
• debriefing room and plane fleet rigged with smuggled canisters of Delta-9 invisible nerve gas

Chases

• car chased by car at night through tight alleys of Auric Enterprises, ending in a game of chicken that Bond loses due to a mirror that creates the illusion of headlights closer than they really are
• cat and mouse with Tilly Masterson's Mustang convertible on winding mountain roads in Andermatt, Switzerland
• night car chase from Auric Enterprises compound

Binds

• about to be clubbed from behind by hitman, sees reflection in Bonita's eye and spins her around to take the blow
• about to be shot by hitman in tub, knocks fan into tub and electrocutes him
• at gunpoint in car, activates passenger ejector seat and launches guard from car
• strapped to table with metal-cutting industrial laser approaching his groin, bluffs that he knows details about Operation Grandslam to convince Goldfinger he is worth more to him alive than dead
• locked in a cell at Goldfinger's stables, drops out of guard's sight to get guard to unlock cell and investigate, then suspends himself above door to drop on guard when he enters. Escapes, locking guard in cell
• unable to leave Goldfinger's stables, drops paper note containing details of Goldfinger's plot and shoe-heel homing device in Solo's jacket pocket as he is being escorted off the premises by Oddjob, but Oddjob kills Solo and presses him and the car in a junkyard car compactor, destroying the message and homing device
• handcuffed to nuclear bomb inside Fort Knox, gets key off of dead guard and unlocks handcuffs
• dodging Oddjob's hat, hat cuts electrical wire; throws hat back at Oddjob, but misses and hat embeds between steel bars; touches live wire to steel bars as Oddjob goes to grab hat, electrocuting Oddjob
• with nuclear bomb counting down, breaks lock on bomb using gold bullion and deactivates bomb with 007 seconds left
• at Goldfinger's gunpoint on jet, deflects arm when Goldfinger looks away momentarily
• fighting with Goldfinder, Goldfinger's gun fires through window and depressurizes cabin, sucking Goldfinger through window to his death and putting jet into nosedive; parachutes with Pussy to safety

One-liners

• "Shocking, positively shocking," after electrocuting hitman in tub
• "I must be dreaming," after coming to and seeing a beautiful woman, asking "Who are you?" and being told "My name is Pussy Galore"
• "Manners, Oddjob. I thought you always took your hat off to a lady," with Pussy after seeing him for the first time after he killed Tilly with his hat
• "Where do you hide your gold knuckles in this outfit," after Pussy uncharacteristically changes from all-business to flirtatious
• "Oh, he blew a fuse," describing to Felix what happened to Oddjob
• "I must have appealed to her maternal instinct," explaining to Felix what must have made Pussy call Washington and give up Goldfinger's plot
• "Playing his golden harp," when asked by Pussy where Goldfinger is

Locations

• Switzerland
• Fort Knox, United States

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