Goldfinger was the third movie in the James Bond franchise and the first in which all elements of the Bond blueprint would be established, and perhaps the last in which those familiar elements were charmingly fresh and not yet grotesquely exaggerated.
There’s an action packed cold open, the gun-barrel animation, a pop song theme, a sexy title sequence, Moneypenny, M, Q, an Aston Martin, and a colourful villain with a hair-brained scheme.
It was a box office sensation – the fastest grossing movie in history at the time. It was so successful, it convinced the Bond producers to double down on this formula with ever more unlikely gadgets, high-concept stunts and campy hijinks.
Goldfinger burst onto screens in an era where spy films were suspenseful, noir-ish affairs, not the bombastic…
