Dec. 22, 1964 - Opening today is “Goldfinger,” the third film installment of the James Bond series starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent Bond. It is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, and Shirley Eaton.
“Goldfinger” is the first Bond film directed by Guy Hamilton. Terence Young, who directed the previous two films, chose to film “The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders” instead after a pay dispute that saw him denied a percentage of the film’s profits.
The film’s plot has Bond investigating gold smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger and eventually uncovering Goldfinger’s plan to contaminate the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
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