Wikipedia plot:
MI6 Agent James Bond destroys a drug laboratory and electrocutes an unnamed antagonist in the bath in Latin America. Bond then heads to Miami Beach, where his superior M via CIA agent Felix Leiter directs Bond to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger at the hotel in Miami Beach. Bond discovers Goldfinger cheating at a high-stakes gin rummy game, aided remotely by his employee Jill Masterson. Bond interrupts Jill and blackmails Goldfinger into losing. After an evening with Jill, Bond is knocked out by Goldfinger’s Korean manservant Oddjob. Bond awakens to find Jill covered in gold paint, dead from “skin suffocation.”
In London, M tasks Bond with determining how Goldfinger smuggles gold internationally. Q supplies Bond with a modified Aston Martin DB5 and two tracking devices. Bond plays a round of golf with Goldfinger at his country club in Kent, wagering a bar of recovered Nazi gold supplied to him by the Bank of England. Goldfinger attempts to cheat, but Bond tricks him into losing the match. Goldfinger warns Bond against interfering in his affairs, and Oddjob demonstrates his formidable strength, along with a steel-rimmed hat, making it deadly when thrown. Bond trails Goldfinger to Switzerland and meets Jill’s sister Tilly, who tries to assassinate Goldfinger but is prevented by Bond.
Bond sneaks into Goldfinger’s refinery in Switzerland and overhears him telling a Chinese nuclear physicist, Ling that he incorporates gold into the bodywork of his Rolls-Royce Phantom III to smuggle out of England. Bond overhears Goldfinger mention “Operation Grand Slam” and encounters Tilly, who again tries to kill Goldfinger. An alarm is tripped, and Oddjob kills Tilly with his steel-rimmed hat. Bond is captured and strapped to a table with an overhead industrial laser, the beam advancing toward his crotch. Bond lies to Goldfinger that MI6 knows about Operation Grand Slam and Goldfinger spares his life. Pussy Galore, a pilot, flies the captive Bond to Goldfinger’s stud farm near Lexington, Kentucky in a private jet.
Once there, Bond escapes his cell and witnesses Goldfinger’s meeting with American mafiosi, who have supplied materials needed for Operation Grand Slam. Goldfinger reveals the plan is to breach the US Bullion Depository at Fort Knox by releasing Delta-9 nerve gas into the atmosphere, which Goldfinger claims induces unconsciousness for 24 hours. Goldfinger promises to multiply the mobsters’ payoff if the scheme succeeds, but they ridicule his plan, particularly Mr. Solo, who demands to be paid immediately and leaves before the others are fatally gassed. Bond is captured by Pussy Galore, but attempts to alert the CIA by planting his homing device in Solo’s pocket as he leaves.
Solo is killed by Oddjob and his body destroyed in a car crusher, along with the homing device. Bond confronts Goldfinger over the implausibility of moving the gold. Goldfinger agrees. Bond deduces from Ling’s presence that the Chinese government provided a dirty bomb to irradiate the gold, making it worthless. Goldfinger’s own gold will greatly increase in value and the Chinese will gain from the resulting economic meltdown. Operation Grand Slam begins with Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus spraying gas over Fort Knox, seemingly knocking out the military guards.
Goldfinger’s private army breaks into Fort Knox and accesses the vault as Goldfinger arrives in a helicopter with the bomb. In the vault, Goldfinger’s henchman Kisch handcuffs Bond to the bomb. Unknown to Goldfinger, Bond convinced Pussy to alert the authorities and replaced the gas with a harmless substance. Goldfinger locks the vault with Bond, Oddjob and Kisch inside. When the US Army attacks, Goldfinger kills Ling and escapes. Oddjob tosses Kisch off a gangway after he tried to escape the vault. Bond frees himself with Kisch’s key, but Oddjob batters him. Bond electrocutes Oddjob and forces the lock off the bomb, but is unsure how to disarm it.
After killing Goldfinger’s men, US troops open the vault and a specialist turns off the device with “007” seconds remaining. Bond boards a jet to have lunch with the President at the White House, but Goldfinger hijacked the plane, tying up the plane’s crew in the hangar and putting Pussy in the cockpit. In a struggle for Goldfinger’s revolver, the gun fires, shattering a window and creating an explosive decompression; Goldfinger is blown out the ruptured window. Bond and Pussy parachute from the crashing plane. Leiter’s search helicopter passes over the unseen pair. Pussy tries to make their presence known, but Bond declares, “This is no time to be rescued”, and draws the parachute over them.
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- Different goons this time.
- Henchmen and full on villains
- The best of the early theme songs.
- Good use of time