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• Revealing mistakes: The reflection that Bond sees in the girl's eye isn't a mirror image like a true reflection would be.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The car goes off the road at the curve with the oil slick by turning sharply the wrong way, rather by than continuing on a tangent as it should.
  
  
• Continuity: The 1964 Lincoln Continental that Oddjob takes to be crushed becomes an engineless 1963 Continental as it is being compacted.
  
  

• Continuity: Whenever we're looking away from the bomb's countdown timer, it fails to advance as fast as it should, even though from time to time we do hear ticking at the same rate that the counter changes. For example, we see it tick from 010 to 009 and then hear 4 more ticks before it is stopped, but it then displays 007 and not 005.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the fight with Oddjob in Fort Knox, Bond picks up a stick-like object off the floor as a weapon. The next shot, showing Bond wave the stick and begin to launch it at Oddjob, clearly uses a stunt double, his hair and physical build being different from that of Connery.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tilly falls after her fatal encounter with Oddjob's hat, she lands on her back. When Bond comes over to kneel over her body, it is face down.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Leiter contacts M on the green scrambler, the south portico of the White House is shown through a window behind him. There are no structures directly south of the White House to the Tidal Basin except for the Washington Monument.
  
  
• Continuity: Goldfinger's crew uses a giant truck-mounted laser to burn their way through the Fort Knox entrance. Several shots of the truck show the laser beam being moved across the entrance extremely rapidly; however, when these shots are intercut with views of the entrance itself, the beam inches across the entrance door very, very slowly.
  
  
• Factual errors: The plane's air pressure gauge drops too far and too fast.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After the Lincoln is crushed, it is gently lowered onto the bed of Oddjob's Ford Ranchero pickup, which would have crushed it. A '64 Lincoln weighs close to 5000 lbs, not counting the the extra weight of the gold that was supposed to be in it (or the body... ), and that year Ranchero had a max load weight of approximately 1000 lbs. A mid-sixties Ranchero was built on the Falcon chassis.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the crushed Lincoln is being lowered into the bed of the '64 Falcon Ranchero, a protective mat is visible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After being knocked out in his hotel suite kitchen in the Fountainbleu hotel in Miami, Florida, Bond returns to the bedroom where he will discover Jill Masterson painted gold. The room is dark; he must turn on the light to see. But since he's on a British sound stage, and not really in Florida, and since Sean Connery is British (very Scottish, in fact), he does what comes naturally: flicks the wall switch down to turn the light on (since most wall switches in the UK work that way).
  
  
• Factual errors: In the Fort Knox vault, the gold is stacked too high to be practical. Given the weight and softness of gold, the lower bars of the stacks would be flattened by the sheer weight of the bars above them.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Auric Goldfinger is talking to Mr. Ling about the process of melting down the gold from the car, his lips never move.
  
  
• Factual errors: At Fort Knox, the sergeant's stripes on Kisch's uniform are the type used by the United States Air Force, not the Army.
  
  
• Factual errors: The helicopter that delivers Pussy Galore, Goldfinger and the "nuclear device" to the depository has the registration N-ASAZ. Aircraft registrations in the USA haven't used the "N-and four letters" system (as used in the UK, for instance, with G in place of N) since 1927.
  
  
• Continuity: After the soldiers are all knocked out by nerve gas, the procession to the gold depository is led by an army jeep. The jeep shown keeps switching back and forth from a WW2 era jeep to a much later 1950s-style jeep. The trucks also change between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Position of Smithers's hand/cigar jumps between shots
  
  
• Continuity: When James Bond foils Goldfinger's scheme to cheat at gin rummy, Jill Masterson changes positions between shots. When we see her from behind, she is lying face down. But when we see her from the front, she is lying on her side/back.
  
  
• Continuity: When Pussy Galore's Flying Circus lands at Blue Grass Field, the blonde girl we see getting out of the first Piper is not among the group of pilots who report to Pussy in the next shot. When the girls are dismissed, there are no planes in the background.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the golf game, Bond is standing to the left and slightly behind Goldfinger. Yet the bar of gold 007 drops lands to Goldfinger's right. When we see Bond in the next shot, he's still in his original position.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: As Bond regains consciousness after being struck by Oddjob, the shadow of the camera and boom moving is visible on the bottom of the cupboards.
  
  
• Continuity: When Oddjob uses his hat to severe the statue's head, the hat is seen to continue flying away from the statue. In the next shot the hat is seen on the ground beside the statue's head.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond walks into Goldfinger's suite to find Jill Masterson laying on her stomach, talking on the short-wave radio. In the reverse shot, she is on her back.
  
  
• Continuity: When the cabin de-pressurizes, one of Goldfinger's soldiers can be seen on the floor. This suggests that at least a portion of this scene was edited out.
  
  
• Continuity: When Felix Leiter and the other agent follow Oddjob and the soon to killed Mobster to the airport, the Ford Thunderbird they are driving has no "fender skirts", or coverings for the rear wheel openings on some luxury cars. After they loose the signal in Bond's transponder, they return to Goldfinger's ranch, and as they pull up by the fence, the T-bird suddenly has fender skirts.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When we see Pussy Galore's private jetliner in the long shots, the strings that are suspending the model plane are visible. This was corrected in the 2006 digital restoration.
  
  
• Continuity: At the Miami resort, when Goldfinger walks towards the card table, on the far left you can see Bond and Leiter standing watching Goldfinger in the background. In a close up shot of Bond and Leiter we see Bond reaching for a towel and putting it on his shoulder, but then in the wide shots there is no towel over his shoulder and he never moves.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is tracking Goldfinger's car in Switzerland, the map on his dashboard show's Goldfinger's blip moving north from Geneva along a lakeside road, yet the shots of the cars indicate a high mountain pass.
  
  
• Continuity: Bond drops a bottle of wine onto the floor after being hit by Oddjob and he falls and lands almost on top of the bottle, but in the next shot it's a few feet away to his left side.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Goldfinger joins his opponent at the card table in Miami, the cards are blue, but when Goldfinger sits down and they begin the game, the cards are red. (There is another deck of cards on the table, also red, but they remain untouched throughout the scene.)
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is listening beneath the model of Fort Knox, just after he is caught by Pussy Galore, his vest has one button undone. But is the next shot, still standing in the same place, the button is done up.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Felix and his partner are following Odd Job to the airport, thinking they are tracking Bond, they are supposed to be in Kentucky but palm trees are visible in the background en-route.
  
  
• Continuity: In the intro scene, while Bond deposits the explosive along the drums labeled 'Nitro' you can see that his hands are all grimy. After he climbs back over the wall shortly after and takes off the overalls his hands are clean.
  
  
• Continuity: The bomb is disarmed with 007 seconds left on the placed timer with big white numbers. Then, Bond says "Three more ticks and Mr. Goldfinger would've hit the jackpot." Originally, the timer would've stopped at 003, and the line would make sense, but later it was decided to stop it at 007 instead for a good old Bond joke, and apparently never forgot to delete that line in editing.
  
  
• Continuity: When the industrial laser is moving into position while Bond is on the table, the blue lights on it dim and brighten in the close-up while turning completely on and off in the wide shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the "Flying Circus" planes land and taxi to a stop, one can clearly see that the pilot of the nearest plane, who is looking at the camera making sure not to hit it with the wing, is a burly man wearing a blonde wig. It is basically a yellow hat with pigtails.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Goldfinger is at the airport, we see a jet taxiing in the background but hear a piston-engined aircraft.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The wires used to direct the plane Bond is travelling on to meet the US President are visible several times.
  
  
• Continuity: In the car chase between Bond and Tilly Masterson, Bond opens the control console hidden beneath the arm rest, you can see that the entire sleeve is black but in the earlier and the following scene Bond's wearing a brown jacket and a white shirt.
  
  
• Continuity: Goldfinger's Lockheed Jetstar has "Auric Enterprises" written on the nose in the airport shots, but it's not on the model in the flight shots. (Lockheed had the company names put on the Jetstars during production to remind the workers of the importance of their clients.)
  
  
• Continuity: At the Florida hotel Bond is giving Goldfinger orders over the radio system. We see two close-ups of Goldfiger holding the cards and a gold ring is clearly visible on his little finger, left hand. The next two shots of Goldfinger are face on and the ring has moved to the fourth finger, left hand.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami is a crescent shaped building; the guest room hallways are therefore curved, not straight as seen when Bond first approaches Goldfinger's room.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the Lincoln Continental supposedly containing Martin Solo's body is being crushed, we can clearly see that the back seat (where Solo was sitting when he was shot) is empty.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the last scene with Bond kissing Pussy Galore on the parachute you can see the tan line from Sean Connery's wedding ring.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond enters Goldfinger's hotel room in Miami we see that the transmitter is on the table next to Jill. Bond turns it off but when Jill turns around and says, "Who are you?" we see that Bond is too far away from the table to have just turned off the transmitter.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond is knocked out by Oddjob at the hotel, the contents of the fridge are totally different when he regains consciousness.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Right at the end of the car chase between Bond and Tilly Masterson they have descended to the valley but there is a shot inside Tilly's car which still has snow outside the window.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Bond drops Tilly off at the service station she says "Fraulein". The location however, is in Suisse Romande which is French speaking.
  
  
• Continuity: After the golf duel Goldfinger takes a seat in his car to write a check. After this, Oddjob is crushing a golf ball with his bare hands and then drives away. When the passenger seat is shown, Goldfinger is not in the car.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bond first sees golden Jill on the bed she is lying diagonally across the bed with her right foot on the bed and pointed like a ballerina on points. As Bond approaches the bed her right foot is pointing towards the camera. The last shot of Jill's legs show both her feet hanging over the end of the bed meaning that she has changed position and is now lying straight along the bed.
  
  
• Continuity: In the cantina in the pre-credits sequence, Bonita can be seen reflected in the mirror, and a man is lighting a cigarette for her. In the next shot, she storms out of the cantina with no cigarette, and the man has suddenly disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: When Oddjob takes the car to be crushed at the junkyard, it is clearly visible that the gangster's body isn't lying on the backseat any more, nor anywhere else in the vehicle.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The U.S. Army Brigadier General is addressed as "Brigadier"; U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps officers of this rank are addressed as "General", since in the U.S. military it is a General officer's rank. "Brigadier" is strictly a British or Commonwealth form of address. It's understandable that Bond might make this mistake, but Leiter, an American, should know better.
  
  
• Continuity: When Goldfinger's vehicles are on the road approaching the Fort Knox Depository, you can clearly see an army truck laying on its side with men around it. Later when the men are "waking up" the truck is upright.
  
  
• Continuity: Goldfinger's minions are shown parked in several U.S.-Army-disguised trucks ready to invade Fort Knox. One of these is clearly a 1958 or 1959 Chevrolet Viking. As the trucks move out, the 1958-1959 Chevrolet Viking truck completely disappears, although the same number of trucks are still shown.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): During the Rock-a-bye-baby sequence at the beginning of Operation Grand slam as the planes administer the Delta-9 nerve gas, the main pilot of the Flying Circus counts down Five through zero before saying "The Baby is asleep....." However she misses out the number one, although counts at a steady pace, we hear her say "5, 4, 3, 2, Zero".
  
  
• Factual errors: We see Bond and Pussy in the cockpit fighting to pull their jet out of a dive. At such an angle and speed it would not be possible to get out of your seat, find parachutes, put them on, open an aircraft door and jump for safety.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bond drives his Aston Martin out of a Swiss village, his car has Pirelli CXs XY tires. When he arrives at the gas station shortly after that, it has 402 Dunlop tires.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Pussy Galore's Flying Circus takes off for its lethal run towards Fort Knox, one of the pilots says, "Speed: two-two-oh. Wind check: westerly." Flying speeds are usually given in knots, and the top speed of a Piper Cherokee 180 (the type of plane used by the Circus) is approximately 130 knots, not 220. It's unlikely that the pilots would use KPH (130 knots is roughly 240KPH). Since the Flying Circus is a display team, it's possible that modified engines may have been fitted to the planes, but there is nothing in the film to suggest this.
  
  
• Continuity: When Oddjob cuts the statue's head off at the country club, a close-up of the underside of the hat reveals a sturdy-looking metal ring lining the brim of the hat, making it into a formidable weapon. Later on in Fort Knox, however, when James Bond retrieves the hat from between the bars and throws it at Oddjob, several shots of the underside of the hat reveal no silver ring.
  
  
• Plot holes: In the auto chase seen at night with Bond and the lady, Bond puts down an oil slick and the car chasing them slides off the road towards a cliff. The car burst out in flames for no reason at the top of the cliff.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Goldfinger confronts Bond in the plane near the end of film, a crew member is briefly seen when Goldfinger initially steps from behind the curtain.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Goldfinger confronts Bond in the plane near the end of film, a crew member is briefly seen when Goldfinger initially steps from behind the curtain. You can then see the curtain is open behind Goldfinger, but moments later it is closed. About 30 seconds later, when Goldfinger says he will take care of Pussy, you can see that same film crew member again, his left arm is sticking out from behind the curtain.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious back-projection in various scenes, for example, behind Goldfinger while playing Gin Rummy.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the opening scene, just after Bond shoots off a grappling hook, its clearly not his. It comes off-camera, from the bottom of the screen.
  
  
• Continuity: When James has just been passed by the Mustang on the mountain road, then he stops and looks at Goldfinger and Oddjob buying fruit from the children far below on the lower part of the winding mountain road, Goldfinger takes a bite of his fruit as he is walking our right to left. When Goldfinger is shown in the next shot, viewed from up above, where James is, he is still standing and looking/talking to the kids, not having walked away, or, it would seem, having taken a bite of his fruit.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In shots of the interior of the Aston Martin (looking toward James, on the day of the mountain road "chase") the screw holes where the sun visor used to be attached inside the Aston are plainly visible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the crusher picks up the 1964 Lincoln Continental, as it lifts the car, the weight of the engine causes the car to tilt forward, however, with so much gold in the trunk, you would expect the car to stay level or tilt backward.
  
  
• Factual errors: The Ft. Knox gold depository has restricted air space above it to both civilian and military aircraft. Ft. Knox is also home to Godman AFB. Had Pussy Galore's Flying Circus even hinted they were heading toward the gold depository they would have been intercepted by USAF fighter aircraft.
  
  
• Continuity: After the car crash Bond wakes up on the laser table with a round gash on his left cheek. In the next scene he wakes up on the jet and the gash is gone.
  
  
• Factual errors: At the airport when Goldfinger's Rolls is being loaded onto the cargo plane, Bond reaches into his car and turns on the radar unit. The bleeps shows the Rolls and the plane are taking off from the south end of the runway when they haven't even started the engines yet.
  
  
• Continuity: While following Goldfinger in Switzerland, Bond's interior and exterior scenery does not match. This continuity problem continues when he pursues Till down the mountain.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While Bond is giving Tilly a lift to the garage, he looks in his rear view mirror at the initials on her case. He sees "T.M." His view should be ".M.T"
  
  
• Continuity: After Bond ejects Goldfinger's henchman at the factory, subsequent shots of the Aston Martin show the roof sections intact.
  
  
• Continuity: After Odd Job knocks the head from the statue at the clubhouse, the head changes to a bright white color and no longer matches the original color of the marble.
  
  
• Continuity: In the JetStar, when Bond wakes up. Lighter on the table changes place from Bond's side of the table next to ashtray, when the rear of the plane is visible, to Pussy Galore's side of the table when the front of the plane is visible.
  
  
• Continuity: When Oddjob leaves the Continental at the salvage yard there is no front windshield when the claw comes down to pick it up. When the claw drops the car in the crusher bin the windshield has reappeared.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bond switches the intercom off Goldfinger discards the wrong card immediately before the opponents next draw. He should already have the correct information up to this point.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Q describes the DB5 as having bullet proof windows front and side, as are the rear windows - yet it only has one rear window.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: From the angle of the club face and the actual path of the ball after it is hit Goldfinger is already missing the putt before Bond drop the gold bar.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Speaking to Jilly Masterson, Bond claims that the champagne should be drunk at 38 Fahrenheit, this is 3.3 Centigrade and barely above freezing. Most wine experts recommend 7 to 9 Celsius which is 43 to 48 Fahrenheit.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The interior scenes in Pussy Galore's JetStar are filmed in a sound stage far too large to be the interior this particular aircraft. The JetStar interior barely fits two small seats side-by-side with a tiny isle in between. Additionally, Bond would not be able to stand up-right in the cabin of a JetStar.
  
  
• Continuity: When James has just been passed by the Mustang on the mountain road, and then he stops and looks at Goldfinger and Oddjob buying fruit from the children. As Bond stops and exits the car he is quite a distance from Goldfinger and there are 5 unbroken stone bollards visible. In the next shot Bond and the Aston Martin have suddenly moved much further down the mountain and the Bollards are different, some are closer together and the one nearest Bond is broken.
  
  
• Factual errors: Pusy Galore says over microphone from cockpit, "we will be landing in Baltimore, port of entry: the United States." She should have said: "We will be landing in the United States, port of entry: Baltimore."
  
  
• Continuity: When Odd Job separates the head from the statue the falling head hits the statues left arm, a break away is clearly seen, the arm bounces, yet does not break away as intended.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Goldfinger's been beaten at Gin Rummy and snaps a pencil in anger, we hear this while we're seeing through Jill's binoculars. We wouldn't be able to hear something like that from Jill's vantage point, several floors up from the pool area.
  
  
• Continuity: When the laser is about to come into contact with Bond, he still has time to get out a few sentences to Goldfinger. In that amount of time, the laser would have begun to cut into Bond by now.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Felix Leiter's Washington office window has a view of the south face of the White House, which would put it slightly off-center in the Ellipse, which has no buildings aside from a small visitor center, and about where the National Christmas Tree is located.
  
  
• Factual errors: Pussy Galore's aircraft depart to Fort Knox. Lead aircraft reports "Speed 2-2-0,wind check, westerly". Piper Cherokees have never been capable of any speed 220 mph, 220 kts or 220 kph. in level flight. 130 mph is typical cruise speed.
  
  
• Factual errors: Piper Cherokees are flown solo by the pilot from the left seat despite the door being on the right side of the fuselage.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the golf game, Goldfinger's shot that is described as landing in the rough can be seen immediately after being hit by the club bouncing on the grass no more than a dozen feet from the tee.
  
  
• Continuity: After the game of golf, Goldfinger sits in the back seat of his car and makes out a cheque to Bond. Once he receives the cheque, Bond gives the golf ball to Oddjob (who is in the driver's seat). Oddjob crushes the ball and drives away, but Goldfinger is no longer in the car.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Oddjob first throws his hat at Bond inside Fortknox it lands at an angle where the floor is made of tubing. When he runs after Bond and picks up the hat it is now the right way up on solid flooring to the left.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: Right after Goldfinger appears in the plane at the end of the film, a quick cut reveals several military personnel (the pilots?) bound and gagged on the floor inside a hanger - they are all awake and struggling to get free. Moments later, the scene cuts back to them as they are discovered by several men- only now, they are lying perfectly still - apparently unconscious - on the floor.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: As the bomb ticks down in Fort knox, the CIA and and a bomb expert race in through heavy enemy resistance to assist James Bond, who is trying to defuse it. By the time the bomb expert reaches the very top level of the complex - even before he starts down the numerous staircases that separate him and the bomb, a quick shot of the bomb timer display shows 18 seconds to go. After running down many flights of stairs, he reaches the bomb, pushes Bond's hands out of the way, and turns the bomb off. The display reads "007"- or seven seconds to go. In real time, it has taken him much longer than 11 seconds to run from the top level of the complex to the bomb's location.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): SPOILER: Twice during the movie - when cutting the head off the statue and killing Tilly Masterson - Oddjob has shown deadly precision and accuracy in throwing his hat. When he throws his hat at James Bond in Fort Knox, however (in the scene where the electrical cable is conveniently severed) he throws it (upward) at least 20 feet over Bond's head- not even close! Why the sudden loss of aim if not to cut that cable to Bond's advantage?
  
  
• Plot holes: SPOILER: When Goldfinger is revealing his plans to raid Fort Knox, the crime bosses do not know what he is talking about, despite the fact that each of them has already provided their part of the arrangements. Furthermore, the raid goes ahead as planned even after he kills all of the crime bosses.
  
  

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