A British spy adventure; A story about a British secret service agent assigned to investigate a notorious German gold smuggler with ambitions much greater than first suspected. The third big-screen outing for Ian Fleming's suave superspy and the first with a big budget. It produced a formula that would help bring box office success to successive films and define the fantasy spy film genre for two generations. It has brilliant set design, sophistication, amusing dialogue, a fast pace, interesting props and machinery, a Grammy Award-winning film score, and Academy Award-winning sound effects. Sean Connery plays the gentleman spy with commanding air, wit, charm, panache, and good humour. Gert Frobe is perfectly cast as the titular villain, wearing criminal success proudly. It is a farrago of stunts, voluptuous and kittenish females, gimmicks and gadgets, and violence. It is also absurd and preposterous at times, mainly down to its hokum story-an approaching spoof without quite arriving, thanks to a dose of self-mockery.
Review of Goldfinger
