Another Bond cliffhanger (or in this case, cobalt bomb-hanger), with agent 007 taking on Auric Goldfinger, a master criminal who plans to plunder the American gold reserves in Fort Knox. Screenwriters Paul Dehn and Richard Maibaum miss out on none of the thrills of Ian Fleming's book. At the same time they endow Bond with a sense of humour that Fleming never gave him. Sean Connery revels in this, enjoying himself much more as a sort of super-Saint than in the parts that are pure Pearl White. German actor Gert Frobe burst into international film recognition with the title role, while wrestler Harold Sakata enjoys fleeting screen fame by making the Korean Odd-Job a villain fraught with menace. Another star is the Bond-mobile, in this case a 'modified' Aston Martin which has a radar screen and an oil slick, and fires machine guns to boot.

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