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  Auric Goldfinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character in the James Bond film and novel Goldfinger.
The voice of Goldfinger was dubbed because of Gert Fröbe's inability to speak English.
In the novel, Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in England and the treasurer of SMERSH, Bond's nemesis.
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 Goldfinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bond later learns that Goldfinger's intention is not to steal the gold, a completely unfeasible goal, but to devalue it by detonating an atomic bomb within the depository and contaminating the United States's gold reserve thus making all that gold unusable, thereby increasing the value of his own gold.
Goldfinger is holding a meeting with the heads of several U.S. mob families (a memorable scene includes a mobster's body inside a car reduced to a metal cube by a giant automobile wrecking compactor).
Goldfinger and his army, believing the soldiers are dead, blow the main gate and use the laser to break into the vault building, where Goldfinger has Bond handcuffed to the bomb.
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 Oddjob - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oddjob is a henchman to the villain Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film and novel, Goldfinger.
He is extremely strong, demonstrating his strength in a number of scenes, including one where he crushes a golf ball with his bare hand and was later struck with a thrown gold brick in the chest and barely flinched.
Oddjob, so named by Goldfinger, is Korean-born, and, much like in the film, he is extremely strong, proven in one sequence where he breaks the railing of a staircase with his hand and the mantle of a fireplace with his foot.
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 MI6 :: The Home Of James Bond 007
Goldfinger was an obsessive megalomaniac, his main lust was for gold and he would do anything to increase his stocks.
Goldfinger is a classic case of a crazed criminal, he appeared to be quite friendly from a distance often laughing and smiling, however this was all selfish applause for himself.
Goldfinger's plan was to use the deadly Delta-9 nerve gas to kill Fort Knox army personal and raid the gold stockpiles, setting a small atomic bomb supplied by Red China on timer, the explosion would render the gold radioactive for 58 years.
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 Goldfinger
Goldfinger's henchman is Oddjob (Harold Sakata), who is mute (though he can grunt orders) and has a deadly bowler hat that can be thrown like a Frisbee and cut objects in half.
Goldfinger is a great Bond film not only because of its terrific performances and neat plot, but also because of its exciting action scenes and individual scenes that stand out.
Goldfinger's presentation of his plan to attack Fort Knox is played out with darkening lights, a huge screen with photos taken from the air, a pool table which flips around to turn into a control console and finally the floor opening up to reveal a scale model of Fort Knox.
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 DVD Review - Goldfinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) is a millionaire and gold magnate who has caught the secret service’s attention.
Finally, Goldfinger is involving hard-edged criminals and his own army to put Operation Grand Slam into practice, and it is up to Bond to rid the world of this madman and stop the crime of the century.
But even apart from the car, "Goldfinger" is a treasure of ideas and creates some great scenarios where 007 has to use his wits and his muscles to get his way out of it.
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 Auric Goldfinger -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ian Fleming chose the name to commemorate the architect Erno Goldfinger who had built his home in Hampstead next door to Fleming; Fleming disliked Goldfinger's style of architecture and destruction of victorian terraces and decided to name a memorable villain after him.
The voice of Goldfinger was dubbed due to Gert Fröbe's heavy German accent.
The architect Erno Goldfinger was not pleased to find the character sharing his name and contacted his lawyers; he eventually settled for, among other things, the promise that the character's first name Auric would always be used.
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 Auric Goldfinger: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character fictional character quick summary:
Goldfinger is the seventh novel by ian fleming, featuring james bond, secret agent 007, published in 1959....
The voice of Goldfinger had to be done by someone else because of Gert Fröbe's heavy German accent.
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 Villains - Main Frame
Although Goldfinger appears to be a polite, respected man he is in fact a murderer and a crook.
Auric Goldfinger was played by Gert Frobe, a German who could speak no English.
The Chineseman is finally double-crossed by Goldfinger and is killed by the mastermind inside Fort Knox during the operation.
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 How Goldfinger nearly became Goldprick - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
Goldfinger was a man who thought big, a champion of communism, an eccentric, a bully who put people in fear.
The story of the Erno Goldfinger's vehement reaction when the author Ian Fleming appropriated his name - and aspects of his character - with deliberate savagery for the villain and title of the James Bond novel was disclosed to the Guardian Hay festival yesterday.
Erno Goldfinger was one of the 20th century's prime advocates of London tower blocks.
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 GOLDFINGER
Goldfinger doesn't take to kindly to being screwed with and warns Bond that he's not afraid of him by killing the girl, painting her whole body with toxic gold paint.
GOLDFINGER may not have the coolest gadgets, but it is one of the more sexy and intelligent scripts I've come across in this series.
Auric Goldfinger could have all the money in the world, but if you had to choose between him and Bond, the answer is clear.
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 Goldfinger
Later Bond crashes in the walls of Goldfinger Inc. and is led to the famous torture sequence with a laser cutting through the table with Bond bound on it.
Later Bond comes to know that Auric Goldfinger has initiated "Operation Grand Slam," a fiendish scheme to raid Fort Knox, and to blow up the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox to increase the value of his own gold supply and in turn obliterate the world economy.(Same old mandatory World domination theme).
Pussy helps Bond to foil Goldfinger's plan to break into Fort Knox by replacing the canisters of deadly gas she was supposed to spray around Fort Knox with a harmless substitute and by calling up the CIA and warning them of the impending doom.
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 James Bond - Official UGO Hub
Goldfinger is wise and keeps the weapon on the move in order to help protect against theft.
Goldfinger has finally had enough of Dr No's shenanigans and has opted to send you to carry out the assassination of Dr No. A Triad informer is due to leave a sniper rifle at a skyscraper for the task but underhandedly switches sides.
Goldfinger has decided that he cannot simply sit back and defend, he must take the fight to the enemy if he is to gain any real security for the omen.
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 Goldfinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
James Bond (Sean Connery) is on leave at an exclusive beach resort when he is told to begin pursuit of Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe), a world-renowned collector of gold.
After letting Goldfinger know, in no uncertain terms, that there is a new player in town, Bond learns a little bit of his nemesis' power.
Of course, Goldfinger and Odd Job are not all that stand in his way - the beautiful Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) proves to be a fair match for Bond in both sophistication and fisticuffs.
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 Goldfinger
Bond follows Goldfinger to his Swiss HQ and encounters Tilly Masterson, the vengeful sister of Jill who is determined to kill Goldfinger.
Bond is captured and brought to Goldfinger's Kentucky estate where he discovers that his adversary is planning an outrageous scheme to increase the value of his own gold by using an atomic bomb to contaminate Fort Knox.
Goldfinger's forces are defeated in an intense battle during which Bond manages to electrocute Oddjob and deactivate the atomic bomb with only a few seconds to spare.
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 An appreciation of Goldfinger-page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Goldfinger was playing around the clock at another theater around the corner, but the idea of allowing nine-year old boys to see a naked woman painted gold was too much for Mom and my aunt, so my cousin and I were escorted to the double feature instead.
Goldfinger s idea (in the book) of taking her to America to serve as a secretary-after she was ready to try to kill him-is ludicrous.
Also, Fleming s book had Goldfinger seriously plotting to steal all the gold in Fort Knox, which, as Bond himself points out in one scene of the film, is utterly impractical.
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 Goldfinger
Auric Goldfinger is the all-time best Bond villain, and one of the best villains in movie history.
Besides helping Goldfinger cheat Bond in a round of golf, Oddjob’s other duties include smothering naked women in gold paint (for a bronze tan most would die for), and administering death via a blow from a lethal tophat.
The action scenes in “Goldfinger” are very inventive, and its impact has not lessened in the years since it premiered.
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 Review: Goldfinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There are several memorable fight sequences (including a climactic struggle between 007 and Goldfinger's nasty henchman, Oddjob) and a lengthy car chase that has Bond's Aston Martin trailing smoke screens and oil slicks, firing built-in guns, and ejecting the passenger seat.
But, when Goldfinger captures the British agent in Switzerland, he decides to keep him as a hostage rather than kill him.
Goldfinger is studded with moments that have since become deeply embedded in the Bond mythos.
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 Amazon.com: Goldfinger: Books: Ian Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Goldfinger was Ian Fleming's 9th James Bond novel and admitedly, it is not one of the stronger entries.
Goldfinger reasons that he can keep the CIA and the British Secret Service at bay by keeping Bond alive and making them think that Bond is his guest, not his prisoner.
Goldfinger is also suspected of being a paymaster to Soviet spies, and thus a target for counter-espionage.
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 Goldfinger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bond foils an attempt by Auric Goldfinger to destroy the value of the bullion held in Fort Knox.
I'm giving GOLDFINGER 5 stars not because it's a great film, but because it's perhaps the best of several with Connery as Bond, and the one that could well immortalize Sean to human history in that role.
Gert Frobe as Auric Goldfinger and Harold Sakata as his henchman Oddjob make two of the most compelling bad guys in movie history.
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 Novels Goldfinger 1959
Goldfinger gets the series back on track as an engaging entry in the series.
The novel is divided in to 3 sections: Happenstance, Coincidence and Enemy Action, which describes Bond's encounters with Auric Goldfinger in the chapters withing those sections.
Goldfinger seems to be cheating DuPont out of several thousand dollars, and DuPont employs Bond to assist in finding out how this is done Of course, Bond succeeds.
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 Goldfinger
Goldfinger promptly orders Oddjob to execute Jill Masterson, who helped Bond, and then her sister Tilly, who came after Goldfinger in revenge.
Gert Fröbe is impeccable as Goldfinger, the madman with the midas touch, whose civilty and charm conceal the festering evil-within.
It is poor Jill who is eliminated by Goldfinger in the unforgettable sequence wherein Bond discovers her iridescent corpse lying on his bed.
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 Movie Info for Goldfinger on MSN Movies
With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy gadgetry, extravagant sets, and kitschy jokes.
Goldfinger is surrounded by evil henchmen such as the sexy female pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) and Oddjob (Harold Sakata), who kills with his steel-rimmed bowler hats.
Goldfinger is one of the most popular films in the James Bond series, and it set the tone not only for the rest of the series but also for most of the action/adventure films of the late '60s and early '70s.
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 Goldfinger - Action Movie Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) is the world's top gold smuggler, and James Bond has to find out why.
Goldfinger enlists the aid of ***** Galore's female pilots and Oddjob's killer bowler hat to initiate his plan.
Anybody who gets in Auric Goldfinger's way, or does something against his wishes(male or female) is killed with vicious brutality, no questions asked.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Goldfinger: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Goldfinger's two climaxes, inside Fort Knox and aboard a private plane, have to be seen to be believed.
The first half of Goldfinger is excellent, with some very memorable moments, such as the car chase with the first modified Aston Martin Bond received.
However, after the part where Bond is nearly lasered by Goldfinger, the film goes from 9 out of 10 to around 5-6, mainly due to the long boring scenes with Bond and Pussy Galore.
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 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent Super-Feature - Characters
It was in Goldfinger’s service that the agent’s eye was replaced by a specially designed gold one, hence the name.
A lover of gold, Auric is a criminal match for anyone on the planet, and is constantly at odds with Dr. No for control of the underworld.
GoldenEye knows all to well that Goldfinger is not a man to trust or respect, but he is indeed a means to an end, as the agent’s only desire is to enact revenge on Dr. No.
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 Amazon.com: Bond: Goldfinger (1965) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Yet, it is 1964s GOLDFINGER which is almost universally acknowledged as setting the blueprint for all future movies not only because it combined all the previous element, but that it put them all together in one bigger and more fantastic tapestry of overblown action and spectacle.
Goldfinger is one of the most recognized and celebrated Bond films, starring the charming, confident, brilliant, and suave Connery as 007, a man every male viewer wants to be and every female viewer wants to be with.
Goldfinger's reaction to the lost shows us how demented and wicked he is while Bond's actions show how clever and how he can take advantage of any moment.
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