Sean's back .. Connery as super smooth James Bond saving America from the clutches of Auric Goldfinger. His apparent plan is to steal the gold from Fort Knox until 007 investigates Operation Grand Slam.

It was the movie that set the trend for the other Bond movies to follow. It gave us the first of the series' pre-title sequences ( not related to the main plot ) with 007 revealing his evening wear under his frogsuit after blowing up a factory. The introduction of the silver Aston Martin DB5 ( now re-used in Brosnan's Bond movies ) with all the gadgets, lovely Bond girls like the 'golden' Shirley Eaton as Jill & Honor tv's The Avengers Blackman as Pussy Galore. A heavy villain in the shape of Gert Fröbe as Goldfinger and the famous laser scene when James asks him "Do you expect me to talk ?" and he replies "No Mr Bond I expect you to die !" will remain one of my favourite Bond moments.

Aided by henchman Oddjob with his deadly bowler played by Harold Sakata whose dialogue seems to be "Aaagh". His end fight with 007 at Fort Knox is a 'Bond classic' and note the lack of music used by John Barry during the scene. Of course the rest of the score is memorable along with Shirley Bassey's rendering of the theme song.

When you watch this movie, the cars may now look slightly dated but the 'big' sets designed by Ken Adam were ahead of their time.

The cast includes the usual support from Lee ( M ), Maxwell ( Moneypenny ) and Llewelyn ( Q). Watch out for the face of Burt Kwouk as Mr. Ling who became more famous as Inspector Clouseau's man-servant Cato in The Pink Panther movies and now the voice of C4's cult show Banzai!.

A Bond treat not to be missed.

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