History Trivia / GoldFinger

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode:

** Music/JohnBarry described his work on the film as a favorite of his, saying it was "the first time I had complete control, writing the score and the song".

** For many years in the pre-home video era many viewers of the film on American television never saw the pre-credits sequence because it was almost always cut in order to sell more commercials. For many who never got to see the film in a theater, the scene remained "missing" until ''Goldfinger'' was released on home video formats beginning in the 1980s.
* TheDanza: Martin Benson as Martin Solo, one of the gangsters in Goldfinger's rumpus room.

* BannedInChina: The film was initially banned in Israel, due to Gert Fröbe having been a member of the Nazi party. However, it was then revealed that he used his connections to save several would-be Holocaust victims, and everything was cleared up.

* CastTheRunnerUp: Cec Linder (Felix Leiter) was originally cast as Mr. Simmons (Goldfinger's opponent at the card game), while Austin Wills (who ended up playing Mr. Simmons) was cast as Felix Leiter.

* TheOtherDarrin: The start of a long chain of Other Darrins for Felix Leiter, as Cec Linder takes over the role from Jack Lord (who wanted too much money to return to the role).

* BTeamSequel: Creator/TerenceYoung chose to film ''The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders'' instead, after a pay dispute that saw him denied a percentage of the film's profits.

* CastTheRunnerUp: Cec Linder was originally cast as Mr. Simmons (Goldfinger's opponent at the card game), while Austin Wills was cast as Felix Leiter.
* TheCastShowoff: Creator/HonorBlackman was selected for the role of Pussy Galore because of her role in ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' and the script was rewritten to show her judo abilities.

* DeletedScene: A scene where Felix would be explaining to the townspeople the plan of faking their deaths to trick Goldfinger was cut, as it made Felix seem 'too heroic' compared to Bond (ironically, it was Felix and his fellow CIA agents who would save both Fort Knox and Bond himself); it also would have spoiled the surprise related to Pussy switching out the gas canisters. The scene was leaked online, but quickly removed by EON, and has never been officially released.

* FakeBrit: Auric Goldfinger is a British character played by a German actor. Lampshaded: "He's British, but he doesn't sound like it." Even though an English actor overdubbed Creator/GertFrobe.

* MissingScene: Sort of. For many years in the pre-home video era many viewers of the film on American television never saw the pre-credits sequence because it was almost always cut in order to sell more commercials. For many who never got to see the film in a theater, the scene remained "missing" until ''Goldfinger'' was released on home video formats beginning in the 1980s.

* SampledUp: The horns and harp melody from the track [[https://youtu.be/lOfW9xw6yJ0?t=63 "Golden Girl"]] (played during the SignatureScene where Bond discovers Jill's gold-painted body) were later sampled in the 1996 single [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATAj1iyzi_o "6 Underground"]] by the Music/SneakerPimps.

* TechnologyMarchesOn
** Averted so far considering how the gadgets in this film have aged surprisingly well and still look believable and practical. For instance, the personal tracer looks about the right size that such a device might look if made today and its hiding place in the heel of Bond's shoe still looks neat.
** Zigzagged with the Aston Martin, in particular the tracking receiver which on the one hand looks old fashioned using back-projected maps, while at the same time anticipating GPS navigation systems.
** The aversion has reached its ultimate conclusion and started looping around with the personal tracer in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' doing the same thing, looking very similar, but somehow being larger.

** Burt Kwouk, who plays Goldfinger's Chinese nuclear bomb expert, will play "SPECTRE 3" in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
** Nadja Regin, as Bonita here, also appeared as Kerim Bey's mistress in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Originally, Creator/OrsonWelles was considered for the Goldfinger role, but proved too expensive. (He would later play Le Chiffre in the Bond satire ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967''.)
** The original plan for the climax was to have the climactic battle happen on the gates of Fort Knox, similar to how it played out in the original novel, but it was decided that it would be [[RuleOfCool much cooler]] to actually get to see the vault from the inside.
** Sylvia Trench from the first two films was intended to be a RunningGag throughout the series, with Bond always about to get intimate with her when the office called. That stopped here, and she never appeared again.
** In the original script, the laser scene had a spinning buzzsaw (as in the novel) until it was decided that such an image had become commonplace and unoriginal.
** The original script saw Bond drive his Bentley from the novels. Before Aston Martin, Bond's car of choice for the film could have been a Jaguar E-Type, a Ferrari or an Alfa Romeo.
** Anthony Newley [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foypp2Kh6cY&list=PL2EE7B1A9A909AD2A recorded his own version of the title song]].

* SampledUp: The horns and harp melody from the track [[https://youtu.be/lOfW9xw6yJ0?t=63 "Golden Girl"]] (played during the SignatureScene where Bond discovers Jill's gold-painted body) were later sampled in the 1996 single [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATAj1iyzi_o "6 Underground"]] by the Sneakers Pimps.

* BTeamSequel: Creator/TerenceYoung chose to film ''Film/TheAmorousAdventuresOfMollFlanders'' instead, after a pay dispute that saw him denied a percentage of the film's profits.

* TheOtherDarrin: The start of a long chain of Other Darrins for Felix Leiter, as Cec Linder takes over the role from Creator/JackLord (who wanted too much money to return to the role).
* TheRedStapler: Due to the popularity and success of this movie, the Aston Martin DB5 gained the nickname, "The Most Famous Car in the World". Sales of the Aston Martin DB5 increased by fifty percent after the release of the movie.

** The original choice for the spy car of the film was an E-Type Jaguar. Jaguar declined and the producers went to Aston Martin.

* BigNameFan:
** Creator/StevenSpielberg cites this as his personal favorite of all the Bond movies and even owns an Aston Martin DB5 due to the impact this movie had on him.
** Creator/RogerEbert named this as his favourite Bond film. It's the only one to be included in his Great Movies list.
** After attending the premiere in Rome, Creator/FedericoFellini was asked by a journalist what he thought of the movie. His enthusiastic answer was "Questi sono i film che fanno andare avanti il cinema!" ("This is one of those films that make cinema carry on!")
** Creator/AlfredHitchcock's favorite scene was when the old lady fires a machine gun.

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* ''Goldfinger'' is the only Bond film to make Creator/RogerEbert's [[RogerEbertGreatMoviesList Great Movies List.]]
* At Pinewood, Creator/PeterRogersAndGeraldThomas were inspired to make a James Bond parody because ''Goldfinger'' was filming nearby their area. Often fans of dueling movies, the parody film was ''Film/CarryOnSpying'' and was released roughly the same time as ''Goldfinger''. It was successful in its own right.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Creator/SeanConnery never set foot in the USA once during the entire production. It was mostly filmed in England. The South American heroin plant in TheTeaser was a disused gasworks in London; Miami Beach was recreated in Pinewood; and Kentucky was actually Kent. The movies would not film in the United States until Film/DiamondsAreForever.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Creator/SeanConnery never set foot in the USA once during the entire production. It was mostly filmed in England. The South American heroin plant in TheTeaser was a disused gasworks in London; Miami Beach was recreated in Pinewood; and Kentucky was actually Kent.

* ActorAllusion: Creator/GertFrobe in the Swiss Alps? [[Literature/ThePledge It may not be a good idea to let school-age children anywhere near there]].

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The iconic opening shot of Bond emerging from a tuxedo beneath a wet suit was inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tazelaar Peter Tazelaar]], a member of the Dutch resistance and a British Intelligence agent during World War II. [[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7601274/The-secret-war-mission-that-inspired-Goldfinger-scene.html Tazelaar was assigned to infiltrate a German-occupied castle in Scheveningen during a reception. He drove to the location aboard a dinghy wearing a wet suit, removing it after landing to reveal formal evening wear underneath. Tazelaar went on to be one of the initial inspirations for Bond, and the scene was added to the film by script doctor Paul Dehn, who knew him during the war.]]

** Cubby Broccoli named this as one of his favourite entries in the series.

* CrosscastRole: Some of Pussy Galore's all-woman Flying Circus were played by men wearing blonde wigs.

* FakeBrit: Auric Goldfinger is a British character played by a German actor. Lampshaded: "He's British, but he doesn't sound like it." Even though an English actor overdubbed Gert Frobe.

** All of Goldfinger's lines are dubbed, as Gert Fröbe spoke very poor English. It's really an amazing job, and you'd never know just watching the film.
** Curiously, it seems Sean Connery may have had to do the same thing for his character, particularly for his most iconic line "Do you expect me to talk?", as the way he said it in the trailer is completely different from the way he said it in the actual film.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen
** Originally, Creator/OrsonWelles was considered for the Goldfinger role, but proved too expensive. (He would later play Le Chiffre in the Bond satire ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967''.) Folk singer and actor Theodore Bikel also tested for the role.

* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor:
** German actor Creator/GertFrobe as Goldfinger. He was a member of the Nazi Party, and the film was consequently banned in Israel for many years until it was revealed that he secretly helped Jews flee the country. He was also uncomfortable at the idea of playing a German character who gasses to death a large number of people.
** Harold Sakata as Oddjob too; Sakata had a reputation as a gentle giant off screen.

* TheOtherDarrin: The start of a long chain of Other Darrins for Felix Leiter, as Cec Linder takes over the role from Creator/JackLord (who wanted too much money to return to the role). Also the start of a tradition of casting ''very'' different actors each time (Lord was a young man in his early 30s; Linder was in his mid-40s).

* AwesomeDearBoy: Around the time when ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' came out, a TV special was produced reminiscing about all things Bond over the years. Several past Bond Girls were interviewed, and most of them seemed to have a problem with the term "Bond Girl," for various reasons. Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore), on the other hand, said that not only did she feel that Bond Girl was the correct term, but that she was proud to call herself one. This is notable in that Blackman was older than the other actresses who were interviewed for the special.

* ''Goldfinger'' is the only Bond film to make Creator/RogerEbert's [[RogerEbertGreatMoviesList Great Movies List.]]

* DeletedScene: A scene where Felix would be explaining to the townspeople the plan of faking their deaths to trick Goldfinger was cut, as it made Felix seem 'too heroic' compared to Bond (ironically, it was Felix and his fellow CIA agents who would save both Fort Knox and Bond himself). The scene was leaked online, but quickly removed by EON, and has never been officially released.

* FakeBrit: Auric Goldfinger is a British character played by a German actor. Lampshaded: "He's British, but he doesn't sound like it."

* TheOtherDarrin: The start of a long chain of Other Darrins for Felix Leiter, as Cec Linder takes over the role from Creator/JackLord (who wanted too much money to return to the role).

** Originally, Creator/OrsonWelles was considered for the Goldfinger role, but proved too expensive. (He would later play Le Chiffre in the Bond satire ''[[Film/CasinoRoyale1967 Casino Royale]]''.) Folk singer and actor Theodore Bikel also tested for the role.