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5	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/ShirleyBassey ♫ Pretty girl beware of this heart of gold\
6	This heart is]] '''[[Music/ShirleyBassey COOOOOOOOOLD!! ♫]]''''']]
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8	->'''Bond:''' Do you expect me to talk?\
9	'''Goldfinger:''' No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to ''die''!
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15	''Goldfinger'', directed by Creator/GuyHamilton and starring Creator/SeanConnery, is the third film in the ''Film/JamesBond'' franchise by Creator/EonProductions, released on September 18, 1964. It was the first film in the series to feature a song as TitleThemeTune, by Music/ShirleyBassey, launching a trend for the majority of the following films.
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17	James Bond has to investigate around the shady businesses of tycoon Auric Goldfinger (Creator/GertFrobe), who has an obsession for gold and a network that stretches from Switzerland to the USA. Bond soon uncovers a sinister plot with the US Bullion Depository at Fort Knox as target...
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19	Has several famous scenes that have been subjected to countless parodies, including: Goldfinger threatening to cut Bond in half with a laser... slowly -- upward, "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to ''die''", Bond's high-stakes golf game, Oddjob and his deadly razor-sharp hat, and the death of Goldfinger's [[HeelFaceTurn traitorous employee]] Jill Masterson, her naked body sprawled across her bed and [[BodyPaint painted gold]].
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21	This movie also gave the franchise its first CoolCar. In fact, one of the great virtues of the film is that the gadgets shown, such as the car and the personal tracer, are ''over 50 years old'' and they still look both believable and neat (and in the case of the GPS-esque tracer, are modern-day consumer goods).
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23	Preceded by ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' and followed by ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''.
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25	!!Do you expect me to talk?
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27	* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: When Bond figures out Goldfinger's diabolical plan. Oddly enough, one could almost say this about an action scene in itself, given how the final confrontation between Bond and Oddjob is done sans music and plays out rather methodically.
28	* ActorAllusion: Creator/GertFrobe in the Swiss Alps? [[Literature/ThePledge It may not be a good idea to let school-age children anywhere near there]].
29	* AdaptationDistillation: The film cuts a long and complex golf game scene into a short bit. More importantly, in the novel, Goldfinger truly does plan to steal all the gold from Fort Knox. The screenwriters have Bond openly talk of how that's physically impossible and then the twist of Goldfinger instead using a bomb to make the gold unusable, which is far more plausible.
30	* AdaptationDyeJob: Pussy Galore and Tilly Masterson were brunette in the book, as opposed to blonde in the film.
31	* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Inverted. The book has Goldfinger's plan be to steal all the gold in Fort Knox, which would be impossible to do in the time he has. Here, Bond points this out... only for Goldfinger to reveal he actually plans to ''irradiate'' the gold with a DirtyBomb supplied by the Chinese to make the bullion he already has more valuable.
32	* AdaptationNameChange: Jill and Tilly Masterton were renamed Masterson.
33	* AdaptationalBadass: While Pussy was capable in the book, the film goes one further by making her a judo expert.
34	* AdaptationalIntelligence: Goldfinger is a smart man in both the novel and the film, but the film version comes off as smarter for a simple reason: in the novel, the plan ''was'' to steal the gold, which as the film points out is impossible to do in the window of time that Goldfinger has. Film Goldfinger instead uses the gold's theft as a cover, and in fact wants to render it radioactive and thus useless.
35	* AdaptationalJobChange: In the novel, Pussy Galore was a professional gangster who'd been operating out of Harlem for years. In the film, she's Goldfinger's personal pilot.
36	* AdaptationalNationality: Pussy hailed from the American DeepSouth in the novel. In the film, she speaks with an upper-class English accent.
37	* AdaptationalSexuality: Pussy Galore's lesbianism is never mentioned in the film, where she merely tells Bond she is "immune" to his charms (and by the end of the film she very much isn't). Tilly was also a lesbian in the book and in love with Pussy, but is depicted as purely heterosexual in the film.
38	* AdaptedOut: The Bentley that featured so prominently in the books is mentioned briefly in a seemingly throwaway line during Bond's briefing with Q, paving the way for Q to introduce what is arguably one of the most iconic CoolCars of all time.
39	-->'''Bond:''' Where's my Bentley?\
40	'''Q:''' Oh, it's had its day, I'm afraid.
41	* AmazonBrigade: Pussy Galore's Flying Circus.
42	* AmbiguouslyGay: SkyPirate Pussy Galore, who says she's "immune" to Bond's charms. In [[Literature/{{Goldfinger}} the novel]], she is explicitly described as a lesbian. In the film, she's entirely heterosexual.
43	* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: When Goldfinger cheats at a game of golf, Bond's caddy remarks "If that's his ball, I'm Arnold Palmer."
44	* AntagonistTitle: Auric ''Goldfinger'' is the antagonist.
45	* ArmourPiercingQuestion: When Goldfinger accuses Bond of bluffing about knowing anything more about Operation Grand Slam besides its name, Bond coolly replies, "Can you afford to take that chance?" Goldfinger decides that no, he can't, and finally switches off the laser with which he was about to bisect Bond.
46	* ArsenalAttire: Oddjob's razor brimmed bowler hat.
47	* ArtisticLicenceBiology: Jill is asphyxiated by covering her entire body with gold paint. Bond explains that people need at least a small patch of bare skin at the base of the spine for their skin to "breathe." This isn't true. At the time the novel was written, "skin asphyxiation" was taken seriously, at least by the public. The studio had a team of doctors on hand while shooting the death scene, and left actress Creator/ShirleyEaton's stomach unpainted to make sure she could breathe. In reality, death could result from heat exhaustion if the paint interfered with perspiration, or exposure to toxins if the paint were unsafe, but it would take a very long time. It's possible, of course, that Goldfinger simply murdered Jill and then covered her body in gold paint as a sort of calling card. Since Bond lived in a society that believed in "skin asphyxiation," perhaps he mistakenly assumed the cause of death.
48	* ArtisticLicenceEconomics:
49	** Colonel Smithers explains to M and Bond that Britain (and its allies such as the United States) keep gold reserves to "estimate the true value of the dollar and the pound". [[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/11330611/How-the-Bank-of-England-abandoned-the-gold-standard.html The UK abandoned the gold standard for fiat money in the 1930s]], although the US didn't fully drop it until the Nixon administration.
50	** Goldfinger and Bond repeatedly mention Fort Knox as containing the entire gold reserve of the United States. The country actually keeps several gold reserves, precisely for the purpose of preventing (or at least mitigating) scenarios such as Goldfinger's plan, though Fort Knox is certainly the largest and most high-profile of the bunch.
51	** {{Subverted\|Trope}} and [[DefiedTrope defied]] in the main plot. Bond figures out Goldfinger is lying to his mob backers when he stops to think about his "plan" and realizes that carting all the gold out of Fort Knox is not only difficult, it would also massively devalue the currency against him. Goldfinger than reveals his actual plan: by nuking Fort Knox, it would create artifical scarcity and jack up the value of his personal gold even more. It should be noted that this is a case of AdaptationDistillation: in the original novel, Goldfinger was planning to steal all the gold. The makers of the film changed it as they knew Goldfinger would need more manpower to do so.
52	* ArtisticLicenceMilitary: The U.S. Army Brigadier General is addressed as "Brigadier"; U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps officers of this rank are addressed as "General", since in the U.S. military it is a General officer's rank. "Brigadier" is strictly a British or Commonwealth form of address. It's understandable that Bond might make this mistake, but Leiter, an American, should know better.
53	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The guards at Auric AU, who are supposed to be Korean if going by the novel, are shouting in ''Cantonese'' according to the [=BluRay=] subtitles.
54	* AudibleGleam: The laser. Interestingly enough, the franchise uses the sound for every single ruby-red laser after this!
55	* BadassInANiceSuit: Bond (in the opening) and Oddjob.
56	* BadassInDistress: Bond spends a good chunk of the film as this, held prisoner by the title villain. He still manages to keep his wits and succeeds in getting Pussy Galore to betray Goldfinger.
57	* BadLiar: Tilly tells Bond that her name is Tilly Soames and she's in Geneva to ice skate. Bond sees right through it by noticing her attaché case which has T.M. on it.
58	* BadassBiker: Pussy Galore is Goldfinger's personal pilot and has her own squad of all-female fliers.
59	* BaitAndSwitch: At first, it seems like Goldfinger is going for the book's plan of robbing Fort Knox. When Bond points out why this won't work, Goldfinger casually reveals that he has no intention of doing so.
60	* BatmanColdOpen: The pre-title sequence plays this straight, and is arguably the finest example of this in the series.
61	* BattleButler: Oddjob is a butler-cum-bodyguard and is a master martial artist whose whole body is covered in protective calluses.
62	* BavarianFireDrill: Goldfinger successfully executes one, impersonating a US army officer to escape Fort Knox by acting like a general.
63	* BigBadWannabe: Mr. Ling, the Chinese nuclear weapons whiz on loan to Goldfinger's operation. Ling acts like a superior to Goldfinger in their interactions reminding him of deadlines and receiving progress reports from him, as the "on-paper" aim of Goldfinger's scheme is to destabilize the West's economy to benefit the Communist countries. He realizes he's being gamed perhaps half a second before Goldfinger puts a round through his heart.
64	* TheBigBoard: The Fort Knox model Goldfinger shows off to the mobsters.
65	* BigRedButton: The famous button under the stick shift in James Bond's car that activates the ejector seat.
66	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Auric Goldfinger, as stated in the theme song:
67	-->''Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold, this heart is cold!''
68	* BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame: Lampshaded; Goldfinger flagrantly cheats throughout the golf game he has with Bond.
69	-->'''Bond's caddy:''' If that's his ball, [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba I'm Arnold Palmer.]]
70	* BlackTieInfiltration: The film opens with a shot of a duck swimming across a pond - but it's not a duck, it's Bond with a duck decoy attached to the top of his wetsuit. Once he gets on land he strips off his wetsuit revealing a perfectly dry, perfectly pressed tuxedo which he uses to blend in to the party going on.
71	* BlindedByTheLight: During the golf game, James Bond tosses a gold bar onto the grass just as Goldfinger is about to make his shot. The light reflecting off the bar (and the distracting sight of all that gold) causes Goldfinger to miss.
72	* BlingBlingBang: Goldfinger's gold-plated revolver, which he uses at Fort Knox and later in his own airplane.
73	* BoardToDeath: Goldfinger kills the mobsters who supplied his equipment needs at a meeting.
74	* BodyPaint: Jill Masterson is killed by being painted solid gold, which is explained as "skin suffocation". Spawned a myth (Summarily busted: You don't breathe through your skin, people — but if you're allergic to metallic powder, watch out) and thousands of imitators.
75	* BondOneLiner:
76	** "Shocking..." (long beat) "Positively shocking."
77	** "As you said, he had a pressing engagement."
78	** "Where's your butler friend [Oddjob]?" "He blew a fuse."
79	** "Where is Goldfinger?" "Playing his golden harp."
80	* BondVillainStupidity: Subverted. While Goldfinger does keep Bond alive, it's because he prefers keeping Bond under his thumb rather than MI-6 just sending another agent in Bond's place and wants to trick the good guys into thinking Bond is doing better than he actually is. In reality, had Bond not turned Pussy in the eleventh hour, Goldfinger almost certainly would have won. Goldfinger was also perfectly willing to just let Bond be cut in half by his laser, and it's only because he realizes he can't afford to risk the chance that Bond's bluff is not a bluff that Bond survives.
81	* BookEnds: A few minutes into the movie, Bond electrocutes a would-be assassin and with a few minutes left, he does the same to Oddjob.
82	* BoringButPractical: Goldfinger's scheme ultimately isn't quite the specacular, over-the-top sensation that most of SPECTRE delves in, but it works well enough; set off a bomb in a national bank reserve, thereby decreasing the total amount of gold in circulation and increasing the value of--and thus the wealth and influence provided by--the gold he already has.
83	* BoundAndGagged: Goldfinger and Pussy leave the real crew of the presidential jet bound and gagged in a hanger while they play NotMyDriver with Bond.
84	* BringHimToMe: After capturing Bond in Europe, Goldfinger has him brought to his horse ranch in the U.S., the control centre for Operation Grand Slam.
85	* BringTheAnchorAlong: Bond is handcuffed to the atomic device inside Fort Knox. When Kish is thrown to his death off a walkway and lands several metres away, Bond drags the bomb with him to be able to reach the body and retrieve the handcuff key from Kisch's pocket.
86	* BulletproofVest: A Q-Branch agent gives one a test with an assault rifle. Pretty advanced stuff, though Q says it's not perfected yet.
87	* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: Goldfinger and his bodyguard, Oddjob. Goldfinger also has several Asian men working for him, implied to have been given by his Chinese backers.
88	* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Auric Goldfinger is fully intent on killing Bond by cutting him in half with an industrial laser in the iconic "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" scene, but Bond manages to talk him out of it by convincing Goldfinger that Bond remaining alive and seemingly in control of the situation will ensure that [=MI6=] won't interfere with his EvilPlan.
89	-->'''Goldfinger:''' You are quite right, Mr. Bond. You are worth more to me alive.
90	* CartwrightCurse: This is the first Bond movie in which a Bond Girl dies. In the forty-odd years to come, many more girls end up following Jill and Tilly Masterson's example.
91	* CeilingCling: Bond tricks a guard into thinking he's escaped, clinging on to the ceiling, and then dropping down behind him once the guard opens the door.
92	* CharacterisationClickMoment: In the previous film, Q was a straightforward bureaucrat who showed up to deliver Bond's equipment then leave. It was this film that cemented his dynamic with Bond - that of an exasperated schoolmaster dealing with an unruly pupil. In fact, Creator/GuyHamilton told Creator/DesmondLlewelyn that he hates Bond. When Llewelyn asked why, Hamilton replied that Q and his team spend ages making gadgets that Bond shows no respect for.
93	* CheatersNeverProsper: In his first scene, Goldfinger is revealed to be cheating in rummy by Bond, who makes him lose. Later, Bond realizes Goldfinger is cheating in their golf game and again, has him beaten.
94	* ChekhovsArmoury: All of Bond's gadgets. First the homer (and the other one), then the tyre shredder, then the smoke screen, oil slick, and ejector seat.
95	* ChekhovsBoomerang: Oddjob's hat. He uses it first of all to decapitate the statue after the golf game, then to kill Tilly Masterson in the woods, [[spoiler:then it cuts the wire in the Fort Knox vault that will later be used to electrocute him. Finally, Bond hurls it at Oddjob, it gets stuck in the vault bars, and Bond uses the aforementioned wire to electrocute Oddjob when he goes to retrieve it through the metal in the rim of the hat.]]
96	* ChekhovsGun:
97	** The giant laser is first used as a threat to execute Bond. It is later used to cut through the outer door of Fort Knox.
98	** Bond's warning to Pussy about the dire effects of firing a gun inside a pressurized aeroplane cabin is later played out exactly as he warned.
99	* CheshireCatGrin: Bond, as he prepares to trick a guard into thinking that he's escaped from his prison cell.
100	* ChinaTakesOverTheWorld: The Reds are in uniforms and Bond identifies a nuclear physicist as being from Red China (Oddjob is from Korea, if North then a Chinese ally).
101	* ColorMotif: Visually, the film uses many golden motifs, reflecting the novel's treatment of Goldfinger's obsession with the metal. The concept of the recurring gold theme running through the film was a design aspect conceived and executed by Ken Adam and art director Peter Murton.
102	** All of Goldfinger's female henchwomen in the film except his private jet's co-pilot (black hair) and stewardess (who is Korean) are red-blonde, or blonde, including Pussy Galore and her Flying Circus crew.
103	** Goldfinger has a yellow-painted Rolls-Royce with number plate "AU 1" ("Au" being the chemical symbol for gold), and also sports yellow or golden items or clothing in every film scene, including a golden pistol, when disguised as a colonel.
104	** Jill Masterson is famously killed by being painted with gold, which according to Bond causes her to die of "skin suffocation". (An entirely fictional cause of death, but the iconic scene caused much of the public to accept it as a medical fact.)
105	** Bond is bound to a cutting bench with a sheet of gold on it (as Goldfinger points out to him) before nearly being lasered.
106	** Goldfinger's factory henchmen in the film wear yellow sashes, Pussy Galore twice wears a metallic gold vest, and Pussy's pilots all wear yellow sunburst insignia on their uniforms. Goldfinger's Jetstar hostess, Mei-Lei, wears a golden bodice and gold-accented sarong.
107	* CompensatingForSomething: In the pre-credits sequence, a girl asks James Bond why he always carries a gun. He just shrugs and says he has a "slight inferiority complex".
108	* ContinuityNod:
109	** Bond is told that his "attaché case" has been irreparably damaged by Goldfinger's men, by which he seems a bit affected. It's easy to presume this is referring to the gadget-loaded briefcase he got in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', and he's realizing how screwed he is without it.
110	** At one point, Bond refers to Felix Leiter's time in Jamaica, referring to the events of ''Film/DrNo''. This is actually a necessary callback as not only is Leiter now played by a different actor, but the new actor is also considerably older than Jack Lord, who played the role previously.
111	* ConveyorBeltODoom: Inversion when the laser beam moves toward Bond instead of the other way around.
112	* CoolCar:
113	** Bond's Aston Martin [=DB5=], with all of its cool gadgets.
114	** Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce is pretty nice, also.
115	** Tilly's Ford Mustang convertible.
116	* CorporateConspiracy: Goldfinger allies with [[DirtyCommies the North Koreans]] to create "economic chaos in the West" by irradiating Fort Knox's gold, thus allowing him to corner the gold market and have the value of his holdings go up even more.
117	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Goldfinger. If you can't have the United States' gold reserves, you can always just destroy them. Wiping out the entire population of Fort Knox (civilian and military alike) in the process is just collateral damage.
118	* CoversAlwaysLie: [[http://www.zoom-cinema.fr/media/photos/4781/affiche-goldfinger.jpg French posters]] let the viewers think Bond is a physical match for Oddjob. In the film, Oddjob is MadeOfIron, [[NoSell none of Bond's attacks work on him]], and Bond defeats him by electrocution.
119	* CrosscastRole: Some of Pussy Galore's all-woman Flying Circus were played by men wearing blonde wigs.
120	* CrazyPrepared: When Bond is wooing Jill, he discovers the champagne they're drinking is too warm. No problem! He's got an extra bottle in the fridge.
121	* CureYourGays: In the book, Pussy is a LipstickLesbian until Bond's magic charms make her reconsider. Honor Blackman discussed this aspect in a 2006 AMC television special, ''Bond Girls Are Forever''. She thinks that Pussy only believed she was a lesbian because Goldfinger (in the novel, it was her uncle instead) abused her pretty badly, and Bond's charm got her in touch with her actual heterosexuality. This is not remotely implied in the movie, however. The one time Goldfinger and Pussy interact onscreen, she's relaxing beside him at his Kentucky ranch and they seem to have a comfortable professional relationship. The movie version of Pussy is, based on the on-screen evidence, heterosexual.
122	* CutTheJuice: The frequently-parodied scene where Bond is about to deal with his WireDilemma, whereupon a disposal technician steps over, calmly reaches under a panel on the bomb, and ''switches it off''.
123	* DastardlyDapperDerby: Goldfinger has his servant Oddjob with his blade-tipped bowler, which was made behind the scenes by turning a chakram into a hat.
124	* DeadlyGas: The Delta 9 nerve gas used to kill the gangsters and intended to kill the Fort Knox guards.
125	* DeadMansSwitch: Bond tells Goldfinger that killing him won't do much in the long run, as his death will simply cause [=MI6=] to dispatch another agent (008) to replace him.
126	* DeathByAdaptation: The Italian spoof ''Two Gangsters Against Goldfinger'' starts with Bond's death.
127	* DeathTrap: The gold-cutting laser Goldfinger has Bond strapped to is one of the most iconic in cinema, if not fiction in general.
128	* DeconstructedTrope: Tilly Masterson's story completely upends the standard RoaringRampageOfRevenge plot. After she discovers that her sister, Jill, has been killed by Goldfinger, she rushes off to Switzerland with a rifle in hand in an attempt to assassinate Goldfinger. You'd assume that she would prove to be a perfect ally for Bond, but instead, since she's an untrained civilian, her attempts to kill Goldfinger can be best summarized as an EpicFail. All she accomplishes is nearly accidentally killing Bond, compromising his position twice, and eventually getting herself killed.
129	* {{Deconstruction}}: The film does this to the plot of the original book, pointing out that Goldfinger's plan to rob Fort Knox would be impossible. Bond states that it would take a bare minimum of 12 days to move the gold out of Fort Knox and Goldfinger would have only two hours before law enforcement is on top of him, and Goldfinger agrees, revealing that his real plan is to set off a dirty bomb and irradiate the gold, rendering it unusable and increasing the value of his own stocks.
130	* DiabolicalMastermind: Goldfinger is a big time international gold smuggler and a millionare entrepreneur, with ties to the Reds.
131	* DidntThinkThisThrough:
132	** Tilly Masterson has learned that Auric Goldfinger has killed her sister Jill and decides she wants some revenge. To do this, she decides to take him out by stalking him in Switzerland, where he has his base of operations, and shooting him with a rifle. Instead of doing a little bit of research, the very least of which being learning how to shoot properly, she rushes off to Switzerland with an [=AR7=] a .22 calibre rifle with pitiful stopping power and range, and is such a horrible shot that she nearly shoots James Bond, who is man standing several hundred feet away and up from her target, causing him to think that she was targeting him instead. She tries to do it ''again'' later, when Bond is trying to infiltrate Goldfinger's smuggling facility. In her idiocy, she stops just short of advertising her position on a neon sign and trips an alarm wire, compromising Bond's infiltration attempt and leading them both into a chase that ultimately leads to her death at the hands of Oddjob.
133	** {{Subverted\|Trope}}. 007 ''thinks'' that Goldfinger hasn't thought his plan through, and points out to him that even if he used his nerve gas on the whole population of Fort Knox, he'd never have enough time to transport the gold from the vaults before military reinforcements came. What he doesn't know is, as Goldfinger explains to him, stealing it isn't part of the plan; his true goal involves detonating a bomb to render the gold in Fort Knox radioactive and unusable, thereby making the value of ''his'' personal foreign holdings in gold skyrocket. (In short, Goldfinger's scheme was intended to be an insider trading scam, taken up to eleven.)
134	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the novel, Oddjob dies by being sucked out of a plane window, while Bond kills Goldfinger by strangling him to death. In the film, Oddjob is electrocuted, while Goldfinger is the one who goes out the window.
135	* DisappointedByTheMotive: ''Beautifully'' subverted. Bond openly says he's "disappointed in you, Goldfinger", as his apparent plan to rob Fort Knox is logistically impossible. When Goldfinger reveals his true scheme, however, Bond has to apologize and admit "it's an inspired deal."
136	* DirtyBomb: Auric Goldfinger's scheme is to use an explosive to irradiate the gold at Fort Knox, all to increase the value of his own personal gold stockpile. In a case of ArtisticLicenceNuclearPhysics, he uses a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_bomb salted nuke]] (which realistically would have reduced Fort Knox to a crater) rather than a proper dirty bomb.
137	* DirtyCommunists: Goldfinger obtains his dirty-bomb material from RedChina, which views his scheme as an opportunity to create "economic chaos in the West".
138	* DisneyVillainDeath
139	** Kisch, thrown over a railing to his death by Oddjob.
140	** Goldfinger himself gets sucked out of a plane before "[[BondOneLiner playing his golden harp]]."
141	* DisposingOfABody: Oddjob shoots Mr. Solo in a car and then takes the car to the crusher.
142	* DistressedDude: The scene where Bond is strapped down to a table with a laser beam slowly approaching his groin.
143	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The German-accented Goldfinger locks a group of men in a room and gasses them to death. It also doesn't help that Creator/GertFrobe had previously been a member of the Nazi Party (albeit he left before the war broke out, and even saved a Jewish family during the war).
144	* DoubleEntendre:
145	** [[{{Pun}} "Shocking, positively shocking."]]
146	** Also, [[PunnyName Pussy Galore]].
147	* DressingAsTheEnemy: After the army arrives, Goldfinger dresses himself as a U.S. soldier to escape. It is worth mentioning that he [[CrazyPrepared already had the uniform on under his coat, with the hat in his pocket, just in case he needed it]].
148	* DropDeadGorgeous: Jill Masterson lying dead on the bed, painted gold. This is perhaps one of the franchise's most famous images.
149	* EiffelTowerEffect: Felix's office has a clear view of the White House, even though the CIA's headquarters are in the suburb of Langley, Virginia.
150	* EjectorSeat: Part of Bond's new Aston Martin. He uses it to get rid of one of the mooks after he is captured in the woods outside of Goldfinger's factory. Played rather realistically in the film, as it's fired by compressed air and only ejects the poor sucker 2-3 yards out. A real rocket-powered seat, as in a jet fighter, would have burned Bond to death and reduced the car to a charred wreck.
151	* ElectrifiedBathtub: The assassin in the opening is killed off when he falls into a bathtub and, just as he is going to grab Bond's gun (as Bond's holster was hung on a coat rack besides the tub), Bond throws a lamp at the tub, fatally electrocuting him. (Reportedly, the effects for this even burned the actor.)
152	-->'''Bond:''' [[BondOneLiner Shocking. Positively shocking.]]
153	* EmptyQuiver: {{Inverted\|Trope}}, the bomb is a purposely 'dirty' one and is meant to ''contaminate'' the gold as any that survives the blast would be radioactive for decades. Thus causing a massive financial panic making Goldfinger's own gold reserves multiply in value instantly, but also causing chaos and upheaval on behalf of the Chinese Communists who supplied the nuke.
154	* EnergyWeapon: The famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) "crotch-laser", which was in-film supposed to be an industrial laser designed to cut gold. It was later used as part of the villain's scheme, however its initial use was far more memorable, hence the name. Interestingly, real lasers of that power level tend to be in the infrared spectrum. The red beam we see might be explained as a secondary guide laser similar to a laser gunsight, not the actual damage-causing bit. In reality industrial lasers of that strength didn't exist at the time the film was made, and the laser effect was animation and a prop man using a blowtorch from under the table.
155	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the ColdOpen (which is itself a very lengthy one), Bond removing his wetsuit to reveal a pristine tuxedo tells you pretty much everything you need to know about his character.
156	* EverybodyOwnsAFord: Ford provided Tilly's Mustang, Felix Leighter's Thunderbird, and Goldfinger's Lincoln Continental, Ford Ranchero and Country Squire (and the government Continental sedans and convertible). Of note is that it's the first time a Mustang was in a film. The film also offers a bit of unintentional foreshadowing, as Ford would buy Aston Martin in the 1990s.
157	* EveryCarIsAPinto;
158	** After a car drives over a cliff, it explodes in mid-air.
159	** At the end, a plane immediately explodes upon contact with the ocean.
160	* EvilGenius: Mr. Ling, the Chinese nuclear expert.
161	* EvilGloating:
162	** Played with when Goldfinger brags about the laser but then is about to let Bond die, but doesn't.
163	** Played straight when Goldfinger shows a room full of men a complicated display of maps and models despite the fact that he intends to kill them all before they even leave the room.
164	* EvilIsPetty: Goldfinger is petty enough that he cheats during friendly games of cards or golf just so he can win (what's to him) rather tiny sums of money.
165	* EvilPlan: Goldfinger's scheme is to nuke Fort Knox to devalue American gold and increase the value of his own.
166	* ExactEavesdropping: Bond overhears Goldfinger revealing all the details of his plan to a group of people he murders 30 seconds after leaving the room.
167	* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Bond does this with Oddjob and his steel-rimmed bowler hat. During his tussle with Oddjob at Fort Knox, Bond seems to miss Oddjob by a mile, where the hat gets lodged in the bars of one of the security cages. Oddjob, of course, thinks this, and goes to retrieve it. While Oddjob is distracted, Bond quickly grabs a live electrical cable earlier severed by the hat and touches it to the bars, electrocuting Oddjob.
168	* ExplosiveDecompression: The finale has the window of a private jet shot out and Goldfinger sucked through the opening. Interestingly, despite the window being the only apparent damage to the plane, it enters an unrecoverable dive, forcing 007 and Pussy to parachute to safety.
169	* FaceDeathWithDignity: Oddjob doesn't seem bothered about being locked in the vault with the active bomb. In fact, Kisch panics and rushes to disarm the bomb, but Oddjob stops him and kills him.
170	* FailureHero: Bond actually fails at everything in this film, and is directly responsible for both Jill and Tilly's deaths. (In fact, if he hadn't ruined Tilly's shot at the factory, Goldfinger would have been killed right there, ending the film an hour early. And he's the one who triggers the alarm when he grabs her gun barrel.) Bond spends the bulk of the third act thinking he's failed and has nothing but desperate {{Indy Ploy}}s left as chance allows him. He even appears surprised that Pussy [[SexFaceTurn changed sides]]. Even killing Oddjob at the end didn't really make a difference, as the heavily-armed soldiers break in a moment later and disarm the bomb, and would have riddled him with bullets if he had made even the slightest attempt to interfere with them.
171	* FakeShemp: The person driving the Ranchero back to the estate is not Harold Sakata but a double with normal-length hair.
172	* FakeoutEscape: Bond tricks the guard into thinking he's escaped, [[CeilingCling clings onto the ceiling]] and then drops down behind him once the guard opens the door.
173	* FatalFlaw: Goldfinger and his {{Greed}}, his obsession with all things related to gold, and a penchant for cheating.
174	* FauxAffablyEvil: Goldfinger swings back and forth with this. He threatens Bond with the crotch laser, but when Bond convinces him that he's more worthy alive than dead, he even has him served a mint julep at his estate. Then Goldfinger reveals that he plan includes a nerve gas attack on Fort Knox, and when Bond points out that it will kill thousands, military and civilian alike, Goldfinger dismisses the casualties as no greater than the number of deaths that occur every year due to auto accidents.
175	-->'''Goldfinger:''' Is that julep tart enough for you, Mr. Bond?
176	* FauxFluency: Creator/GertFrobe played Goldfinger while speaking phonetically, as he was a German who didn't know English (though he spoke too slowly, and the footage had to be sped up for the dubbing).
177	* TheFilmOfTheBook: The book has a plot to steal the gold from Fort Knox (which the movie Bond points out is impossible) using a nuclear bomb to blow open a door while everyone is suicidally close. The movie changes the scheme into a plan to raid the fort just long enough to place the nuclear bomb in the main vault. Any gold surviving the blast would be radioactive and thus worthless, making the value of Auric Goldfinger's own gold jump at least tenfold.
178	* FixingTheGame: When playing cards at a resort, Goldfinger has an employee on a nearby balcony using binoculars to read his opponent's cards. Later when playing golf with Bond, he has Oddjob help him cheat his way out of a penalty stroke. Both times, James turns the tables (first by seducing the card-reading employee, then by cheating even harder at golf). This goes a long way to help establish Goldfinger's character; he's already extraordinarily wealthy, but is still greedy and petty enough to cheat to win (ultimately rather minor) sums of money in friendly bets.
179	* FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss: Bond does this to Dink after the titles after asking her to leave so he can talk shop with Felix Leiter.
180	* ForcefulKiss: Bond's seduction of Pussy Galore starts this way, until things continue more consensually. In the book, on the other hand...
181	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
182	** Oddjob demonstrates that his bowler hat is metal-rimmed by hurling it at a statue and decapitating it. He later kills Tilly Masterson in the woods by throwing his hat at her and [[NeckSnap breaking her neck]].
183	** Bond kills a henchman with electricity in the prologue. Guess how he kills Oddjob at the end.
184	** When Bond first meets Pussy Galore while she's pointing a gun at him on a plane, Bond warns her about the consequences of shooting a gun in a plane at high altitude. In the climax a gun is fired in an aircraft and blows out a window, causing Goldfinger to be sucked out and fall to his death.
185	* FrontlineGeneral: An American brigadier joins his troops in fighting Goldfinger's men at Fort Knox.
186	* GameOfChicken: Bond's Aston Martin proves effective in scattering the mooks in Goldfinger's factory, but as he's driving down a corridor between two buildings he's confronted by another vehicle driving head on towards him with its headlights on full. Bond fires his built-in machine guns, but the car doesn't swerve and at the last second he's forced to, crashing into a wall. It's then revealed that Bond was firing at his own reflection in a steel mirror, set up to reveal oncoming cars at a junction.
187	* GasChamber: Goldfinger turns his rumpus room into one for killing the gangsters who have invested on his heist.
188	* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In a 2002 interview with ''Empire'' magazine, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman say that the American censor was concerned about Pussy Galore's name, but they persuaded him to let them leave it in by taking him out to dinner and claiming to be big supporters of the Republican Party.
189	* TheGhost: Mr. Ramirez, the South American drug lord whose operation Bond disrupted in TheTeaser.
190	* AGlassInTheHand: The insanely strong Oddjob crushes a golf ball in his hand, although he seems rather cheery about it.
191	* GoKartingWithBowser: Bond plays a round of golf with Goldfinger (who, naturally, cheats). Bond doesn't exactly play fair, either.
192	* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: Jill dies by having her body completely covered in golden paint.
193	* GoodGunsBadGuns: The mooks at Goldfinger's European plant carry weapons of Nazi German origin - mostly Walther P38s, and of course the grandmotherly gate guard who wields an MP-40. In the assault on Fort Knox, they use Kar [=98k=] bolt action rifles and MP-40 sub-machine guns. In contrast, the US Army troops use Thompson [=SMGs=] and some M-14 Rifles, and Tilly Masterson uses an AR-7 rifle, the same type of rifle Bond himself used in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', and while her allegiance is ambiguous at first, she is ultimately revealed to be on Bond's side.
194	* GrapplingHookPistol: Bond uses something like this when infiltrating the drug-smuggling compound in the pre-title sequence.
195	* GreaterScopeVillain: RedChina are backing Goldfinger's scheme to cause economic destabilization in the west, and are the ones who put Mr. Ling on loan to Goldfinger. Of course, Goldfinger is still the main threat.
196	* {{Greed}}: Goldfinger's ultimate goal is to increase the value of his gold reserves by irradiating all the gold in Fort Knox.
197	* GroinAttack: How do you get Bond to stop cracking wise? Slowly inch a laser closer and closer to his manly parts.
198	* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Both played straight and subverted. In this case, one guard is fooled to allow Bond to escape, but he is recaptured and the guards intelligently make sure the spy stays put.
199	* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The film starts as a surveillance mission to determine if the titular character is smuggling gold in and out of England to get the best price. Smuggling is forgotten quickly with the phrase "Operation: Grand Slam" which turns out to be a plot to nuke the gold at Fort Knox.
200	* HandSignals
201	** After James Bond convinces Goldfinger that he's worth keeping alive, Goldfinger makes a gesture to his henchmen to turn off the laser beam that was about to cut Bond in half.
202	** After Goldfinger and his men enter Fort Knox, Goldfinger gives a signal to one of the men to open the vault.
203	** While Oddjob is fighting Bond inside the Fort Knox vault, Bond is lying on the floor. Oddjob makes a two-handed "Get up" gesture to him.
204	* HeelFaceTurn:
205	** Jill Masterson early on.
206	** Pussy Galore later on.
207	* HeroOfAnotherStory: 008 never appears, but if M ever tells Bond that if he can't do the mission, someone else will, chances are 008 is that "someone else".
208	* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard: Oddjob, due to never having learned English (he suffers from a cleft palate in the novel.) The only sounds he ever makes in the film are variations of "Ah-ah!" to accompanied gestured orders or to acknowledge when Goldfinger calls him, and later his screaming in pain as he's electrocuted by Bond when he electrifies the metal bars that are holding Oddjob's hat.
209	* HiddenInPlainSight: Goldfinger's entire MO -- he pretends to be deaf to use a hearing aid (in fact, a receiver for a radio, allowing him to cheat), smuggles gold by driving cross country in a car made of painted gold, lounges pleasantly knowing the CIA is watching him, creates a detailed decoy plan just to fake everyone out until it's too late, and successfully impersonates an officer to escape once his plan goes south.
210	* HighHeelFaceTurn: Pussy Galore, after being seduced by Bond. This is even crucial to the plot, since it got her to replace the nerve gas in her pilots' planes with a harmless placebo. The film gives little reason for her change of allegiance and leaves viewers to assume it was just because Bond seduced her.
211	* HighVoltageDeath: Bond kills TheDragon Oddjob by applying a live electrical cable to some steel bars as Oddjob is retrieving his metal-lined hat from the bars. "He blew a fuse," ''indeed''.
212	* HighlyConspicuousUniform: Sort of averted, as the mooks wear grey.
213	* HollywoodDensity:
214	** Bond uses two gold bars to break open the bomb and throws a gold bar at Oddjob. However, he does seem to have some trouble lifting them.
215	** You might notice the cube resulted from the crushed Continental lacks wheels, and for something that'd be at least 2 tons (specially for the gold in the trunk), it barely makes a difference for the pick-up truck that receives it.[[note]]The film crew actually had to cut the cube in half so the truck could support the weight.[[/note]] Said gold also didn't visibly weigh down the trunk of the Continental before it was crushed.
216	** Averted in the main plot - Bond and Goldfinger independently realize that it would take far more time than the Grand Slam team would plausibly have to move ten thousand tons of gold out of the vault and into whatever vehicles they had acquired for the heist. So instead, Goldfinger decided to render the Fort Knox gold valueless to increase the value of the gold he already possesses.
217	* IconicOutfit: Bond's [[TuxedoAndMartini white dinner jacket]], [[BadassInANiceSuit grey three-piece suit]], and... duck hat. Goldfinger's gold-trimmed dinner jacket and Oddjob's butler get-up and bowler hat count, too.
218	* ImplacableMan: Oddjob takes a thrown gold bar in the chest without flinching. In fact, the only time he appears to be even mildly uneasy in the film is when Bond attempts to use his own killer hat against him.
219	* ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: Oddjob's razor-rimmed hat.
220	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Oddjob and his razor-rimmed hat.
221	* IncrediblyLongNote: Music/ShirleyBassey's title song.
222	-->''He loves'' '''GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLD!!!'''
223	* InstantSedation: After Goldfinger decides to keep Bond alive, Kisch uses a tranquilizer dart gun on a helpless Bond to render him instantly unconscious.
224	* InterimVillain: Goldfinger is the only villain from the Connery/Lazenby era who had no connection with SPECTRE.
225	* IntimidationDemonstration:
226	** Oddjob demonstrates his ability with his killer bowler hat early in the film, {{Foreshadowing}} the fight with Bond at the end.
227	** He also crushes a golf ball ion his bare hands, displaying his physical skill and toughness.
228	* JustBetweenYouAndMe: {{Subverted\|Trope}} and {{inverted\|Trope}}.
229	** Goldfinger brags about his plan to his business partners, knowing that he's going to kill them all anyway and that it won't make the slightest bit of difference if he tells them. What Goldfinger doesn't realize is that Bond is listening in on his little presentation; however, Bond misinterprets Goldfinger's plan and thinks that he intends to steal all of Fort Knox's gold, when in actual fact he intends to make it radioactive.
230	** In fairness to Bond, and credit to Goldfinger's intelligence, he is out-and-out lying to his business partners; Bond doesn't realize it until he does some mental arithmetic and realizes that it would be impossible to get away with that much gold.
231	* KissOfDeath: In the theme song, girls are warned to beware of "The Kiss of Death from Mr. Goldfinger".
232	* LackOfEmpathy: Goldfinger, with the backing of Red China, intends to cause economic chaos in the West by nuking the American gold supply at Fort Knox. When Bond asks about the potential death toll of Goldfinger's plan, he just simply shrugs and remarks "American motorists kill that many every two years".
233	* LargeHam: Gert Frobe set the standard for cartoonish supervillainy.
234	* LaserCutter: Goldfinger famously sets Bond up to be cut in half by one.
235	* LastVillainStand: Goldfinger corners Bond on a plane to the White House, holding him up with a literal golden gun, only to miss his target and shoot a window before being sucked out of the plane and falling to his death.
236	* LeadTheTarget: Part of Oddjob's ImprobableAimingSkills with his lethal hat are because of this trope; he noticeably aims a significant distance in front of his moving target, and hits her cleanly on the neck despite the hat being much more slow moving than a bullet or an arrow.
237	* LighterAndSofter: The film was designed to be lighter and less political than the previous entries.[[note]]Though ironically, Goldfinger is much more openly allied with DirtyCommunists than the (nominally) apolitical SPECTRE.[[/note]]
238	* LockingMacGyverInTheStoreCupboard: Bond is able to fool then KO a guard.
239	* LovesOnlyGold: Goldfinger. Obsessed with gold, he plans to increase the value of his own gold by irradiating the US gold reserve, rather than stealing it. The movie (via its theme song) is the TropeNamer.
240	* MadScientistLaboratory: This is the first film in which Bond visits Q in his lab, showing Q Branch working on a number of gadgets.
241	* MagicCountdown: The nuclear TimeBomb in Fort Knox. It should have gone off long before an expert defuses it.
242	* MakingTheChoiceForYou: Bond is handcuffed to the ticking nuclear bomb, and has only seconds to figure out how to disarm it. He's about to go for some wires when an unnamed disposal technician reaches in and flicks an off switch.
243	* MeaningfulName:
244	** Goldfinger's first name, Auric, is derived from ''aurum'', Latin for "gold".
245	** "Pussy Galore" (at least in the novel) is a lesbian.
246	* TheMeddlingKidsAreUseless / NonProtagonistResolver: The role of James Bond in the plot is actually rather limited. He spends most of his time tailing Goldfinger and hanging out in his base as a prisoner, always trying to get intel outside, but failing. Sure, he does manage to kill both Goldfinger and Oddjob, but that doesn't affect the plot very much, and the bulk of the work ends up being done by the US Army and the CIA. They even disarm the nuke for Bond. The only vital thing Bond does manage to do is, ironically enough, screwing Pussy Galore (who then performs a HeelFaceTurn and sabotages Goldfinger's "grand slam").
247	* AMillionIsAStatistic: Discussed. Bond points out that Goldfinger's nerve gas attack on Ft. Knox will kill thousands, military and civilian alike, for no greater cause than what is essentially, robbery. Goldfinger dismisses the casualties as no greater than the number of deaths that occur every year due to auto accidents.
248	* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: When the film starts, Bond's assignment is comparatively mundane, assisting in an international law enforcement investigation into Goldfinger's gold smuggling. During his investigation he discovers that Goldfinger is after much larger game, eventually learning that he plans to detonate a salted nuke in Fort Knox.
249	* MoneyFetish: "This is ''gold'', Mr. Bond. All my life I've been in love with its colour, its brilliance, its divine heaviness..." Ultimately subverted, however -- Goldfinger doesn't fall for Bond's NaziGold trap, and while he shows pangs of guilt when the time comes to irradiate Fort Knox, he goes through with it without noticeable hesitation.
250	* MookLieutenant: Kisch. He isn't exactly TheDragon, but he's close.
251	* MrExposition: Goldfinger explaining how the laser works. {{Justified\|Trope}} in that laser technology was just a few years old at the time.
252	* MurphysBullet: When Tilly tries to kill Goldfinger, she misses her shot completely and hits the ground next to James Bond instead.
253	* MyGodYouAreSerious: Bond talking to Q about his car's ejector seat.
254	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Goldfinger (...He's a man, a man with a Midas touch, a spider's touch...)
255	* NastyParty: Goldfinger explaining his scheme to the gangsters and then killing them.
256	* NaziGold: Bond wagers a captured bar of Nazi Gold in a golf game with Goldfinger, implying that he can supply more to the avaricious gold dealer.
257	* NearVillainVictory: Goldfinger's attempt to nuke Fort Knox and radiate the gold and make it useless was going very well... That is, he would have succeeded if Pussy Galore didn't have a HeelFaceTurn (thanks to James Bond) and replaced the nerve gas in her pilots' planes with a harmless placebo.
258	* NeckSnap: Oddjob breaks Tilly Masterson's neck by throwing his hat at her. At long range. In a forest. ''At night''.
259	* NeverMessWithGranny: The old lady working as a guard decides to get an MP 40 to shoot the Aston Martin (Creator/AlfredHitchcock told Guy Hamilton it was his favourite scene).
260	* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Pussy Galore tells Bond he's Goldfinger's guest. Later, Goldfinger serves Bond a mint julep, explains his plan and has Pussy give him a tour. Trope namer, more or less.
261	* NoSell: Oddjob, naturally, but one situation particularly stands out. When 007 struggles to hurl a heavy gold bullion in Oddjob's way, the latter does not even attempt to dodge it, the heavy thing bounces off his chest like it was made of styrofoam, and Oddjob gives a PsychoticSmirk.
262	* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: The golf match between James Bond and Auric Goldfinger.
263	* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: One character says "Goldfinger's British but he doesn't sound like it." That's the only mention of his inexplicable German accent.
264	* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: Bond and his ForcefulKiss of Pussy Galore is a mild example.
265	* NotMyDriver: A variation: Mr. Solo opts out of participating in Operation Grand Slam, and thinks Oddjob is taking him to the airport. He realizes too late that he's actually being taken to a "pressing engagement" with a scrapyard car crusher.
266	* NotWhatItLooksLike: The swiss gatekeeper of Goldfinger's facility is an old woman who seems to be a nice person that poses no threat in contrast to the asian henchmen who captured Bond. Nevertheless, when Bond tries to escape, the old woman comes out of her shack wielding an MP-40, firing on Bond's car which causes 007 to withdraw.
267	* NowItsMyTurn: A wordless variant occurs, courtesy of Oddjob. When Bond's attacks don't affect him, Oddjob shoots him a smug look before going on the attack.
268	* OhCrap:
269	** Goldfinger's Chicom advisors subtly freak out when Bond claims that [=MI6=] knows about Operation Grand Slam. Goldfinger (correctly) suspects he's just bluffing, but keeps him alive just to be sure.
270	** "Who mentioned anything about ''removing'' it?" Also counts as a WhamLine.
271	** Bond gets another one during his fight with Oddjob. The man silently shrugs off a gold bar to the chest and a few whacks to the face with lumber, then tosses Bond around with hardly any effort, all the time with that creepy grin of his.
272	** Later on in the fight, Oddjob gets one of his own when Bond picks up his hat.
273	** Afterwards, Bond gets another when he manages to pry the bomb open, and upon seeing just how complex it is, realizes he has ''no clue'' how to disarm it.
274	** Bond gets a final OhCrap when a gun-wielding Goldfinger turns up on his private jet at the end - his face completely crumbles.
275	* OilSlick: One of the gadgets in Bond's car.
276	* OneBookAuthor: Despite her impressive film debut as Tilly, this was model Creator/TaniaMallet's only major film appearance.[[note]]She stated that she became dissatisfied with the strict scheduling and the low pay of being an actress; according to her, despite her attempts to negotiate her salary, she made more in a day as a model than she did in a week as a actress, so she went back to modelling full time.[[/note]] She had previously tested for Tatiana Romanova in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''.
277	* OperationBlank: "Operation Grand Slam" is the name of Goldfinger's EvilPlan for Fort Knox, in both novel and film.
278	* OutsideContextVillain: This is the only film in the Connery-Lazenby era in which SPECTRE does not play any significant role.
279	* OvertOperative: 007 poses as a dealer in illicit gold, only to end up strapped to a laser-table with Goldfinger greeting him as "007". 007 naturally denies it, responding with his cover name which is - James Bond! Guess it wasn't as well known at the time. Goldfinger knew who he was because he was working with the Reds and one of Bond's "opposite numbers" identified him while he was unconscious.
280	* PersonalMook: Goldfinger has Oddjob is his BattleButler and chaffeur, and Pussy Galore for his personal pilot and also as the instructor for his own personal air force.
281	* PoolScene: Where Bond caught Goldfinger cheating at cards.
282	* PopTheTyres: While driving alongside Tilly Masterson's car, Bond uses one of the Q gadgets in his car to rip open and flatten the tyres of her car, forcing her to stop.
283	* PoolScene: After the opening credits, Bond is spending time by the pool of a Miami hotel, where he learns of his assignment involving the eponymous villain.
284	* PowerCableAttack: While fighting Oddjob inside the Fort Knox vault, Bond kills him by using a cut power cable to electrify metal bars as Oddjob is retrieving his metal-rimmed hat from them.
285	* PragmaticAdaptation: Over the original book, mostly the tone of racism, homophobia and sexism abounding in it. The novel also has Goldfinger planning to slowly poison the water supply of the troops as if they won't notice and truly remove all the gold in Fort Knox physically. The movie not only solves the poison issue but also the far more ingenious idea of nuking the gold (with a scene of Bond openly relating how stealing it all would be impossible) so Goldfinger's own stocks can rise in profits.
286	* PragmaticVillainy: Operation Grand Slam is much simpler in the film than in the novel: instead of outright stealing the gold from Fort Knox, Goldfinger wants to nuke it so that the value of his auric holdings would skyrocket even more. The theft was just a cover. 007 thought he would break into the vault, but is left flabbergasted when told about it by Goldfinger.
287	* ProductPlacement: By Aston Martin and Ford (who provided Tilly's Mustang and the Lincoln Continental which gets crushed). During the lead-up to Grand Slam, Leiter is seen waiting for sign of activity on Bond's part at a KFC.
288	* PsychoticSmirk: Auric Goldfinger and Oddjob.
289	* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Bond, while fighting Oddjob in the Fort Knox vault.
290	* PunnyName: Pussy Galore. In the film this was supposed to be lampshaded, with Bond's response to her telling him her name being "I'm sure you are, but what's your name?" but this was considered likely to annoy the censors. Bond's incredulous "I must be dreaming" is lampshading enough. Honor Blackman for her part gleefully annoyed the censors by using the character's full name at press conferences and the like.
291	* QuestionableConsent: Bond and Pussy have a martial arts match before he forces himself on her. It's ultimately a subversion, since she (eventually) returns his kiss while they're still fully clothed, but it's pretty uncomfortable to watch.
292	* RealityIsUnrealistic: Connery thought the tuxedo-under-the-wetsuit bit was too humourous and unbelievable. It was actually drawn from writer Paul Dehn's wartime experience of a Dutch resistance operation. It was later successfully tested on ''Series/MythBusters''.
293	* ReflectiveEyes: The opening has James Bond making out with a sultry cabaret dancer and look longingly into her eyes... which reflect her accomplice coming up behind Bond to try delivering a crack to his skull. 'Shocking', indeed...
294	* RefugeInAudacity: Goldfinger convinces multiple crime syndicates to help him rob Fort Knox with the argument that no one will be expecting it.
295	* ResignationsNotAccepted: Mister Solo, after having Operation Grand Slam to rob Fort Knox revealed to him, states his intention to leave rather than take part in the plan with the rest of the gangsters. He is allowed to leave, and in fact, Goldfinger makes a point of saying that "We must respect Mr. Solo's decision". He's then driven away by Oddjob, and rather than taken to the airport, is shot with a silenced pistol by him.
296	* RevealingHug: In TheTeaser, James Bond is making out with a belly dancer in his room just as a hidden assassin emerges with a truncheon and sneaks up on him. We, and Bond then see her oddly calm reaction to the assassin's appearance (as well as the reflection of the assassin in her eyes) revealing that they are working together. Fortunately, Bond catches on, and it does not end well for either of them.
297	* RevealingReflection: The opening has James Bond making out with a sultry cabaret dancer and look longingly into her eyes... which reflect her accomplice coming up behind Bond to try delivering a crack to his skull. 'Shocking', indeed...
298	* RollInTheHay: This is where Bond coerces Pussy Galore to have sex with him.
299	* RuleOfSymbolism: The time bomb's clock in Fort Knox is halted at exactly 007 seconds. This was thrown in as a last-minute gag. The timer was originally going to be stopped at only 003 seconds, which is hinted at by Bond's next line, "Three more ticks and Goldfinger would've hit the jackpot".
300	* RuleOfThree: When Goldfinger tries to kill James Bond with the industrial laser, he tells him, "The reason for our first two meetings is now clear to me. I do not intend to be distracted by a third."
301	* SacrificialLamb: Jill Masterson and her sister Tilly are killed off shortly after each is introduced to show that Goldfinger is dangerous.
302	* SceneryCensor: When Bond finds Jill Masterson lying dead on the bed while covered in gold paint, there's a conveniently placed pillow that blocks the audience from seeing her buttocks.
303	* SceneryPorn: The drive through France and Switzerland. The book includes large sections describing the scenery.
304	* ScheherezadeGambit: Bond saves himself from laser-based castration by convincing Goldfinger that he's more valuable alive as a prisoner.
305	* SelfDestructingSecurity: It's implied that Bond's case from the previous film still has such defensive measures, even though they're never explicitly mentioned. After being captured, he talks to one of Goldfinger's henchwomen on the plane.
306	-->'''Bond:''' Did any of my luggage survive with me? And my attache case?\
307	'''Mei-Lei:''' Black attache case damaged when examined. So sorry.\
308	'''Bond:''' Apologies quite unnecessary.
309	* SexFaceTurn: See QuestionableConsent - Pussy Galore's is a notoriously violent one.
310	* {{Sexophone}}: Used when Pussy Galore's Flying Circus leave their planes, revealing them to be all females.
311	* SexSignalsDeath:
312	** Jill Masterson, murdered by Oddjob on Goldfinger's orders after having sex with Bond.
313	** In the book, her sister Tilly dies because she had become sexually obsessed with Pussy Galore.
314	* SilentAntagonist: Oddjob, can't speak English, so he doesn't talk. Other than the painful scream he emitted as he was electrocuted.
315	* SlapSlapKiss: A literal version with Bond and Pussy, as they go straight from a martial arts match into coitus.
316	* SlipperySkid: Bond uses an oil slick device in his Aston Martin to send a pursuing Mook car to its doom.
317	* SkyPirate: Pussy Galore and her team of stunt pilots were recruited by Goldfinger to assist in Operation Grand Slam.
318	* TheSociopath: Goldfinger is willing to kill 60,000 people, detonate a nuke in Fort Knox, and cause an economic crisis in the West for his own profit.
319	* SoftWater: A plane ''explodes'' on contact with the ocean.
320	* SoreLoser: When Bond and his caddy realize that Goldfinger is cheating by having Oddjob drop a new ball from an easy-to-play lie, Bond finds and swipes Goldfinger's Slazenger 1 and deliberately swaps it for a Slazenger 7 in his hand. Under the strict rules that Goldfinger insisted on, Goldfinger loses the last hole and therefore the match for playing the wrong ball. Goldfinger huffs out in anger, but Bond and the caddy can barely contain their glee.
321	* TheSpeechless: Oddjob doesn't speak English so he never talks, the only thing he ever says is "Ah, Ah!" when notifying Goldfinger during their golf game. And the only other sound he makes is him screaming as he's electrocuted while holding trying to grab his metal hat when he tries retrieving it from metal bars that's it's stuck in as Bond electrocutes the metal bars. In the novel, the reason he cannot speak is because he has a cleft palate.
322	* SpikedWheels: Bond's Aston Martin pops retractable barbed spikes from the centre of his wheels that destroy enemy tyres.
323	* SpyTuxReveal: The intro had James Bond plant a bomb in a drug lord's warehouse, then head for a restaurant while shucking his wetsuit to reveal a white tuxedo underneath.
324	* StealthPun: Happens in-universe. When Goldfinger says that Mr. Solo has a "pressing engagement," no one else catches the reference to [[spoiler:Mr. Solo's impending death by crushing]]. When Bond gets the joke later, he lampshades it.
325	* StoutStrength: Short and stocky (actor Harold Sakata was a former Olympic weightlifter and professional wrestler), Oddjob could shrug off a gold bar hurled at him and was strong enough to crush a golf ball to dust with one hand.
326	* StrappedToABomb: Bond is handcuffed to an atomic bomb and left inside Fort Knox. When the bomb detonates, it will destroy and/or radioactively contaminate the gold supply of the United States, thus causing gold prices to rise and increasing the value of Goldfinger's gold stockpile 10 times.
327	* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Bond during the laser torture-execution scene.
328	* SuperMultiPurposeRoom: Goldfinger has the big game room at his stud farm that transforms into a presentation room, then a gas chamber.
329	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
330	** The point of Bond's speech to Goldfinger, pointing out how it's physically impossible to remove the gold from Fort Knox in anything less than a week and a half and he's going to have the Army and every police agency in the country on him in two hours. Of course, it's right then Goldfinger reveals he has no plans of removing anything. Even better given how the novel ''did'' try to push the idea of stealing the gold, and that in the book, Bond was the only person who thought Goldfinger's plan would fail.
331	** Tilly Masterson discovers that her sister, Jill, has been killed by Goldfinger. In a matter of a few weeks, the untrained woman rushes off to Switzerland with a too-short range carbine (instead of a rifle) in hand in an attempt to assassinate Goldfinger. In the course of her attempt at a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, she ends up compromising Bond's position twice and fails to kill Goldfinger. The first attempt can be best summarized as an "EpicFail". The second sees her tripping an alarm, which results in a lengthy chase that results in Bond getting captured and Tilly getting killed by Oddjob.
332	** This is also early enough in the franchise that Bond's OneManArmy tendencies are still held in check; he needs the help of Pussy's team and the cooperation of American authorities to foil Goldfinger's plan, and even then it's a near-run thing.
333	* TakeThat:
334	** Bond finds time to slam Music/TheBeatles.
335	--->'''James Bond:''' My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit.[[note]]This is inaccurate, since good, vintage Champagne should be served at around 54-57 °F. To serve an expensive and rare Champagne as cold as 38 degrees Fahrenheit would be a complete waste of money.[[/note]] That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!
336	** Auric Goldfinger is named after [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jun/03/film.hayfestival2005 Erno Goldfinger]], an architect who whose buildings Creator/IanFleming hated. Apparently, Erno threatened to sue Fleming for unauthorized use of his name. In that event, Fleming would have changed the name to Goldprick. OUCH! This was later [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the title of the third ''Austin Powers'' movie, ''[[Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember Goldmember]]''.
337	* TalentDouble: Creator/GertFrobe couldn't play golf, so a double was required. Averted with Creator/SeanConnery, whose lifelong love of golf started with this film.
338	* TalkingYourWayOut: Bond uses this to get out of Goldfinger's DeathTrap. He reminds Goldfinger that there are other agents out there who will replace him if he dies, implying that his death would give the rest of MI-6 an excuse to move against him immediately.
339	* TapOnTheHead
340	** Bond is knocked out by a judo chop to the back of the neck administered by Oddjob.
341	** Bond takes down a guard by kicking him in the head.
342	* TechnologyPorn: A great example is when Q shows 007 his new Aston Martin [=DB5=] with all kinds of hidden weapons and features.
343	* TemptingFate: Goldfinger's boast to the gangsters that his "plan is foolproof!" Too bad he's up against James Bond.
344	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Having been thwarted in his attempt to bisect Bond with an industrial laser, Goldfinger decides to blow him up with an atomic bomb.
345	* ThoseWackyNazis: While Goldfinger's German accent and reaction to Nazi gold lead many fans to assume Nazi roots, the character is specifically described as a Soviet agent in the book. Ironically, Creator/GertFrobe was a member of the Nazi party (not for long though), causing the film to be banned in Israel until it was discovered that he used his position to save a family of Jews, very much like a mini-Schindler. The German accent is an illusion. Fröbe didn't speak a word of English and had to be dubbed by English actor Michael Collins. Fröbe was such a good actor that the dub is completely unnoticeable.
346	* ThrownFromTheZeppelin: Goldfinger's crushing response to a gangster's refusal to join him. A pressing engagement, indeed. Not that the mobsters who ''were'' on board with Goldfinger fared any better.
347	* TimeBomb: The nuclear bomb, which stops with 0:07 seconds left.
348	* TrackingDevice: Bond plants one in Auric Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce. Felix Leiter later homes in on the smaller one Bond is carrying to locate the OO agent.
349	* TranquillizerDart: While Bond is helplessly strapped to a table, Kisch renders him unconscious with a tranquillizer dart pistol.
350	* TreasureRoom: The gold depository at Fort Knox. The look on Goldfinger's face when he sees all that gold in piles is wonderful. In the film he plans on irradiating all that gold. In the book, he really does plan on trucking it away.
351	* TrickedOutShoes: A minor example of this trope (after [[Film/FromRussiaWithLove Klebb's poisoned dagger]]) is the trick heel on one of Bond's shoes where he conceals one of the mini-tracers given to him by Q.
352	* TropeCodifier:
353	** Pick a TuxedoAndMartini SpyFiction cliché -- chances are good that it was popularized by this movie.
354	** This movie, more than ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' and certainly more than ''Film/DrNo'', defined the aspects of a Bond movie especially with promoting Q and his arsenal of gadgets.
355	* TuxedoAndMartini: After Bond has snuck in to a drug factory in a drysuit and blown it up. He comes out of the water, removes the drysuit — and reveals a neat tuxedo.
356	* UnexplainedAccent: Despite being played by the very Germanic Creator/GertFrobe, when Goldfinger is introduced Felix Leiter says he's "British, but he doesn't sound like it." Of course Frobe was dubbed by another actor but he is still given a German accent. The character wasn't even British in Fleming's novel (he was Latvian) so why this was put into the film is a mystery (no other details about his background are mentioned)
357	* UnflinchingWalk: The pre-credits sequence, where Bond is the only one at the bar not to react to the huge explosion he planted earlier.
358	* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: Bond tries to kill Oddjob by throwing his steel-bladed derby hat at him, but Oddjob simply dodges it and lets it get lodged in a pair of metal bars. However, he's electrocuted when he tries to retrieve it just as Bond jams a severed power line at it.
359	* VanityNumberPlate: Bond's Aston Martin [=DB5=] has switchable plates, with ''JB 007'' on its Swiss plate.
360	* VillainRespect: {{Inverted\|Trope}}. Bond is forced to give Goldfinger props when he realizes the man's plan isn't to steal the gold stored in Fort Knox (which would be logistically impossible). It's to nuke Fort Knox and thus increase the value of his own gold reserves tenfold.
361	-->'''Bond:''' I apologize, Goldfinger, it's an inspired deal.
362	* VillainousBreakdown: Goldfinger loses his cool once 007 foils his plan to irradiate the American gold supply. He dresses up as an American military officer to escape Fort Knox once Operation Grand Slam fails, and then tries to kill Bond aboard a plane, but is sucked out by the air pressure when he fires his gun on a window.
363	* VillainsOutShopping: A rarity for the films, but while Bond is tailing him through the Swiss Alps, Goldfinger makes a stop to buy some fruit from a roadside vendor.
364	* TheVillainSucksSong: Music/ShirleyBassey would like to remind you that Goldfinger does, in fact, love gold. A lot.
365	* TheVoiceless: Oddjob, although he does get Goldfinger's attention during the golf game by shouting.
366	* WackyWaysideTribe: Bond's infiltration and blowing up of a stash of "heroin-flavored bananas" at the start of the movie.
367	* WatchThePaintJob
368	** Bond's Aston Martin [=DB5=] is ruined when Bond runs it into a brick wall.
369	** Also, the Lincoln Continental put in a car crusher (the crew said everyone on set [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone was silent at seeing such a brand new car getting destroyed]], and during a screening of the dailies, the projectionist entered the room angry asking if they really did it), They had indeed did so; it drove up, was picked up, and then the crushing started without a single cut. They did, however, cut the resulting cube down so it could fit into the pickup that takes it away.
370	** The [=DB5=]'s tire slashers make mincemeat out of the side of Tilly's car.
371	* WeHaveWaysOfMakingYouTalk: Subverted. Goldfinger doesn't expect Bond to talk. He expects him to ''die''.
372	* WeaponizedCar: The Aston Martin [=DB5=], which was also Bond's first WeaponizedCar. Its arsenal included [[MoreDakka Machine Guns]], tyre-slashers, oil-slicks, a smokescreen, bullet-proof shield and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking rotating numberplates]] and an ejector seat triggered by a BigRedButton. And those are only the ones that made it to the screen. Creator/KenAdam also gave it spike droppers, a weapon tray under the driver seat, and a radiotelephone concealed within the driver side door, but these never made it into the movie.
373	* WeaponizedHeadgear: Oddjob uses his razor-edged hat as a deadly throwing weapon. It is strong enough to ''decapitate a statue''.
374	* WhamLine: "Who mentioned anything about ''removing'' it?"
375	* WhamShot: As Goldfinger's men arrive at Fort Knox, the camera zooms in on a nearby car to show Felix nearby.
376	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: When Goldfinger emerges from the cockpit during the epilogue, a second man is clearly visible behind him, but this individual vanishes during the final fight between Bond and Goldfinger (with no indication of him aiding his boss), only to return as an unconscious or dead body on the floor after Goldfinger exits the plane. Likely the victim of deleted footage, as far as the finished film is completed what happened to this man remains a mystery.
377	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: As noted, Goldfinger fully intends to kill Bond, and only spares him for pragmatic reasons, but one has to wonder, if he originally had no plans to let Bond live, why he just didn't use a gun instead of a slow-moving laser that gives Bond enough time to talk his way out of the situation.
378	* WickedCultured: Auric Goldfinger likes his things golden. Even his women.
379	* WireDilemma: {{Subverted\|Trope}}: James Bond only has seconds to defuse a nuclear bomb in Fort Knox, and the best thing he can think of is to attempt to pull out a mass of wires and hope it does ''something''. However, just when he makes the attempt, Felix Leiter arrives with a bomb expert who brushes away Bond and simply hits the off switch for the bomb to stop its countdown. With "007" on the timer.
380	* WouldHitAGirl: Or in the case of opening teaser, allow a girl to be hit by '''someone else'''. Even though Bond has no qualms about hurting women himself if the mission demands it. (At least she exits the encounter with little more than a bump on the head, unlike her mook.)
381	* WouldntHitAGirl: The gatekeeper of Goldfinger's facility in Switzerland is an elderly woman Bond encounters after he's captured the first time there. During his attempt to escape the woman stands in his way out of the compound and fires her MP-40 on him. Despite this Bond doesn't run her down in his bulletproof car and drives deeper in the area, which leads to his recapture.
382	* XanatosSpeedChess: Goldfinger actually outplays Bond through most of the film. At least once he does it unknowingly since Bond secretly placed a note with a tracking device on someone Goldfinger killed for other reasons. In fact, Bond only succeeded due to to a HeelFaceTurn by Pussy Galore and he didn't even know she'd turned.
383	* YodelLand: A small part of the film takes place in Switzerland. Much of the movie actually avoids this trope, however, taking place in Goldfinger's metallurgical plant, hardly part of the typical image.
384	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: This moment when Q shows James Bond the ejector seat:
385	-->'''Bond:''' Ejector seat? You're joking!\
386	'''Q:''' I never joke about my work, 007.
387	* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive:
388	-->'''James Bond:''' Do you expect me to talk?\
389	'''Goldfinger:''' No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to ''die!''
390	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Goldfinger does this to nearly everyone. He gasses the gangsters that supplied him, shoots Mr. Ling after he arms the bomb, and then locks Oddjob and Kisch in the vault with the bomb. Justified with the latter three, as that was when his plan was starting to fall apart and he was trying to get away.
391	* YoureInsane:
392	-->'''Bond:''' Beautiful place Goldfinger has here.\
393	'''Pussy Galore:''' Yes, I'm glad you're enjoying it.\
394	'''Bond:''' Too bad it all has to end tomorrow morning. ''[turns and looks at her]'' He's quite mad, you know.
395	----
396	-->'''James Bond:''' ''[to Pussy]'' Oh no, you don't! This is no time to be rescued.

Context Film / Goldfinger