Posted on 03/13/2010 2:20:46 PM PST by Perdogg
It’s the kind of movie “best” lists were made for, and over the years it’s been on plenty of them: Best Movie Quote, Best Song, Best Villain, Most Thrills. It boasts both the most famous car in movie history and what novelist Anthony Horowitz once called “perhaps the most bizarre murder in literature.” It spawned both 1964’s best-selling toy among tots and that year’s “sexiest man alive” among adults. It remains the most beloved entry in the single most profitable cinematic series of all time — adjusted for inflation, the movie cost only twenty-four-million dollars to make, yet brought in an epochal 853 million at the box office.
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Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Pale Ride - Eastwood - comming up om AMC 5:30 Eastern - 4:30 Central.
Watching that now. Another of my favorites, “Kelly’s Heroes” just ended.
Yeah just watched that one also!
I love the older James Bond movies. That new fellow they have playing him looks too much like Putin.
When you watch Pale Rider, think in every situation how it parallels the situations in “Shane”.
I was absolutely tantalized and mesmerized by Goldfinger as a college freshman — and I still am (not a freshman... mesmerized).
Favorite lines include: “He had a pressing engagement.” (Some set of springs and tires on that little Falcon Ranchero pickup, carrying away that 4500 pound Lincoln after it had been crushed. Did you ever think about that?)
My dad and I always get a laugh out of that.
I always thought “Goldfinger” was one of the best Bond movies but I personally liked the low budget “Dr. No” the best. Also “From Russia with Love” was also a classic.
Goldfinger did have the best theme song and Auric Goldfinger was a great villain, maybe the best ever.
BTW, that pistol Bond is holding is obviously a Walther air pistol. I used to have one just like it. It does look sort of exotic tho.
I can’t stand any Bond movie made in the last 20 years, maybe the last 30.
i was posted to fort riley just before goldfinger started filming at fort knox. saw the film at riley and when she told bond her name was pussy galore the theater went berserk. funny.
I was posted at Riley right after that. I sweat so profusely there, my fatigue shirt would turn white (they used to MAKE us take salt tablets...)
Gee... Now I remember why I married my first wife.
I was so scared of Oddjob that when I went over a relative's house and my first cousin's fiancee who was a big hawaiian football player answered the door, I screamed ODDJOB and ran away, nearly getting hit by a car in the street.
My relatives still get a laugh out of that today.
"Ah, ah !"
Not in the movie, but in the soundtrack album. Quite satisfactory!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg6wj0KXfMk&feature=related
Goldfinger Instrumental
This is my favorite piece from the OST. The woman who played Dink (Margaret Nolan) ended up doing some nudie pictures. One could say she was ahead of her time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKV8d6Chvlw
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