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Goldfinger looked as
though it could have been shot yesterday, and stands up
remarkably well in almost every department considering it’s a
staggering 43 years old! All the performances in Goldfinger
are right on the nail, from Sean Connery’s 007, confident and
relaxed panther-like sexual predator, through Honor Blackman’s
purring Pussy Galore, to Gert Frobe’s masterful take on Auric
Goldfinger; the subtlety of his performance coupled with the
masterful re-voicing by
Michael Collins (under the scrutiny of
Director Guy Hamilton & Editor
Peter Hunt) should have won
both actors a joint Oscar! The sound on this new version also
ably amplifies the enormous contribution Dubbing Editor Norman Wanstall added to the film’s overall success, for which he
very justifiably won an Oscar. Goldfinger pushes all
the right buttons in the right order and never lets up until
the man with the Midas touch is playing his golden harp!
No one who
considers themselves a die-hard Bond fan should have missed
Tuesday night’s big screen showing of Goldfinger – if you did,
shame on you, consider yourself severely reprimanded and write
the following on the nearest blackboard a thousand times – “I
cannot call myself a real Bond fan ever again for not
supporting Park Circus in their attempt to screen more Bond
films where they belong – on the BIG screen!”
A friend took his 6-year-old grandson to see the film, his
verdict: “It was great!” So say all of us. |
