Goldfinger - Criterion Collection Laserdisc Preservation

The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, presents

BLU-RAY EDITION

Sean Connery reprises the role of James Bond as he pits his wits against the power-crazed criminal mastermind Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) in the third of the long-running spy series. Goldfinger has secured most of the gold in the world and now plans to render the rest useless. Henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) helps him realise his plans, thanks to his unusually lethal bowler hat, whilst Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) is the glamorous pilot who Goldfinger hopes will execute the raid on Fort Knox that will make him the richest man in the world. Can Bond save the day again or has he finally met his match in the man with the Midas touch?

SPECIAL FEATURES

Audio:

Subtitles:

English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono / English PCM 2.0 Mono / Dolby Digital Audio Commentary / Dolby Digital Music & Effects Track English / French / German / Spanish

Main title: 1080p

Supplementary material: 480p Laserdisc source

GOLDFINGER is under exclusive license from MGM Home Entertainment TM ® © 2019 by MGM Home Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. © 2019 The Criterion Collection.

All Rights Reserved. Cat. no.

CC1267L. 1-55940-152-4.

Warning: unauthorized public performance, broadcasting, or copying is a violation of applicable laws. Printed in the USA. First printing 2019.

1964

An audio commentary with key members of the Bond creative team - director Guy Hamilton, writer Richard Maibaum, editor Peter Hunt and production designer Ken Adam - narrated by Steven Jay Rubin n The Goldfinger Vault - highlighted by location photos, publicity stills and movie posters from Goldfinger and other Bond films n Television commercials for James Bond toys and Bond Bread n The music and effects track - allows you the option of listening to the music and sound effects without the film’s dialogue n The original theatrical trailer

1964 111 MINUTES COLOR MONO 1.66:1 ASPECT RATIO

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The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, presents

BLU-RAY EDITION Sean Connery reprises the role of James Bond as he pits his wits against the power-crazed criminal mastermind Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) in the third of the long-running spy series. Goldfinger has secured most of the gold in the world and now plans to render the rest useless. Henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) helps him realise his plans, thanks to his unusually lethal bowler hat, whilst Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) is the glamorous pilot who Goldfinger hopes will execute the raid on Fort Knox that will make him the richest man in the world. Can Bond save the day again or has he finally met his match in the man with the Midas touch?

SPECIAL FEATURES

Audio:

Subtitles:

English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono / English PCM 2.0 Mono / Dolby Digital Audio Commentary / Dolby Digital Music & Effects Track English / French / German / Spanish

Main title: 1080p

Supplementary material: 480p Laserdisc source

GOLDFINGER is under exclusive license from MGM Home Entertainment TM ® © 2019 by MGM Home Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. © 2019 The Criterion Collection.

All Rights Reserved. Cat. no.

CC1267L. 1-55940-152-4.

Warning: unauthorized public performance, broadcasting, or copying is a violation of applicable laws. Printed in the USA. First printing 2019.

1964

An audio commentary with key members of the Bond creative team director Guy Hamilton, writer Richard Maibaum, editor Peter Hunt and production designer Ken Adam - narrated by Steven Jay Rubin n The Goldfinger Vault - highlighted by location photos, publicity stills and movie posters from Goldfinger and other Bond films n Television commercials for James Bond toys and Bond Bread n The music and effects track - allows you the option of listening to the music and sound effects without the film’s dialogue n The original theatrical trailer

1964 111 MINUTES COLOR MONO 1.66:1 ASPECT RATIO

The Criterion Collection is dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions of the highest technical quality, with supplemental features that enhance the appreciation of the art of film. Visit us at Criterion.com

“Goldfinger” (1964) Danjaq, LLC & United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved.

“Goldfinger” is a trademark of Danjaq, LLC licensed by EON Productions Limited.

Design and Layout - pineapples101@gmail.com

LD 132

The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, presents

DVD EDITION 1964 111 MINUTES COLOR MONO 1.66:1 ASPECT RATIO

Sean Connery reprises the role of James Bond as he pits his wits against the power-crazed criminal mastermind Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) in the third of the long-running spy series. Goldfinger has secured most of the gold in the world and now plans to render the rest useless. Henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) helps him realise his plans, thanks to his unusually lethal bowler hat, whilst Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) is the glamorous pilot who Goldfinger hopes will execute the raid on Fort Knox that will make him the richest man in the world. Can Bond save the day again or has he finally met his match in the man with the Midas touch?

GOLDFINGER is under exclusive license from MGM Home Entertainment TM ® © 2019 by MGM Home Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. © 2019 The Criterion Collection.

All Rights Reserved. Cat. no.

CC1267L. 1-55940-152-4.

Warning: unauthorized public performance, broadcasting, or copying is a violation of applicable laws. Printed in the USA. First printing 2019.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Audio:

Subtitles:

English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono / English PCM 2.0 Mono / Dolby Digital Audio Commentary / Dolby Digital Music & Effects Track English / French / German / Spanish

Main title: 1080p

Supplementary material: 480p Laserdisc source

1964

An audio commentary with key members of the Bond creative team - director Guy Hamilton, writer Richard Maibaum, editor Peter Hunt and production designer Ken Adam - narrated by Steven Jay Rubin n The Goldfinger Vault - highlighted by location photos, publicity stills and movie posters from Goldfinger and other Bond films n Television commercials for James Bond toys and Bond Bread n The music and effects track - allows you the option of listening to the music and sound effects without the film’s dialogue n The original theatrical trailer

The Criterion Collection is dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions of the highest technical quality, with supplemental features that enhance the appreciation of the art of film. Visit us at Criterion.com

“Goldfinger” (1964) Danjaq, LLC & United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved.

“Goldfinger” is a trademark of Danjaq, LLC licensed by EON Productions Limited.

Design and Layout - pineapples101@gmail.com

LD 132

Videodisc Production Credits Produced by David L. Miller,Bill Reed & Steven Jay Rubin Film-to-video transfer supervised by Maria Groumbos Narration by Steven Jay Rubin Second soundtrack edited by Peter Granet Supplement designer Julia Jones Production coordinator Curtis Wong Interviews recorded by Peter Granet, Glenn Williams, Michael Schwartz & Jenifer Anisman Copy photography Mark Brems Extra materials appear courtesy of Warfield Productions, Dogged Research Associates Special thanks to Albert Broccoli, Saul Cooper, Guy Hamilton, Richard Maibaum, Peter Hunt, Ken Adam, Steve Picard, Bruce Eder, Michael L. Van Blaricum and Pamela C. Van Blaricum On-line editor for supplement Jim Sweeny and Howard Stein, Pacific Ocean Post, Santa Monica, CA Film-to-video operator Gregg Garvin, Modern Videofilm, Hollywood, CA

J

ames Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?”

Goldfinger: “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!”

Goldfinger, arguably the best of all the Bond films, features an outrageous plot with a very realistic sense of danger. The third James Bond adventure, the first of the globetrotters, takes 007 (Sean Connery) from the sun-soaked pleasure pools of Miami Beach to England’s rural golfing fairways, Switzerland’s treacherous Alpine highways and then back to Kentucky, U.S.A., home of sourmash bourbon, thoroughbreds and the biggest bank in the world—Fort Knox.

Goldfinger features perhaps the most memorable villain of the entire Bond series—Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) with his fantastic plot to destroy America’s Fort Knox gold repository with an atomic device.

When Goldfinger was released in the United States at Christmas 1964, it was a phenomenal hit, with many theaters opening their doors twenty-four hours a day to accommodate the crowds. By then, the paperback editions of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels were huge sellers, especially among high school and college students who appreciated the sexy, action-packed heroics of the British Secret Service’s most talented double-0 agent.

With a box-office gross of nearly fifty million dollars, Goldfinger guaranteed the huge international success of a film series that thirty years later is still going strong.

With director Guy Hamilton in command, the producers and writers went to work changing key elements of the original Fleming novel published in 1959. First, they updated and refined the plot itself, substituting an outlandish caper to irradiate America’s gold reserves in place of the original novel’s bank robbery.

Stalwart screenwriter Richard Maibaum softened the lesbian character of Pussy Galore and made her not so immune to Bond’s sexual advances. He also modified Fleming’s stock Aston Martin DB-3, turning a more modern DB-5 into a four-wheel arsenal—a virtual Excalibur sword of gadgets. Equipped with machine guns, oil slicks, smoke screen, ejector seat, bullet-proof windscreens and revolving number plates, it quickly became a favorite of fans around the world, and perhaps the most popular film prop in history. Its ingenious homing device which allows 007 to track Goldfinger across Europe from the dashboard of his car, became the prototype for anti-auto theft devices that are popular today.

But most of all, Maibaum honed the popular elements of the first two films that

had worked so well—particularly the funny lines, the sexy Bond playmates and the increasingly outrageous situations in which Bond finds himself.

Goldfinger has the most alluring gallery of women ever seen in the series—Bonita the flamenco dancer (Nadja Regin), who is pulled from a soapy bathtub by Bond in the teaser; voluptuous Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), Goldfinger’s fetching secretary who has a rude encounter with gold paint; lithesome Tilly Masterson (Tania Mallet), who nearly murders Bond on a Swiss highway, only to join him on a high-speed chase in his Aston Martin; and finally, Pussy Galore, herself (Honor Blackman), the most famous of all Bond’s women, a tough pilot and judo expert whose “Flying Circus” of air-acrobats figures prominently in Goldfinger’s “Operation Grand Slam.”

And watch for Oddjob (Harold Sakata) the villainous manservant, a wicked Korean who talks through a very lethal bowler hat. His final battle with James Bond inside the glittery gold depository is a heart stopper.

By Steven Jay Rubin July 9, 1991

Videodisc Production Credits Produced by David L. Miller,Bill Reed & Steven Jay Rubin Film-to-video transfer supervised by Maria Groumbos Narration by Steven Jay Rubin Second soundtrack edited by Peter Granet Supplement designer Julia Jones Production coordinator Curtis Wong Interviews recorded by Peter Granet, Glenn Williams, Michael Schwartz & Jenifer Anisman Copy photography Mark Brems Extra materials appear courtesy of Warfield Productions, Dogged Research Associates Special thanks to Albert Broccoli, Saul Cooper, Guy Hamilton, Richard Maibaum, Peter Hunt, Ken Adam, Steve Picard, Bruce Eder, Michael L. Van Blaricum and Pamela C. Van Blaricum On-line editor for supplement Jim Sweeny and Howard Stein, Pacific Ocean Post, Santa Monica, CA Film-to-video operator Gregg Garvin, Modern Videofilm, Hollywood, CA

J

ames Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?”

Goldfinger: “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!”

Goldfinger, arguably the best of all the Bond films, features an outrageous plot with a very realistic sense of danger. The third James Bond adventure, the first of the globetrotters, takes 007 (Sean Connery) from the sun-soaked pleasure pools of Miami Beach to England’s rural golfing fairways, Switzerland’s treacherous Alpine highways and then back to Kentucky, U.S.A., home of sourmash bourbon, thoroughbreds and the biggest bank in the world—Fort Knox.

Goldfinger features perhaps the most memorable villain of the entire Bond series—Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) with his fantastic plot to destroy America’s Fort Knox gold repository with an atomic device.

When Goldfinger was released in the United States at Christmas 1964, it was a phenomenal hit, with many theaters opening their doors twenty-four hours a day to accommodate the crowds. By then, the paperback editions of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels were huge sellers, especially among high school and college students who appreciated the sexy, action-packed heroics of the British Secret Service’s most talented double-0 agent.

With a box-office gross of nearly fifty million dollars, Goldfinger guaranteed the huge international success of a film series that thirty years later is still going strong.

With director Guy Hamilton in command, the producers and writers went to work changing key elements of the original Fleming novel published in 1959. First, they updated and refined the plot itself, substituting an outlandish caper to irradiate America’s gold reserves in place of the original novel’s bank robbery.

Stalwart screenwriter Richard Maibaum softened the lesbian character of Pussy Galore and made her not so immune to Bond’s sexual advances. He also modified Fleming’s stock Aston Martin DB-3, turning a more modern DB-5 into a four-wheel arsenal—a virtual Excalibur sword of gadgets. Equipped with machine guns, oil slicks, smoke screen, ejector seat, bulletproof windscreens and revolving number plates, it quickly became a favorite of fans around the world, and perhaps the most popular film prop in history. Its ingenious homing device which allows 007 to track Goldfinger across Europe from the dashboard of his car, became the prototype for anti-auto theft devices that are popular today.

But most of all, Maibaum honed the popular elements of the first two films that had worked so well—particularly the funny lines, the sexy Bond playmates and the increasingly outrageous situations in which Bond finds himself.

Goldfinger has the most alluring gallery of women ever seen in the series—Bonita the flamenco dancer (Nadja Regin), who is pulled from a soapy bathtub by Bond in the teaser; voluptuous Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), Goldfinger’s fetching secretary who has a rude encounter with gold paint; lithesome Tilly Masterson (Tania Mallet), who nearly murders Bond on a Swiss highway, only to join him on a high-speed chase in his Aston Martin; and finally, Pussy Galore, herself (Honor Blackman), the most famous of all Bond’s women, a tough pilot and judo expert whose “Flying Circus” of air-acrobats figures prominently in Goldfinger’s “Operation Grand Slam.”

And watch for Oddjob (Harold Sakata) the villainous manservant, a wicked Korean who talks through a very lethal bowler hat. His final battle with James Bond inside the glittery gold depository is a heart stopper.

By Steven Jay Rubin July 9, 1991

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