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Very cool! I'm from Kentucky and have been there many times. I was lucky enough to drive the Furka Pass this year so I've crossed 2 locations of my list.
Fun! I so happen to live on the flight line of Bowman Field: I'm listening to the planes right now. (Was born on Fort Knox too!) 007 always visits an exotic locale, I think it's great that it was Kentucky once!
2:14 I don’t know why but seeing Tarzan stuntman like that makes me nervous. It looks like the brave man is getting ready for the next big stunt he has to do. I hope he never got hurt…
Hollywood, especially Universal Studios, does amazing jobs combining location footage with backlot shooting. Constructing signage, matte paintings, and other visual cues are all in a day's work. The Dirty Harry films used San Fran locations mixed with backlots to great effect. Check out the liquor store robbery/hostage scene in "The Enforcer." Sure looks like San Fran, but the actual car smash into the building and shoot out was filmed on the same out door set used for Hill Valley in the Back to the Future films. "Kojak" looked like it was filmed entirely in NYC. Nope. Universal Second Unit crews spent 6 weeks filming all the needed location shots in NYC, then the rest of the season was filmed in Hollywood. Universal's Central Park set is incredible, especially when the skyline is added in post production. (This information is given as part of the Universal Studios Tour in CA.) Oh BTW: The Universal information is on the behind the scenes filming doc as part of the 50th anniversary Blu-ray Box set. That would seem to lend credence to the claim, Also the Nevada Film office says Universal Studios.
I know one of the people that has residences that are closest to Fort Knox. Civilian residences that are actually closer than any of the military residence facilities. They are also unfortunately a licensed drone operator, but cannot operate any drone anywhere nearby that base.
Goldfinger is without a doubt the best of the James Bond features and made the character a household name. You might say it set the "gold standard" for the series that was later built on by Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and others. The three days a second unit spent in Kentucky filming three minutes of screen time makes the whole movie believable. Ken Adam visited the site and spoke with Victor Harkin but was not allowed inside. Adam took pictures of the outside which were used to construct two walls at Pinewood Studios. All the soldiers shown marching around , on the streets, was the same squad filmed at different locations. The airplanes flying over the Gold Vault were from a Louisville flying club, and since they did not have the Pussy Galore signs on the doors film editor Peter Hunt used scenes from above the planes so the doors would not be seen. Needless to say the Commanding General of Ft Knox was not very happy with having the film crew on post, but he had no say in it. Orders came down from higher up the command chain.
I was born and raised in Louisville and I now live in a house literally across the the street from the Bowman Field admin building. I was drafted in 1969 and sent to basic training at Fort Knox. We lived in the "yellow barracks building" from WWII. I was later told that after our training cycle the buildings were "policed up", army jargon for tearing down and hauling away. Watching GOLDFINGER it was neat to see Dixie Highway, famous for it's tacky businesses and as "Dixie Dieway" for all the traffic accidents.
Greetings from a Bon Air neighbor and fellow Bond fan. I get geek out every time I see Louisville Kentucky printed on that car door at Goldfinger's ranch.
Great video as always! Any guess for the location at 4:42? I guess it's an area that has been developed now. Definitely filmed in the Fort Knox area though as the very yellow sand is evidenced today when you look at google satellite imagery of the area around it
Well done! I lived on Fort Knox on three separate occasions in my life. Once, when I was a kid, because my Army officer father was stationed there. Then I was posted there to train as a tank crewman in the U.S. Army in 1989. After a two year tour in Germany (with a deployment to the Gulf in 1991), I was re-assigned to a duty unit on Fort Knox until my time in the Army was over. Because it was the 1970's when I lived there as a kid, it hadn't changed much since "Goldfinger" was filmed. And the old wooden barracks were still there while I was in training, but they were in disuse. We called it "splinter village".
1:20 " Ian Flemming was a known admirer of german Otto Skorzeny who revolutionized the asymmetric warfare in his use of intelligence and guerilla tactics, combining them with criminal practices, like blackmail, kidnapping, and extortion. The infamous German officer would later serve as inspiration for the character of Hugo Drax, the supervillain from Moonraker " ( early-days-of-ian-fleming)
Just saw this again the other day. It's one of the over the top, Dynasty era Bonds but I think it has too many fun qualities and performers to be dismissed. It's in that enjoyable sweet spot between good and not so good.
