One of the greatest movie scenes of all time, you don’t have to be a golfer to appreciate it! What a beautiful golf course love the birds in the background
I was a greenkeeper at Stoke Poges (now Stoke Park) in the early 80's when the course looked quite similar to how it was in the movie. It is shot over the last three holes. The golf swing of Gert Frobe was actually a man called Ray Knock, a local artisan member and very good at golf. He won the national artisan championship a couple of times but died in the seventies.
As I said: the greatest Bond, greatest Bond Villain, greatest Bond henchman, the greatest Bond score, greatest Bond theme song, the greatest Bond girl, greatest Bond movie title, and the greatest Bond movie
Interesting point. Live and let die is a great Bond song and probably the only Bond song that really had a life of its own outside the Bond universe. But musically speaking it is not a Bond song, at least deviates too far from the typical elements of a Bond song. Goldfinger is the ultimate Bond song. It is the archetype of a Bond song. So... I have to go with Goldfinger. @@kovan1975
I hear that Connery and the actor who played Goldfinger became fast friends during the shooting of the film and did a lot of golfing during the their off time.
David Woods Gert Frobe who played Goldfinger was German and spoke very little English. His lines were dubbed by British actor Michael Collins although a few times in the movie Frobe was speaking himself.
I noticed that. I have used how do you do as a greeting but I have slipped in recent years. Actually, alright mate existed back then. These days it’s “yo”.
A year or two after this movie was made, I got to be friends with Oddjob's real-life nephew. Oddjob's wrestling name was Tosh Togo. He was actually Japanese American, not Korean.
You people should understand that this scene built the James Bond character and world....the atmosphere...the zeitgeist....more than any other scene in the early movies.
This movie is so well made. I love how the script writers clearly play golf in the way that Goldfinger and Bond keep talking just before the swing to try and psych each other out.
Lol I like how he said that golf is not yet the national game of Korea 😂 and now the Koreans dominate the LPGA. Also some of the best of both men’s tours are Korean.
0:45; 'Golf is not yet the national game of Korea, hey?', probably is now: dominate the ladies game and a few handy male players over the years as well.
The church across the river is used in Roger Moore's For Your Eyes Only in the pre credits. It is also the graveyard where Thomas gray wrote his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: including the inspiration al line "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" This is used by Kubrick in his film. "Paths of Glory" Aldus Huxley's Brave New World also refers to Stoke Poges Golf course.
Thinking about it, is the reason Goldfinger missed the putt because there was suddenly a 25-odd pound metal block on the green that warped the ground around it?
golf, a sport where subterfuge and gamesmanship, are nearly as important as ball striking and course management. It’s something that comes into play in the cash games at the local courses quite frequently.
Obscure Entertainment he is not friends with Trump but Connery loves to play Golf and he is living in the Bahamas with his wife and has been for years.
I once won a bet - What was the serial number on the bar of gold wagered by James Bond in the golf match with Goldfinger?" Somehow 7190 stuck in my mind when I saw it. Still a good trivia question for Bond movie fans.
Ian Flemming said he took the Goldfinger character and famous line "No, Mr. Bond, I want you to die" from a golfing buddy. Ian tried to pick up his ball and take a penalty. The buddy said, "No, Mr Flemming, I want you to play the lie!"
The gold bar dropped at around 1:18 would have weighed close to thirty pounds and left a large dent in the freshly mowed/manicured green. Nor could Mr Bond have had it in his pocket during the game. In his bag? Possibly. Although the sheer weight wouldn't have been appreciated by his caddy. And I can't see the caddy handing anything to Mr Bond prior to the bar being dropped opposite Goldfinger's short putt. Dropping the gold bar considered a violation of Golf etiquette. You never want to distract your opponent.
You never pick your opponents ball out of the hole!!! The switch would never happen in real life! Also you don't leave you ball in the hole when your opponent is putting!
5:00-What in the...HE WHIFFED. He TOTALLY whiffed that ball, you see that edit there? That's hysterical, Goldfinger needs editing powers to play golf. Okay, obviously I don't expect them to be instantly good at it, it's just funny.
True story. Gary Player's caddie, Rabbit Dyer did the same thing Odd Job did and dropped another ball when Player lost his ball near the 18th green at Royal and Lytham at St Anne's at the Open in the 1960's. Player won the Open, but rumors have it the Players lost ball is in the members' clubhouse, off limits to the general public.
Alex Thompson it’s not and hopefully being sarcastic Oddjob was played by former wrestler and weightlifting champion Harold Sakata who died in 1982 years before Frazier was even on and Martin was played by John Mahoney.
As much as I love this movie, it's completely different from the book (not that there's anything wrong with that). In the book, Bond meets Goldfinger at the Miami hotel and sits amd watches them play a game of cards until he notices a pair of binoculars peering out one of the windows in the hotel. And in the book, it's actually a man called Mr. Du Pont (a guy who Bond played cards with Back in Casino Royale in 1953) who tells him about Goldfinger and not Felix Leiter. Also, the way Goldfinger listens in on what Jill Masterson is telling him is that he actually has a giant visor around his neck (which further supports the "sun tan" lie) which he somehow uses to listen to Jill with.
@@doomo As I recall from the book, Goldfinger was actually planning to steal the gold from Fort Knox. The water supply of the whole town was to be poisoned.
@@doomo Nope, he was wearing a hair piece in every bond film. metro.co.uk/2016/05/24/the-one-thing-you-never-knew-about-sean-connerys-james-bond-5901304/ . www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/jul/21/fashion.jamesbond
That Gold bar today does NOT cost $5000 pounds!!! Also amazing that although Connery likes golf, the German couldnt play and they used a local to play his shots from below the waist. Very convincing filming and body double.
