X

Great sites

Anything Hollywood

Atomic Popcorn

Banned in Hollywood

Bits & Pieces

Blockbuster Buzz

Book mistakes

CanMag

The Daily Column

Daily Stab

Defamer

Double Viking

EHOWA

The Evil Beet

Film Drunk

Filmofilia

Filmspotting

Foundry Music

Game mistakes

Geek Tyrant

Gone Hollywood

Hollyscoop

Hollywood Outbreak

I Am Bored

I Love Bacon

Joblo movie news

Movie Banter

Movie Buzz

Movie spoilers

Movie timeline

Other crap

Screenjunkies

Sky movie reviews

Something Really Funny

Tengossip

Trailer Addict

Unreality Magazine

Virtually Existing

Quotes

James Bond: Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?

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

See more...

Mistakes

When Goldfinger is at the airport, we see a jet taxiing in the background but hear a piston-engined aircraft. See more...

Trivia

Fröbe was a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party or Nazi Party. Owing to his connection to the Nazi Party, 'Goldfinger' was banned in Israel until he was publicly thanked by a Jewish family, thus revealing that he had actually aided German Jews by hiding them from the Gestapo before 1945. See more...

Picture

Movie Mistakes blog

Popular blog posts:

Top 15 biggest Harry Potter film mistakes

The biggest mistakes in the Harry Potter movies

15 biggest mistakes in Titanic

The 20 biggest Friends mistake pictures

10 Twilight mistakes in pictures

Goldfinger (1964) - 32 corrections

Directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman, Lois Maxwell, Sean Connery, Shirley Eaton (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click "edit" under an entry, then choose "correct entry". You can also submit corrections for corrections, if you think a mistake has been unfairly removed.

Mistakes
Trivia
Pictures
Quotes
Corrections
Questions
Submit
The homing device Bond puts in the inside trunk lid of Goldfinger's Rolls is magnetic as shown when Q is demonstrating it. However, like the other body work, the trunk lid of that car would have been made of gold, to which a magnet will not stick. [The entire car is not made of gold, just the body panels. Since gold is very heavy but bends fairly easily, any gold on the car would have to have some kind of support structure not made of gold. Bond would have attached the homing device to this support.]
Edit Corrected by Guy
After Goldfinger has been sucked out of the plane, and it is diving as Bond makes his way to the cockpit, there is a man lying on the floor in the cabin who was not previously in this scene. Where did he appear from, as the only people in the cabin were Bond and Goldfinger? This scene has obvously had something edited out. [The man is always there, perfectly visible, and has a noticeable afro: Behind Goldfinger when he opens the curtains, and next to Goldfinger when he fights against Bond.]
Edit Corrected by Sacha
Even if Goldfinger managed to make it back to the helicopter after changing into the military uniform, there is no reason for Pussy to still be inside it considering she had already changed sides, she would have escaped the moment the army rushes in. [She did not need to escape; she just needed to stay where she was until the Army completed their mission. Where else would she go? The helicopter offered some protection (away from the shooting )and a means to remove the bomb from the area quickly if it could not be disarmed.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
Although the gaffe of the crushed Lincoln Contintental demolishing the suspension of the Ford Falcon Ranchero (5,000 lbs. vs. an 800 lb. capacity cargo bed) seems to be pretty well known, there was another, very similar mistake made in the same film. In 1964, a troy ounce of gold was worth $36. If Mr. Solo got $1 million worth of gold bars in the back of the Lincoln Continental, he's got almost 2,000 lbs. worth in the trunk. The trunk can in reality only hold about 400 lbs. [This assumes Goldfinger gave him the correct amount of gold.]
Edit Corrected by JC Fernandez
When the plane carrying Bond and Pussy Galore to the White House goes down, it crashes into the ocean. But the plane was going from Fort Knox, Kentucky to Washington D.C. The plane wouldn't have passed over the Atlantic Ocean or any of the Great Lakes en route to Washington D.C. [The plane has been hijacked by Goldfinger, who intends to take it to Cuba, a journey which obviously involves crossing some water.]
Edit Corrected by Tailkinker
In the scene where Goldfinger meets with the gangsters to explain in detail his plan for entering Fort Knox why does he go to the trouble of announcing his plan when he is going to kill the gangsters a few minutes later? It only serves to let Bond (and the audience) know what's going on, but makes no sense in the movie at all. The gas is fatal - he only tells them it knocks people out to win their confidence. [He does it for the same reason he tells Bond further details of his plot (that he intends to make the gold worthless): because Goldfinger is a megalomaniacal sociopath. He's not rational. He likes to win, and what good is winning if you can't gloat about it... even if it's someone he intends to kill?]
Edit Corrected by JC Fernandez
As Bond discusses Goldfinger's plan with him he states a nuclear device will be detonated in Fort Knox which will cause the gold to become radioactive. While the gold will be irradiated (exposed to radiation), it is physically impossible to make it actually radioactive. [This is simply a character mistake. Poor choice of words used.]
Edit Corrected by papajim
Goldfinger's Grand Slam task force is able to penetrate Fort Knox after the Flying Circus has sprayed the military reservation and surrounding area with nerve gas. To fool Goldfinger and his people, the U.S. Army has instructed its soldiers to fall to the ground and pretend to be dead. That way, Goldfinger will be fooled into believing that the nerve gas attack was successful. While the Army might be able to get its personnel to fake death, how would they go about getting the cooperation of every civilian that lives and works in the area around Fort Knox? Also, since there are numerous horse and dairy farms around Fort Knox, wouldn't Goldfinger's task force expect to see dead horses, cows and other livestock scattered about as they make their way to the Gold Depository? [At no time do they ever show anyone from the civilian population during the "nerve gas" attack scene; the gas was never sprayed over any civilian area. The Fort Knox Military Reservation is several square miles of land surrounding the Depository; there would be no reason to use the gas on the civilian land outside of the Reservation. In the submitter's defense, though, it was very lucky that there was no living wildlife around the Depository when Goldfinger arrived.]
Edit Corrected by BocaDavie
In the title sequence which shows scenes of the movie as titles and credits are shown, all the scenes are from Goldfinger except one. It is the helicopter/Bond chase scene from From Russia With Love. [The fact that clips from the movie and From Russia With Love does not make it trivia.]
Edit
After Goldfinger has lost the card game, Bond is looking at his face in the binocular. We see Goldfingers' hands when he snaps the pencil. How did Bond know to turn the binocular from Goldfinger's face to his hands in that exact second? [Artistic licence, not a mistake.]
Edit Corrected by tw_stuart
In the scene where Tilly Masterson is running through the woods away from Bond and Auric's men, Oddjob throws his hat at her. It hits her in the neck and she simply falls over and dies. However, a few scenes before Oddjob throws his hat at the statue and cuts the head clean off. Shouldn't Tilly have been decapitated? [In the case of the statue, there is no soft flexible material (muscle, tendon, ligament) to hold the statue's head on after the hard material has been broken. It is relatively easy to knock a statue's head off with a club, but almost impossible to do so with a human being.]
Edit
At the congress between Goldfinger & the crime bosses, they all demand the payments owed to them, namely one million dollars each in gold bullion. Goldfinger then teases them by saying, "You can have one million today, or ten million tomorrow", which he explains to mean that, upon executing Operation Grand-Slam, the market value of circulating gold bullion will multiply by a factor of at least ten. But if that's the case, then why would the gangsters be motivated to wait for their parcels of gold? Its value will increase after the Fort Knox job regardless that they take possession today or tomorrow. [Because if they take the same amount of gold in weight tomorrow, it will be that much more in a few days. Why take a million today, when 10 million tomorrow will likely be worth even more after that. Also, saying "tomorrow" is a figure of speech. Commodity markets flucuate, and the best way to increase your profit is to hold onto the commodity. So, take 10 million worth tomorrow, rather than 1 million worth today, and in time the 10 million will be worth even more. Finally, Goldfinger could mean he is giving them 10 million after the job as a reward for their patience, and once the value goes up, the 10 million he gives after the job could be worth 100 million over time.]
Edit
When James Bond is trying to escape Goldfinger's henchmen, he is in Switzerland. When he wakes up he is in an airplane on the way to Kentucky, USA. That plane is a Lockheed Jetstar. It's range with extra fuel is about 5000km. The distance between Switzerland and Kentucky is about 7000km. The Jetstar would never make it to Kentucky. [They could have landed any number of times to refuel. It is never said that it is a non-stop flight. We don't see the entire journey.]
Edit Corrected by Soylent Purple
The director Guy Hamilton found that for the laser scene in which Bond was to be cut in two, a real laser beam would not show up on camera so it was added as an optical effect. The melting effect on the table was achieved by a man underneath the table holding an oxyacetylene torch, while a real laser would have produced a fairly heat-free and silent cut. [This should be in movie trivia, not specifically a movie mistake.]
Edit Corrected by Zwn Annwn
Bond's car has bullet proof windows, yet when he tries to escape from Oddjob and Goldfinger's men (after overhearing "Operation Grand Slam") the front windscreen not only has bullet marks but holes where it looks as if the bullets have gone through the glass. One of these lines up with Bond's forehead and a few of the other look as if they should have caused him some serious harm-but didn't. [Despite what the Bond movies would have us believe, no glass is fully bulletproof so the bad guys presumably had sufficient firepower. We can only assume that Bond's forehead was not in line with the bullet-hole when it was created. Hardly a mistake for him to try to avoid oncoming bullets.]
Edit Corrected by tw_stuart
The girl dies from what is called skin suffocation. Skin suffocation is in reality a myth. [Technically, it's not. Toxins/bacteria, etc. can enter the body through the pores on the skin and be sufficient enough to cause death or serious injury. It's possible that this is what actually happened with the fabled gypsy dancer that this story refers to, and overtime, the "skin suffocation" term was coined.]
Edit
The gold bars depicted in Goldfinger are Trapezoid (a four sided figure with two sides the same length). Several (rare) images from the vaults from Fort Knox that exist show bars as rectangular bars. [The rare photos were taken long after the movie was made. In "The Making of Goldfinger" it states that nobody had seen the inside of Fort Knox. Until recently, the inside of Fort Knox had never even been seen by top US officials.]
Edit
During the "gassing of Fort Knox sequence", you can see one soldier tapping another on the arm as they miss their cue to drop to the ground. Others miss it completely and are still standing as others fall, and a few even take the time to lie down comfortably, rather than just slumping over. [This is deliberate and was done on the instructions of the director. He is planting hints about what is really happening - the 'gas' is harmless and the men are faking their reaction to it.]
Edit
It was a long-standing rumor (due to sexist prejudices) that Pussy's flying circus members were actually disguised men. [Whoever wrote this is subject to PC paranoia. The actresses in the Flying Circus were indeed women, but the pilots who flew the planes during the spraying sequences were men. Indeed, if one zooms the image when the Circus is landing after the practice run, it can be plainly seen that the pilot in the nearest plane has a beard, although he is wearing a blonde wig. it has been stated that the crew had a hard time getting the stunt pilots to wear the wigs in the first place. Not sexist, just practical.]
Edit
When Oddjob kills the girl by throwing the hat at her and breaking her neck, watch when Bond turns her over. Her closed eyes are flickering rapidly, showing that she seems to be having a hard time keeping them shut. [They could have been flickering in her final death throes. That can happen sometimes.]
Edit

1 2 • Next page • Show all