Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1950 Boobs in the Woods, (co-starring Porky Pig) and directed by Robert McKimson.
At the time of this production, the term boob generally meant a bumbling, silly, clueless type of character. Rather like The Three Stooges.
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour was thinking about Nancy Sinatra and that her birthday was just the other day -
We believe there needs to be a re-evaluation of her and Lee Hazlewood's career
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1964 James Bond spy thriller, Goldfinger, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, and Gert Fröbe. The film was the third film in the James Bond series and also the third to star Sean Connery. The picture is often cited as the best of the Bonds and the one that set the mold for every Bond film to follow. Auric Goldfinger is one of the most memorial Bond villains and Gert Fröbe played him to the hilt. So it is surprising to many that Frobe's voice was entirely dubbed by an actor named Michael Collins. While he was an accomplished actor, Frobe could not speak English very well.
The filmmakers were not allowed to even see the inside of the real Fort Knox, much less film there, and it's a good thing because there was no way the real thing could look anything as dazzling as the set Ken Adam imagined and constructed. In reality, gold can't be piled higher than 2.5 feet due to its weight; here we see it piled 40 feet in row upon row of gleaming brilliance. The comptroller of Fort Knox later sent a letter to Adam and the production team, complimenting them on their imaginative depiction of the vault. United Artists even had irate letters from people wondering "how could a British film unit be allowed inside Fort Knox?" The set was deemed so realistic that Pinewood Studios had to post a 24-hour guard to keep the gold bar props from being stolen. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching Goldfinger.
Sean Connery never travelled to the United States to film this movie. Every scene in which he appears to be in the U.S. was filmed at Pinewood Studios outside London. This explains why Bond flips a light switch down to discover the golden corpse of Jill, as British light switches are generally turned on by flicking them down instead of up. According to director Guy Hamilton, Cec Linder (Felix) was the only main actor in the Miami sequence who was actually there. Connery, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton, Margaret Nolan, and Austin Wallis, who played Goldfinger's card victim, all filmed their parts when filming started in Britain, with rear projections used, and in the case of Fröbe and Wallis, stand-ins used for the long shots.
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