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I swear I didn't pick movies with titles that started with G on purpose! Confused

~ Goldfinger (1964) is, in my opnion, the one James Bond movie that really kicked off the spy craze. Even the other Bond films look like pale imitations. Rolling Eyes

~ Gog (1954) was an incredibly ambitious sci-fi movie, shot in 3D and with a large budget . . . but it's never thrilled me. Oh, well. Sad

~ The Great Race (1965) is a wild comedy with a great cast and superb production values. It's as easy to love as its lovely damsel in distress. (Or its damsel OUT of this dress . . . ) Wink




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Goldfinger (1964)



The James Bond series peaks right here, skillfully combining the suave, world-hopping, girl-hopping charm of From Russia With Love with the gadget-in-every-pocket whimsy that typified the secret agent craze. Sean Connery remains the ultimate James Bond persona, Gert Frobe is the totally believable villain, Harold Sakata's "Oddjob" is the perfect evil henchman, and Honor Blackman is the sexy Pussy Galore.

Honorable mention goes to Shirley Eaton, the gorgeous girl whom the vindictive villain kills by coating her body with gold paint.

Ironically, the girl used in the posters, album covers, and opening credits is the actress who played "Dink", Bond's pool-side playmate in one brief scene at the film's beginning.

Shirley Bassey's rendition of the hit title song became as much a "James Bond Theme" as the steel guitar piece which composer John Barry wrote for the first film and reused for all the others.

The plot is a doozy; Frobe wants to explode an atomic bomb in the gold vaults at Fort Knox so that America's gold reserve will be radioactive and useless, driving gold prices sky high. Bond is formidably armed for his battle with Goldfinger; he has a weapons-laden Aston Martin DB-5 which features built-in machine guns, oil-slick sprayers, smoke-screen blowers, extendable tire-shredders in the wheels, multiple license plates, and of course the famous ejection seat on the passenger side for removing unwanted passengers.

Goldfinger even offers sci-fi fans one of the first laser beam special effects ever done in a movie. The climactic fight between Oddjob and Bond inside the gold vault is almost as exciting as the one with Robert Shaw in From Russia With Love.

Directed by Guy Hamilton.

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Gog (1954)

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Saboteurs are afoot at a top secret research lab in the not-too-distant future. They gain control of a computer that directs the movements of two non-humanoid, multi-armed robots (Gog and Magog).

Richard Egan stars in this potentially good but ultimately disappointing sci-fi entry. The robots are constructed poorly and manipulated clumsily.

Directed by Herbert L. Strock. Gog was based on a story written by its producer, Ivan Tors, the man responsible for Science Fiction Theater, a well-remembered television series that aired in the middle 1950s.

This was originally released in 3-D.

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The Great Race (1965)

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A clever, big-budget, laugh-filled comic adventure, starring Tony Curtis as The Great Leslie, daredevil extraordinaire, and Jack Lemmon as the dastardly Professor Fate, black-garbed villain who competes with Curtis in a New-York-to-Paris auto race.





Both competitors have super automobiles worthy of this globe-spanning trip which takes them across the American West, through the arctic and Siberia, and into the fictitious country of Potsdorf, where they become embroiled in a delightful parody of The Prisoner of Zenda, complete with one of the best climactic sword fights ever put on film.





The rich music by Henry Mancini supports both the slapstick comedy and the epic adventure. Mancini is responsible for some of the best 1950s sci-fi scores. The superb cast does a consistently excellent job under the direction of Blake Edwards.

Peter Falk might have stolen the show as Lemon's sidekick if the competition hadn't been so stiff. Ross Martin (The Colossus of New York) is superb as the sword-wielding villain in the swashbuckler parody.

The gorgeous Natalie Wood never looked better as the feminist spitfire and worthy heroine for Curtis' bigger-than-life hero.








Keenan Wynn is Curtis' gruff-but-loyal sidekick. Honorable mention to Larry Storch (TV's F Troop) as Texas Jack, and to Dorothy Provine (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World) as Lily O'Lay. The film may be a trifle overlong for some viewers, but it is consistently entertaining.
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