In the book, M suspects Goldfinger of being connected to SMERSH and financing their western networks with his gold in the film, unusually, there’s no mention made of SMERSH at all. I haven’t read the book, but I believe the film follows it reasonably faithfully. Upon learning of the use of his name, Goldfinger threatened to sue Fleming over the use of the name, before the matter was settled out of court.
Fleming liked to use the names of people he knew, or knew of, throughout his books, and there really was a Mr Goldfinger – British architect Ernő Goldfinger.
Goldfinger was published in 1959 and was the seventh in Ian Fleming’s series of James Bond novels, immediately following the novel of Dr No, which had been filmed first. Ken Adam resumed his position as production designer – he’d worked on Dr No – the title designer was once again Robert Brownjohn, stunt co-ordinator was Bob Simmons, as he had been for Dr No, and John Barry was credited as soundtrack composer. Once again the screenplay was by Richard Maibaum, with Paul Dehn on re-writes cinematography was by Ted Moore and editing by Peter Hunt, as in both Dr No and From Russia With Love. Hamilton’s vision for the film included more humour, more gadgets and more impressive sets, and you can really see the difference between this and the first two films as a result. He therefore went off and directed The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders instead, and Guy Hamilton was approached in his place. Given the two previous successes, director Terence Young wanted a profit-share to direct Goldfinger, but Broccoli and Saltzman refused his offer. Inspired by the successes of Dr No and From Russia With Love, producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman increased the budget yet again, this time to $3 million – apparently it made all its money back within two weeks of release, was the fastest grossing picture in film history when it was released, and is said to have made $125 million overall. Just how does he intend to make his money, and will Bond be able to foil him in the final reel? To find out, you’ll have to watch the film, and remember, careful what you read here, there will be spoilers!
He captures Bond but is fooled into thinking that Bond knows more than he does about Operation Grand Slam. In which James Bond’s mission is to find out all he can about bullion dealer and international gold smuggler Auric Goldfinger.
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