This week's movie matinee is Goldfinger.
With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy gadgetry, extravagant sets, and kitschy jokes. Bond (Sean Connery) has to prevent a notorious gold smuggler, appropriately named Goldfinger (Gert Frö-be), from robbing Fort Knox.
Goldfinger is surrounded by evil henchmen such as the sexy female pilot P. Galore (Honor Blackman) and Oddjob (Harold Sakata), who kills with his steelrimmed bowler hats. In order to stop Goldfinger, Bond has to survive several perilous situations,
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