"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No, Mr. Bond...I expect you to die!"
-- James Bond and Auric Goldfinger, Goldfinger
Hey there, movie fans! My wonderful co-host Xan Sprouse and I are back with a new episode of Drunk Cinema! This time, we reopen the Drunk Cinema Theater to watch Goldfinger, the 1964 James Bond series espionage film, directed by Guy Hamilton and featuring Sean Connery as James Bond, Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger, and Harold Sakata as Oddjob!
In this seventh episode, Xan and I discuss things like Xan mindmelding with her toilet bowl after our last episode, the Swedish Chef making Xan laugh so hard she can't breathe, Honor Blackman appearing in the Doctor Who story "Terror of the Vervoids", Gert Fröbe as Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, our favorite James Bond themes, Burt Kwouk as Cato Fong in the Pink Panther movies, Goldfinger's popularity creating the 1960s spy movie phenomenon, Bond's black humor puns, Goldfinger cheating at cards, Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson, wondering how Jill's corpse was placed on the bed without dripping golden paint on the sheets, the first time Xan saw Ralph Fiennes, Pinky and the Brain being thwarted by the atomic weight of gold, the Aston Martin DB5, the Get Smart shoe gag, Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce Phantom III made of gold, the importance of seat belts, Tilly looking for revenge for her dead sister Jill, Toonces the Driving Cat, Pussy Galore being a good name for a lesbian, wondering how Bond's suit stays perfectly pressed after being in a suitcase, Goldfinger paying $10 million tomorrow for crime today, Goldfinger's plan to make the United States gold reserve radioactive to drive up the price of his gold, my Dad being stationed at Fort Knox army base in the '50s, the convenient atomic bomb loading cart, Harold Sakata getting badly burned during Oddjob's electrocution scene, Goldfinger getting a reverse enema, our tenative plan to discuss Forbidden Planet, circulating the links, and more!
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Be sure to come back in two weeks for Episode 008, as Xan and I watch Forbidden Planet, the 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and featuring Walter Pidgeon as Dr. Edward Morbius, Anne Francis as Altaira "Alta" Morbius, Leslie Nielsen as Commander John J. Adams, and Frankie Darro as Robby the Robot!