20 Things You Didn’t Know About Goldfinger (1964)

20. “This Is No Time To Be Rescued!”

Goldfinger is a globetrotting adventure, but the cast and crew had very little exposure to its overseas locations.

Cec Linder was the only cast member to accompany director, Guy Hamilton; production designer, Sir Ken Adam, and director of photography, Ted Moore to Miami, whilst the majority of the other overseas scenes were captured in the UK, most notably at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.

Producer, Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli’s stepson and future Bond producer, Michael G. Wilson - then studying at Stanford Law School - was an assistant director on the film in Fort Knox and Louisville, Kentucky, and also portrayed a Korean guard at the recreation of the United States Bullion Depository on the backlot at Pinewood.

Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Harold Sakata, and Tania Mallet (as Jill Masterson’s vengeful sister, Tilly) visited Switzerland, where the Pilatus Aircraft Factory served as the Auric Enterprises smelting plant, but the majority of the facility was what is now known as “Goldfinger Avenue" at Pinewood.

Meanwhile, Honor Blackman only travelled to RAF Northolt near Uxbridge, which housed Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus. Even the Caribbean island where Double-0 Seven and Pussy find safety was the formal gardens at Pinewood's Heatherden Hall, which had represented SPECTRE Island in From Russia With Love (1963).