Number of faults: 33

In order of appearance

Bond and Jill in the binocular scene

When Bond steps out onto the sun deck behind Jill Masterson, he reaches down and turns off the
transmitter that is in front of Jill. But when she turns around and says "Who are you?" Bond is only
just walking out onto the deck!!
As Bond watches Goldfinger cheating at cards, the binoculars move down to show Goldfinger break
his pencil, but Bond's hands never touch the binoculars!

In the binocular-scene, Bond watches Goldfinger break a pencil. Since Bond was watching
Goldfinger through a pair of binoculars, he, nor we, would not hear the pencil break!

Bond and Jill Masterson are found in bed at the hotel. As the camera moves up the length of the bed,
the girls legs are in full view, however as the camera cuts back from the ringing telephone, the girl's
legs are now under the bed clothes!!

Bond is at dinner with M and Colonel Smithers and they start discussing the brandy. The decanter is
passed to Bond who smells it. The next shot is of M, who is sitting across from Bond. However, the
decanter is still in front of M on the table! The next shot shows Bond still sniffing the decanter he
holds in his hand.
Noticed by Allison Stockdale

Oddjob and his lethal hat

At the country club, Goldfinger wants to show Bond who´s really in charge, so he tells Oddjob to
throw his hat at a statue. Oddjob does that and the head of the statue comes off but the hat continues
it's flight. But in the next scene you see the statue,s head and the hat side by side on the ground?!!
The "statue-hand" MOVES when the head falls off after Oddjob has thrown his hat!!
When Bond is chasing Tilly Masterson in his Aston Martin DB5 and starts using his gadgets, a dark
sleeve can be seen opening the arm rest where the console is hidden. However, Bond is wearing a
light-brown suit.

After Bond blows Tilly's tires out, she gets out and looks at them. She gets very mad over her tires
but she apparently doesn't care about the perfectly visible gash down the side of the car!

"Auric Enterprises" can be seen written on the side of the jet, close to the cockpit, when it's on the
ground. Yet in the previous scenes where it is airborne there are no letters on the side of the plane at
all.

Watch carefully as Bond unscrews the handle of his razor to retrieve his minature homer. In fact, the
prop is too big to be inserted in the handle. Instead, Bond palms it to make it look as if it is falling
out. Slow motion is needed to see this clearly, it's impossible to detect otherwise!!
Oddjob takes Mr. Solo to the "airport" in a Lincoln. He then kills Mr. Solo and leaves the Lincoln at
a junk yard and a crane picks it up to put it in a car crusher. When the crane lifts the car you can see
that the car has no engine but it had to have had it before!!

Note the position of the shadow cast by Oddjob's car upon pulling into the junk yard after killing Mr.
Solo. The shadow is directly beneath the car, suggesting mid-day. The next shot, with Oddjob
leaving the car, from further back now shows the shadow to be casting well to the left of the car,
suggesting late afternoon! Could this be the amount of time it took the mechanics to remove the
engine as pointed out in the fault above?!!

The cube that is left when the car and Mr. Solo have been crushed is placed in the back of Oddjob's
car. The car only sinks a little, but if a real car was placed in the back of another car it would
certainly sink a lot. The tires would get flat, etc.
When Oddjob drives away with the crushed Lincoln and we see the CIA agents pass him, you can
see that his car has whitewall tires. However, when he drives up to Goldfinger's ranch, the car has
blackwall tires.
When Bond is being held captive by Goldfinger at the stables, he manages to escape and
subsequently overhears Goldfinger explaining his elaborate plan to the group of gangsters.
Goldfinger then kills all the gangsters with poisonous gas. Why did Goldfinger bother to explain his
plan to the gangsters when he intended to kill them all? It seems that this scene was included simply
to enable Bond to overhear Goldfinger's entire plan.

What was the reason for the blue flashing lights when all the gangsters were being gassed?!!

When Bond and Goldfinger are on the porch, drinking Mint Julep you can see a small angle of a
shadow on the top of the pillars. A few moments later, as a wide shot appears again, the shadow has
changed drastically and too quickly suggesting that this was filmed a lot later in the day.

When Pussy Galore's flying acrobats are releasing the gas on the soldiers at Fort Knox, the soldiers
fall down too soon. I realize the gas canisters were switched by Pussy but at this point in the movie,
we are suppose to believe these guys are dropping dead. Even with such a fast acting gas, several of
the soldiers had the presence of mind to hold on to their helmets as they fell and some managed to
put their hands out to brace the fall. On the other hand, maybe these flaws were intentional as a hint
to the audience that the good guys were in control. What do you think? Cheeze or in depth directing?

The gold bullion in Fort Knox couldn't have been stacked like that. Gold is very dense, and
therefore, the bottom bricks would have been bent or crushed!

During the Fort Knox assault, Goldfinger's henchman Kisch is disguised as a U.S. Army Officer.
Yet, the stripes on his uniform are from the Air Force.

When Bond is in Fort Knox, he throws a bar of gold at Oddjob, who just smiles. It's not really
possible to lift a gold bar with your bare hands but if you could, and you would be hit by one, you
would fall down.

At one time when the vault is opened a soldier gets between the door and the wall. He gets squished
but then the door kind of bounces off him!?!

When Bond is ducking from Oddjob's lethal hat in Fort Knox you can see the hat landing somewhere
on the bars that cover the gold bullion. Later on, when Bond frees himself from the handcuffs, the
hat is in the corner of the walkway.

In the end, Bond is fighting Oddjob inside Fort Knox and in one sequence you can see, in the
shadow on the wall, that Bond pushes himself away from the bars and they bend, like they were
made out of rubber!!! In Fort Knox??!!
When Bond and Oddjob fight in Fort Knox Bond picks up a pole to hit Oddjob. It´s probably
supposed to look like the pole is made out of iron but when Oddjob breaks it you can see that it's
made of wood.
If you look at the timer on the bomb and at the same time listen to the sound, every time you here a
click it is supposed to make one more count down. However, if you try to apply that to only listening
to the sound when the counter is not in view, this does not match. The counter is too slow for the
sound!!

Why is it that it takes Oddjob at least 20 -25 seconds to get down to Bond, and yet the guy that turns
off the bomb only takes about 5 - 10 seconds?

In the end, Bond is nearly blown up by Goldfingers bomb in Fort Knox but Felix Leiter and his
"gang" get to him in time and shut the bomb off. The timer stops at "007"! A while later Bond says
to Leiter: "Three more ticks and Mr. Goldfinger would have hit the jackpot". Isn´t it supposed to be
seven ticks?!!

BUT:
In the original version of the film shown in Britain, the bomb was indeed stopped with a count of
"003", hence Bond's line about "three more ticks" was accurate. The "007" count, which had been
seen as well while the counter was still moving, was later frozen into the edit, no doubt in order to
get a laugh from the audience. This "frozen" version has become the common one, but I saw it in a
London theater in 1970, and the bomb stopped at "003"!

General Goldfinger?
At the film's climax aboard the jet, Goldfinger opens a curtain and enters the plane's passenger area
to confront Bond. Look carefully over Goldfinger's shoulder and you'll see a man standing behind
him! When Goldfinger is history and Bond tries to get to the cockpit you can see a body lying on the
floor. One can only assume that a part of the scene was edited out, in which Bond also fought
another of Goldfinger's henchmen.

After Goldfinger shoots out the window of the jet in the final scenes, you see in the outside shot of
the jet diving, a wire that the prop jet is guided on.
In the final confrontation on the jet, the cabin depressurizes. If this happened in real life, there would
be oxygen starvation and Bond and Pussy would suffocate.

Others
In the opening credits when movie clips are shown on the girls bodies there is a clip of the helicopter
scene from "From Russia with love". Why do they want to show that here?