Tom Carlile, then press officer for the movie’s distributor United Artists, is quoted as saying that, to secure an interview with Connery, “all a newspaper has to do is send a girl.”ĭespite his notorious charm, not everyone was enamored by Connery. He went to bed at three o’clock every morning and had to get up at seven.”Īlthough Connery was married at the time, Waelty’s book says that every female journalist spoken to during research received “a more or less clear proposition” from the actor. He chopped it all in half,” Dänzer said of Sakata, who was also a wrestler and Olympic medal-winning weightlifter.ĭänzer’s recollections of Connery, who died in October age 90, are somewhat more salacious: “(He) slept practically nothing all week. “On the dance floor in the club he stacked up all kinds of wooden boards and bricks every evening. In the book, a member of the hotel band, Arthur Dänzer, recalls Harold Sakata, the Japanese-American actor who played Goldfinger’s henchman Oddjob, being a “huge attraction.” “There was a lot of drinking and a lot of bingeing,” Waelty said. They paint a picture of a hard-partying production, with plenty of late nights. The week-long production saw a crew of 50 setting up in the small mountain village of Andermatt.Įvolution of James Bond charted in Ian Fleming's letters to wife Ann After Masterson’s failed assassination attempt on Goldfinger almost strikes down Bond, the British agent chases her down and forces her car off the road before casually introducing himself and driving her to the nearest garage.ĭirector Guy Hamilton, together with his production designer and location manager, chose the Furka Pass, which winds through central Switzerland’s Urseren Valley, for the shoot. The famous sequence centers around Bond’s encounter with Mallet’s character, Tilly Masterson, as they separately pursue wealthy villain Auric Goldfinger.
Among the best-known pictures are those from an impromptu fashion shoot with actress Tania Mallet, who is pictured brandishing a – real, not replica – AR-7 rifle. Later photos capture the crew setting up shots and actors relaxing during downtime on set. One of the first images shows the late Sean Connery arriving at Zurich airport with a surprisingly thin head of hair (he wore a toupee as James Bond).
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