Goofs

When Bond is getting a rubdown from Dink, his back is perfectly shaved. When he wakes up the next morning with Jill, he has apparently grown a good deal of back hair.

After Bond ejects Goldfinger's henchman at the factory, subsequent shots of the Aston Martin show the roof sections intact.

When the Lincoln is being lifted into the crusher, the car tilts, and it is obvious that there is nothing i.e. no body in the back seat.

The crushed car arrives at Goldfinger's ranch in a different shape than it was when it was dropped into the back of Oddjob's Ford Ranchero.

Goldfinger's crew uses a giant truck-mounted laser to burn their way through the Fort Knox entrance. Several shots of the truck show the laser beam being moved across the entrance extremely rapidly; however, when these shots are intercut with views of the entrance itself, the beam inches across the entrance door very, very slowly.

There is nothing about decompression that changes the aerodynamics of aircraft. Wings still produce lift and the control surfaces still function. Remember Aloha 243 landed safely with a third of its upper fuselage missing.

In addition to what has been pointed out by others about the small Ford Falcon-based Ranchero truck never being able to carry the crushed Lincoln Continental (weight doesn't change because something is compacted to a smaller physical size), the Continental's large-block cast iron engine (which is fairly non-compressible)is almost as large as the depicted "cube" by itself let alone all the rest of the car's parts. Even today, there is no way a vehicle of that size can be turned into a compacted cube of the small size that was depicted, let alone with crushing equipment from 50 years ago.

The idea that all-over gold paint would suffocate someone is something Ian Fleming made up.

In the Fort Knox vault, the gold is stacked too high to be practical. Given the weight and softness of gold, the lower bars of the stacks would be flattened by the sheer weight of the bars above them.

As they blow the gate of Fort Knox open, you can see the American flag flying on a nearby flagpole. The flag has 48 stars, and was about 5 years out of date. Alaska became a state on January 3, 1959, and the flag changed to 49 stars on July 4, 1959. Hawaii became a state on August 21, 1959, and the flag changed to 50 stars on July 4, 1960.

While Bond is giving Tilly a lift to the garage, he looks in his rear view mirror at the initials on her case. He sees "T.M." His view should be ".M.T" This is because we don't see a camera shot of the mirror. The camera shows the case in the back, so the initials are not mirrored.

As they watch him meet up with "his pigeon", Felix tells Bond: "That Goldfinger's a fabulous card player." It takes Bond less than a minute to deduce Goldfinger is "a fabulous card player" because he cheats, yet Felix, who has had Goldfinger under surveillance for a week, didn't figure that out.

This is why Bond is considered to be the best secret agent in the world.

When infiltrating Fort Knox, Goldfinger wears a U.S. Army general officer's uniform (wide band on sleeve, two stripes on trousers) yet sports the silver eagle of a colonel on his shoulder boards.

Goldfinger is not a real general so he is not wearing an authentic uniform with all of the proper regalia; it is a prop uniform and just like a movie prop uniform, it may not be completely accurate.

When Goldfinger is getting ready to slice Bond in half with his laser Bond claims he knows all about Operation Grand Slam. All Goldfinger would have had to do was tell Bond to tell him what Operation Grand Slam was and Bond would have been dead meat because he obviously couldn't have done that.

And all Bond would have to do is remain coy about what he actually knows, enough to sow doubt in Goldfinger's mind as to what the extent of his knowledge is, hence the comment "Can you afford to take that chance?"

During the "laser" scene, Goldfinger reveals that Bond has been outed by "one of your opposite numbers, who is also licensed to kill".

MI6 has not been compromised; an "opposite number" is a person's counterpart within an opposing force, so Goldfinger is referring to a spy from another country.

The reflection that Bond sees in the girl's eye isn't a mirror image like a true reflection would be.

When the crusher picks up the 1964 Lincoln Continental, as it lifts the car, the weight of the engine causes the car to tilt forward, however, with so much gold in the trunk, you would expect the car to stay level or tilt backward.

The common misconception of junkyard operations is that a car is taken "raw", squeezed, and simply compacted into a two-foot cube as depicted. In reality, the glass, rubber, metal, plastic, vinyl and other materials are all run through a chopper, which breaks down everything into small parts which are then separated according to the material type. The metal (steel and iron engine parts, chrome bumpers, etc.) is magnetically separated from the scrap, and Goldfinger's gold, being non-magnetic, would not have stuck to the magnet and would been mingled along with all the other virtually worthless scraps.

A standard gold bar used by banks and bullion dealers weighs 400 troy-ounces, or 27.5 pounds each. Goldfinger's henchmen are transferring the gold bars to the truck as if they weighed almost nothing.

When the "Flying Circus" planes land and taxi to a stop, one can clearly see that the pilot of the nearest plane, who is looking at the camera making sure not to hit it with the wing, is a burly man wearing a blonde wig. It is basically a yellow hat with pigtails.

A back cover on a home video release for this film has the quote "Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?" that's a slight misquote, he doesn't end it with 'Goldfinger'.

How did bond attach a magnetic device to a gold car when the metal gold is non ferrous and not magnetic?.

When Auric Goldfinger is talking to Mr. Ling about the process of melting down the gold from the car, his lips never move.

After Goldfinger's been beaten at Gin Rummy and snaps a pencil in anger, we hear this while we're seeing through Jill's binoculars. We wouldn't be able to hear something like that from Jill's vantage point, several floors up from the pool area.

In the first dialogue of the pre-credits sequence, when Bond chats to Sierra just after the explosion, the actor playing Sierra has clearly been dubbed.

After Goldfinger writes a check in his car, he closes the door. You can clearly see the film crew in the reflection of said door.

As Bond regains consciousness after being struck by Oddjob, the shadow of the camera and boom moving is visible on the bottom of the cupboards.

When Bond drives his Aston Martin between the buildings of Goldfinger's facility, the studio roof is visible instead of a clear night sky.

The stage lighting is visible in the vault door, even as it opens.

When Felix and his partner are following Oddjob to the airport, thinking they are tracking Bond, palm trees are visible in "Kentucky".

When Bond is tracking Goldfinger's car in Switzerland, the map on his dashboard show's Goldfinger's blip moving north from Geneva along a lakeside road, yet the shots of the cars indicate a high mountain pass.

When Leiter contacts M on the green scrambler, the south portico of the White House is shown through a window behind him. There are no structures directly south of the White House to the Tidal Basin except for the Washington Monument.

When Bond is driving to the Auric Enterprises building (in Switzerland), he's seen driving on the left hand side of the road but he should be driving on the right hand side in Switzerland (as shown in the previous scene).

Multiple errors in the drive supposedly to take the gangster to the airport. Leiters radar screen shows the Lincoln turning onto St. Andrews Church Rd. from Dixie Highway which was a 2 lane rural road, not the 6 lane commercial highway shown during driving scenes. A sign displays "International Airport" on an overpass, which the actual road was nowhere near any airport. Standiford Field, where they were presumably heading, did not become an international airport for another 25 years. Leiter drives past Opa Locka Blvd. and a Royal Castle hamburger place (a deep South restaurant not in Kentucky) and the scene ends with the Lincoln crushed at "Atlantic Metal". All are obvious Florida references nowhere near Kentucky.

If Bond's car has a bullet-proof rear window, as Q explains, there would be no need for a bullet-proof rear sliding panel.

After ejecting the guard, Bond tries to make his escape back out the front gate. However, he is thwarted by the old lady with the sub machine gun and ends up driving away and in the ensuing chase, crashes and is captured. Bond should have just keep driving out the gate since he knew his car and windows were bullet proof and he could have deployed his headlight machine guns to easily eliminate the lady.

Mr. Solo is driven away by Oddjob, who then shoots him before the car is crushed. Oddjob then has the remains loaded onto an open truck, which he drives back to the stud farm. Goldfinger then tells Bond that he has to arrange to separate Mr. Solo from his gold. Seeing as Solo had been shot, the simplest thing would have been to put him into another car for disposal, and return the original car. That way Solo's body would have been hidden and the gold could have been simply taken back out of the car without the need for a complicated separating process.

When Bond is fleeing with Tilly, he turns left at a fork in the road. Having driven the road and scouted the area during daylight, Bond knew that a cliff was in that direction. In short, he intentionally drove towards a dead end.

The lead henchman steps inside and presses a button on the wall to open the other large door. So it was entirely unnecessary to spend all the time laser-cutting the entire first door down and dragging it off with a truck when a small hole could have been cut just large enough to reach one arm in to press the button. And it wouldn't require a giant truck-mounted laser to cut through a relatively-thin roll-up door, anyway.

Bond squeezes the plastic explosive out of its packaging before laying it. This is unnecessary as it would have worked while still wrapped and as a professional spy he should have known this. Also it just increases the time that he might get caught and stopped.

The U.S. Army Brigadier General is addressed as "Brigadier"; U.S. Army, Air Force and Marine Corps officers of this rank are addressed as "General", since in the U.S. military it is a General officer's rank. "Brigadier" is strictly a British or Commonwealth form of address. It's understandable that Bond might make this mistake, but Leiter, an American, should know better.

When Bond disables Tilly's car, not only does he bust her tires, he also tears the side of her car to shreds. Yet Tilly makes no mention of this when she examines the damage, only remarking about her blown tires.

Speaking to Jill Masterson, Bond claims that the champagne should be drunk at 38 Fahrenheit, this is 3.3 Centigrade and barely above freezing. Most wine experts recommend 7 to 9 Celsius which is 43 to 48 Fahrenheit.

Goldfinger says in his briefing to the other criminals that Fort Knox contains the entire US gold depository. This is incorrect, though it does contain the most. For example, gold is additionally deposited at West Point Mint in New York State.