As one of popular culture's most charming and enduring characters James Bond needs no
introduction. Neither does Goldfinger (1964) perhaps the classic Bond film and undoubtedly the
beginning of 1960s Bondmania. Incorporating much unpublished material including photographs and
the original typed screenplay The Goldfinger Files is an illustrated history of the film's
iconic scenes shot in Switzerland's Urseren Valley crowned by the car chase with Bond's
gadget-laden Aston Martin. To maximize publicity for the film its makers took the unorthodox
step of inviting journalists and photographers onto the set resulting in a wealth of photos
including those by Hans Gerber Josef Ritler and Erich Kocian. These give us an insider's view
of the famous sequence-Goldfinger's Rolls-Royce on the dusty mountain road Tilly Masterton's
failed assassination attempt on him the chase between her Mustang and Bond's Aston Martin and
finally Goldfinger's smelting factory. Dozens of private pictures revealing candid
behind-the-scenes moments complete this documentary flipbook of golden-age James Bond culture.
