Location #1: Court
Fontainebleau Miami Beach, 4441 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Location #2: Bond reports
Big Ben, London, England, United Kingdom
Location #3: Golf match
Stoke Poges Golf Club, Professional Shop/Park Road, Slough, England, United Kingdom
Location #4: Driving past..
The Belvedere Hotel on Furkastrasse, Oberwald, Switzerland
Location #5: ..then past a small village
Which is Realp, Switzerland
While Bond’s Aston-Martin is following Goldfinger’s Rolls Royce and still in Britain, an interesting scene takes place at Southend Airport in Southend, Essex, UK. The Rolls is loaded aboard an unusual aircraft operated by British United Airferries which kind of looks like a piston-drive miniature 747 with the bulbous nose. This plane was very unusual and only about 20 were ever built. It is a converted DC-4 known as a “Carvair” and was briefly used for cross-channel services. Southend Airport is now called London Southend Airport in an attempt to attract more business.
Credit at the end of the film: technical advisor…Charles russhon.. was a personal friend of Cubby Broccoli, and the military commander of 1st armored division, stationed at fort Knox.
Check out some recent driving scenes along the Goldfinger locations on Furka pass, Switzerland: https://youtu.be/9vRAS0qTsPY “OMG! My Porsche got in the middle of the Goldfinger Car Chase!”
Hi Bond fans. from New Jersey USA. The Special edition dvd commentary says that scenes of the hotel pool, with Bond meeting CIA Agent Felix Leiter, Bond with girl ” Dink ” , Bond in Goldfinger’s suite and meeting Jill Masterson, and breaking up Goldfinger’s crooked card game, were mostly done with back projection plates and screens of the Fountainbleu at Pinewood Studios; as actors Cec Linder and Gert Frobe were not available for filiming in Florida. Thanx
I have been a Goldfinger enthusiast since the movie came out in the 60’s. Mostly interested in the scenes that were SUPPOSEDLY filmed in Kentucky, USA, but looked suspiciously like FLORIDA…note the palm trees as the two agents sent to keep track of Bond follow the tracking device, and the ODDJOB scene murdering the mob boss SOLO. Too Floridian looking to be Kentucky. The gravel on the side of the interstate and highways looks a lot like Florida sand. Were ALL of the background scenes for the agents tailing Bond actually filmed in Kentucky OR, conveniently filmed in and around MIAMI. Today’s Fontainblue hotel is but a shadow of it’s former self, but just as expensive. The background scene as ODDJOB drove past the entrance to the Kentucky airport looked like the old Miami airport entrance to me. Just saying….anyone know for sure?
There is a quick moment when you can see a street sign that says ‘OPA LOCKA BLVD’ which is in Miami. The prominent background of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant is supposed to easily convince the audience of Kentucky.