Having been rescued from the underwater cave, Bond joins Leiter on a hovercraft and they team up with the aquaparas for the final battle as S.P.E.C.T.R.E. In at least two shots in the scene where Number One accuses his underlings of embezzlement, the unnatural eye movements and blinking motions of the actors reveal that the film is actually being run backwards. A special 25th anniversary screening of this movie was held at the National Film Theatre in London in 1990, and was attended by director Satellite Airborne Recovery Project). The gun-barrel sequence that opens this movie marks not only the first time the actor portraying Bond performed the scene, but is also the first instance in the film franchise where the dot opens up to reveal the first scene in the story.

He was responsible for the staging of the cave sequence and the battle scenes beneath the Disco Volante and called in his specialist team of divers who posed as those engaged in the onslaught. Bond spills the run over the back of the front seat and ignites it. It was the only one produced for the movie and the only Breitling watch ever used in a James Bond movie.

It is an evolution of the Calypso-Phot, originally built for According to the CD soundtrack sleeve notes, the title song debuted on the U.S. charts on December 11, 1965, and peaked at the number twenty-five spot. Due to the dangers on the set, stuntman The climactic underwater battle was shot at Clifton Pier and was choreographed by Hollywood expert Ricou Browning, who had worked on many films previously such as Creature From the Black Lagoon in 1954. Cuneo was a friend of
Second movie in which Bond drives his Aston Martin DB5. In November 2013 the McClory estate finally reached a settlement with MGM and EON productions, transferring all rights to Sean Connery, who already had a contract to do a certain number of Bond films, returned to the role of James Bond; however, he had started to have reservations about the role and the future of the James Bond film franchise. On the U.K. charts, it entered on January 13, 1966, where it peaked at number thirty-five.

At the beginning of the movie, when James Bond is talking to the French woman on the balcony outside the church, he says, "As I said, later," and then, "Come on." When Bond and Domino meet underwater and disappear behind a rock, the scene was originally supposed to show Domino's bikini float out from behind the rock. The first line of the novel read: "It was one of those days when it seemed to James Bond that all life, as someone put it, was nothing but a heap of six to four against."


Lamont replied “as long as you can hold your breath.” When the engineer countered that Bond was underwater for several minutes onscreen, Lamont replied it was “the skill of the editor.” The engineer eventually hung up.The scenes involving villain Emilio Largo’s shark-filled pool proved difficult for a number of reasons. The Professor tells Bond and Domino that the Disco Volante is about to run into the reef, but does so without turning round to look! There are no violins to be seen in the orchestra.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” (which is why there’s a location called the “Kiss Kiss Club” in the film), and asked “Goldfinger” vocalist Shirley Bassey to sing it.