Auric Goldfinger and film, Goldfinger is aided in his crimes by his manservant, Oddjob, a mute, monstrously strong Korean who ruthlessly eliminates any threat to his employer's affairs. Goldfinger is the owner of "Enterprises Auric A.G." in Switzerland, maker of metal furniture, which is purchased by many airlines including Air India. Twice a year, Goldfinger drives his vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost car from England to Enterprises Auric. Bond learns that Goldfinger makes dead drops of gold bars for SMERSH along the way, and that his car's bodywork is 18 carat (75%), solid white gold under the ploy that the added weight is
Goldfinger (film) Illustrated London News", thought "Goldfinger" "even tenser, louder, wittier, more ingenious and more impossible than "From Russia with Love"... [a] brilliant farrago", adding that Connery "is ineffable". Philip Oakes of "The Sunday Telegraph" said that the film was "dazzling in its technical ingenuity", while "Time" said that "this picture is a thriller exuberantly travestied." Bosley Crowther, writing in "The New York Times" was less enthusiastic about the film, saying that it was "tediously apparent" that Bond was becoming increasingly reliant on gadgets with less emphasis on "the lush temptations of voluptuous females", although he did admit that "Connery plays the