Goldfinger (1964)

Bernard Lee: 'M'

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Quotes 

• James Bond : What do you know about gold, Moneypenny?

  Miss Moneypenny : Oh, the only gold I know about is the kind you wear... you know, on the third finger of your left hand?

  James Bond : Hmm, one of these days we really must look into that.

  Miss Moneypenny : What about tonight? You'll come over for dinner...

  [playfully tosses Bond's hat onto the hat rack] 

  Miss Moneypenny : and I'll cook you a wonderful angel cake.

  James Bond : Well, nothing would give me greater pleasure, but unfortunately I do have a... business appointment.

  Miss Moneypenny : That's the flimsiest excuse you've ever given me. Oh, well, some girls have all the luck. Who is she, James?

  M : [over intercom]  "She" is me, Miss Moneypenny. And kindly omit the customary byplay with 007. He's dining with me and I don't want him to be late.

  Miss Moneypenny : [to Bond]  So there's hope for me yet.

  James Bond : [gives Moneypenny a playful peck on the cheek]  Moneypenny, won't you ever believe me?

• Colonel Smithers : Have a little more of this rather disappointing brandy.

  M : What's the matter with it?

  James Bond : I'd say it was a 30-year-old fine, indifferently blended, sir... with an overdose of bon-bois.

  M : Colonel Smithers is giving the lecture, 007.

• M : Gold? All over?

  James Bond : She died of skin suffocation. It's been known to happen to cabaret dancers. It's all right as long as you leave a small bare patch at the base of the spine to allow the skin to breathe.

  M : Someone obviously didn't.

  James Bond : And I know who.

  M : This isn't a personal vendetta, 007. It's an assignment, like any other. And if you can't treat it as such, coldly and objectively, 008 can replace you.

  M : You've hardly distinguished yourself, have you? You were supposed to observe Mr. Goldfinger, not borrow his girlfriend. Instead of that, Goldfinger goes off to Europe, and it's only by the grace of God, your friend Leiter, and my intervention with the British Embassy in Washington, that you're not in the custody of the Miami Beach Police!

  James Bond : [frustrated]  Sir... I am aware of my shortcomings... and I am prepared to continue this assignment in the spirit you suggest... if I knew what it was about!

  [catches himself, then more calmly] 

  James Bond : ... sir.

  M : What do you know about gold? Not paint, bullion.

  James Bond : I know it when I see it.

  M : Meet me tonight at seven. Black tie.

• Colonel Smithers : [Referring to the gold bar on the dining room table]  Mr. Bond can make whatever use of it he deems necessary... provided he returns it, of course. It's worth five thousand pounds.

  [Bond reaches for the bar, but M stops him short] 

  M : You'll draw it from Q Branch... with the rest of your equipment... in the morning.

  James Bond : Of course, sir.

• Colonel Smithers : Gentlemen, Mr. Goldfiinger has gold bullion on deposit in Zurich, Amsterdam, Caracas, Hong Kong... worth 20 million pounds. Most of it came from this country.

  James Bond : Why move it?

  Colonel Smithers : Because the price of gold varies from country to country. If you buy it here at 30 dollars an ounce, you can sell it in, say, Pakistan for 110 dollars and triple your money... provided, of course, you have the facilities for melting it down.

  James Bond : And has he?

  Colonel Smithers : Apart from being a legitimate international bullion dealer, Mr. Goldfinger poses... no, that's not quite fair... *is*, among his many other pursuits, a legitimate international jeweler. He's legally entitled to operate modest metallurgical installations. His British one is down in Kent. We have yet to discover how he transfers his gold out of the coutry... Lord knows we've tried.

  [to M] 

  Colonel Smithers : If your department can establish that it is being done illegally, the bank can institute proceedings to recover the bulk of his holdings.

  James Bond : I think it's time Mr. Goldfinger and I met... socially, of course.

  Colonel Smithers : I was hoping you'd say that.

  M : It might lead to a business talk... Mr. Goldfinger's kind of business.

• Felix Leiter : It's about 007, sir. We picked up his homer signal. Its monitored into Friendship Airport, Baltimore, where he's just landed.

  M : Baltimore? Oh, nice of him to let us know - last we heard he was in Switzerland.

• Felix Leiter : Their flight plan gives Bluegrass Field, Kentucky as their final destination.

  M : Don't charge in and spoil anything, will you? He's evidently well on top at the moment.

  [Next scene shows a sign for "Pussy Galore's Flying Circus"]