"Goldfinger": The Midas Touch Meets the Oval Office

Goldfinger (1964)

Remake potential: Make the villain an American president with an insatiable appetite for wealth and power.

• Country: United Kingdom

• Genre: Spy thriller

• Director: Guy Hamilton

• Starring: Sean Connery

Still from Goldfinger (1964). Courtesy of Eon Productions / United Artists.

Clinical Overview

British secret agent James Bond tries to stop Auric Goldfinger from contaminating the United States' Fort Knox gold reserves.

Diagnosis

Goldfinger kills a woman by covering her body with gold paint, but not all his victims meet such imaginative ends.

Prescription

Make Goldfinger a U.S. president. His Midas touch transforms the White House into a gaudy gold monument to greed. Anyone who crosses him is found dead, naked, and gold. Bond suspects him but finds no support from British intelligence. He discovers that the British government is secretly financed by America. Will Bond accept a bond as a bribe to keep quiet?