Cec Linder

Goldfinger -- From its shocking prologue to an exhilarating mid-air climax, this lightning-paced 007 thriller features Sean Connery battling cunning international smugglers intent on infiltrating Fort Knox.

Lolita -- Stanley Kubrick directs this dark, comedic adaptation about a university professor who becomes so infatuated with a 14 year-old girl, he marries her mother in order to stay close to her.

In this 14-karat adventure and the third film in the 007 series, James Bond is pitted against one of his most memorable villains, the power-hungry and infamous international gold smuggler Auric Goldfinger. Goldfinger is not planning to rob Fort Knox; he intends to detonate a nuclear device in the fortress and contaminate the world's gold supply with radiation, making it unusable for hundreds of years...and incresaing by tenfold the value of his own gold holdings, making him the richest, most powerful man on earth.

The people and the story are magnetic; the background is the city of dreams that almost came true. Atlantic City is revitalized as a resort when gambling is legalized. But the new industry also brings unsettling changes. For Lou (Burt Lancaster), 40 years and bodyguard-boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace (Kate Reid), his numbers-running sideline escalates to mob involvement. A drug-related slaying leaves him with a small fortune, a new car and a new girl, Sally (Susan Sarandon), who is the perfect completion of his fantasy.