Goldfinger had a very dangerous laser beam

The 1964 movie - which was directed by Guy Hamilton and starred Shirley Eaton, Honor Blackman, Gert Frobe and Harold Sakata alongside Sean Connery - included a memorable scene in which Bond is bolted down to a table as a cutting laser moves towards his torso.

But were you were aware that the laser was real and very dangerous?

Effects technician Albert J. Luxford revealed in his book ‘Gimmick Man: Memoir of a Special Effects Maestro’: "It was an extremely dangerous thing insofar as it having 400 to 500 volts going through the coil ... If you touched it, you'd have been dead. It wasn't a toy. If you'd gone within a foot of it when it was on, you'd have had arcs too — giving a very nasty shock, to say the least."