Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Mario Bava
Produced by Louis M. Heyward
Fulvio Lucisano
Written by Louis M. Heyward
Robert Kaufman
Pipolo
Starring Vincent Price
Fabian
Franco Franchi
Ciccio Ingrassia
Laura Antonelli
Music by Les Baxter
Cinematography Antonio Rinaldi
Distributed by American International Pictures
Release date(s) Italy July 29, 1966
US 9 November 1966
Country Italy
United States

Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs is a 1966 Italian spy-spoof film directed by Mario Bava and starring Vincent Price, Fabian, Francesco Mulé, Laura Antonelli and the Italian comedy team of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia.

The film was shot in Italy by cinematographer Antonio Rinaldi and the Italian version is reported to be quite different than the English-language edition, with more screen time spent on the antics of Franco and Ciccio and less on Vincent Price and the other American cast. The Italian title of the tilm is Spie vengono dal semifreddo (Literally, "The Spies Who Came In From the Frozen Custard"). The Italian title was a pun on The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and the name of a thick Italian ice cream dessert, semifreddo (literally semicold).

The "Dr. Goldfoot" of the English version is clearly a take off of James Bond's foe Goldfinger; 1964 film version was highly successful and still fresh in the public consciousness at the time the previous film in the series, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine was made.

Synopsis

Price plays the titular mad scientist who is working with the Chinese government to use exploding female robots to disrupt a scheduled NATO war-game by blowing up the various generals involved in the exercise (one of whom looks exactly like Goldfoot, and whom Goldfoot later impersonates). Fabian is the hero who works to thwart the plot, when he isn't busy chasing women such as Laura Antonelli's character. The film ends with an extended frantic chase through the streets of Rome, and Goldfoot attempting to start World War 3 between Russia and the United States by dropping a nuclear bomb on Moscow.

Production

This sequel was an attempt to fully capitalize on Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, which had been a minor success in America and a major financial success in Italy. In order to further exploit the "Goldfoot" name in Italy, the producers shot the film in Italy, hired an Italian director, Mario Bava, and cast popular Italian stars Franco and Ciccio in major roles. (AIP later released several dubbed Franco & Ciccio films in America, but the duo never found a Stateside audience.) The resulting Girl Bombs sequel was not particularly successful, however, and is considered by many critics to be director Bava's worst movie, yet it was his commercially most successful movie in Italy. Vincent Price's Goldfoot is the only character who appears in both movies.

In Britain this film was released as "Dr. G. and the Girl Bombs" following legal action against the distributors of the first film by a London-based Doctor Goldfoot.

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