The Ultimate Goldfoot Choice
This double-bill of both AIP's Dr. Goldfoot series, "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" and the DVD premiere in Reg. 1 of "Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs", it's somewhat controversial sequel is a pleasant way to get both films in one's collection. AIP got Vincent Price to appear in both films, "Bikini Machine" becoming the first production by AIP that had a million dollar budget. Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman and Susan Hart also star and directed by veteran Norman Taurog (considered "the star's director" having directed 10 Elvis vehicles in his career, and which included an Oscar win for directing Jackie Cooper in "Skippy" in 1931 among many others). Many of the successful plot mechanics of "Bikini Machine" were recruited to be included in the sequel "Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs", but what happened was the producers decided to take advantage of tax write-off by having the production foreign made and it was considered a coup that famed horror director Mario Bava agreed to...
Dr. Goldfoot.
Vincent Price stars in this campy funny science fiction movie. Just love the character he portrays as a Mad scientist who creates his girl bikini robots. His plan is to rob all the riches from the wealthy with his bikini robots. Then two bumbling heroes try to stop goldfoot.
The Second movie he comes back with his robots but as girl bombs. He gets involved 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. Goldfoot attempting to start World War 3 between Russia and the United States by dropping a nuclear bomb on Moscow. But then there is a girl chasing agent that plans to stop him
Love this movie and that fact that it is two movies, I have been looking for this two movies and found it in one dvd. Or course what can I say I love Vincent Price. :-)
Gloriously Idiotic!
These two movies are the apex of American International's gloriously idiotic series of widescreen, technicolor teen comedies of the Sixties that began with the Beach Party movies earlier in the decade. Maybe not the apex of quality, but certainly an apex of throwaway idiocy! These are lots of fun.
I'm very happy to see that MGM saw fit to throw this double bill away on a TGG bargain bin release instead of going the much, MUCH more expensive Made-to-Order "Archives" route that is currently the only way to see many of their newly released reissues of cult classic films. I suspect that this double bill had been prepared for MGM's Midnight Movies Double Feature series, but was shelved when MGM fell apart a couple of years ago.
Two gloriously colorful and idiotic Vincent Price COMEDIES for under ten bucks? Buy a copy now!
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