Spie vengono dal semifreddo [1966]

Country of Origin: Italy / USA
Year of Production:
Running Times: 85 mins [USA]     100 mins [Italy]
Length: 2,683 metres
Format: Technicolor     35mm     Panavision [anamorphic]
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Italian International Film / AIP
US Version Executive Producers: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff
Producers: Fulvio Lucisano
US Version Producers: Fulvio Lucisano, Louis M. Heyward
Production Supervisor: Antonio Raffa
Unit Manager: Lucio Zarini

SCRIPT
Script: Castellano (real name: Franco Castellano), Pipolo (real name: Giuseppe Moccia)
Idea: Fulvio Lucisano
Dialogue Collaborator: Franco Dal Cer
US Version Script: Louis M. Heyward, Robert Kaufman
Story: James Hartford (real name James H. Nicholson)

DIRECTION
Director: Mario Bava
Assistant Directors: Antonietta Fiorito, Lamberto Bava

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Antonio Rinaldi
Camera Operator: Saverio Diamante
1st Assistant Camera: Giorgio Aureli
2nd Assistant Camera: Salvatore Caruso
Lab: Technicolor

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Federico Muller
US Version Editor: Ronald Sinclair

MUSIC
Music: Lallo Gori (real name: Coriolano Gori)
Song: De Paulis, Castellano (real name: Franco Castellano), Pipolo (real name: Giuseppe Moccia) [Bang bang Kissene]
Song Performed By: Franco Franchi [Bang bang Kissene]
US Version Music: Les Baxter
US Version Song: Guy Hemric, Jerry Styner [Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs]
US Version Song Performed By: The Sloopys [Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs]
Music Publishers: Nazionalmusic (Milan)

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Ludovico Scardella
Synchronization: Fono Roma s.p.A. with the participation of CID
US Version Sound: Ryder Sound Services Inc
US Version Sound Effects: Edit-Rite Inc

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Ugo Pericoli

VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles: Biamonte e Grisanti
US Version Titles: Westheimer Co

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Gastone Carsetti

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Rosalba Scaria
Production Secretary: Maurizio Marvisi
Production Assistants: Antonietta Fiorito, Lamberto Bava

LOCATIONS
Locations: Luna Park, Rome, Lazio, Italy; Egypt
Studio: Cinecittà Film Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy

CAST
Vincent Price [General Willis / Dr Goldfoot]
Fabian [Bill Dexter]
Franco Franchi [Franco]
Ciccio Ingrassia [Ciccio]
Francesco Mulé [Colonel Doug Benson]
Laura Antonelli [Rosanna]
George Wang [Wang Kuo (uncredited)]
Mao Tahi [Hardjob (uncredited)]
Ennio Antonelli [Goldfoor henchman in bathroom (uncredited)]
Mario Bava [furious man at fairground (uncredited)]

SUMMARY

Doctor Goldfoot decides to send his female robots out to marry and murder the world's wealthiest men, leaving him to claim their loot and making him unbelievably wealthy.

CAPSULE REVIEW

A very rare misfire from Bava, this dreadful comedy is an unnecessary sequel to a film that really wasn't that great to begin with. Price does his best with a lousy script but Bava seems to have given up on the project before he even began. Irredeemably awful.

AVAILABILITY

Italy
Theatrical Distributors: Italian International Film

USA
Theatrical Distributors: AIP

TIMELINE

1966
March
24: Italy – filming begins

April
5: Italy – filming ends

1966
July
29: Italy – theatrical release

November
9: USA – theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

Don't Touch!..These are Booby Bombs [Booby traps with curves]

Meet the girls with the Thermo-Nuclear Navels!

... the MOST Titillating TIME-BOMBS you were EVER TEMPTED to TRIGGER!

...That cruel, evil grasping Dr Goldfoot is back with a brand-new, hysterical harem of honeys, and he's heck-bent to hurl the world into a howling holocaust of hilarity.

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Bonecas Explosivas - Brazilian title
Il clan dei due Mafiosi - re-release title
Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs – UK / US title
Dr Goldfoot and the Love Bomb - shooting title
Dr Goldfoot and the 'S' Bombs
Dr Goldfoot and the Sex Bombs
I due mafiosi dell'FBI - shooting title
L'espion qui venait du surgelé - French title

LINKS

SEQUEL TO
Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine [1965]

SEE ALSO
The Wild Weird World of Dr Goldfoot [1965]

REFERENCES

BOOKS

The Haunted World of Mario Bava by Troy Howarth pp.154-161; 339-340 [Godalming: FAB Press (2002)  ISBN: 1 903254 09 4
illustrated synopsis, production notes, review; credits

KEYWORDS

mad scientists, robots, sequels

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007