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L'espion qui venait du surgelé

Original title: Le spie vengono dal semifreddo
  • 1966
  • 1h 22m
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4.1/10
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L'espion qui venait du surgelé (1966)
Disgraced SIC agent teams up with a bumbling doormen to stop Dr. Goldfoot from using his bikini-clad robot girls to blow up high-ranking NATO generals, igniting a war between Russia and America.
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Disgraced SIC agent Bill Dexter teams up with bumbling doormen Franco and Ciccio to stop Dr. Goldfoot from using his bikini-clad robot girls to blow up high-ranking NATO generals.Disgraced SIC agent Bill Dexter teams up with bumbling doormen Franco and Ciccio to stop Dr. Goldfoot from using his bikini-clad robot girls to blow up high-ranking NATO generals.Disgraced SIC agent Bill Dexter teams up with bumbling doormen Franco and Ciccio to stop Dr. Goldfoot from using his bikini-clad robot girls to blow up high-ranking NATO generals.

  • Director
    • Mario Bava
  • Writers
    • Franco Castellano
    • Giuseppe Moccia
    • Franco Dal Cer
  • Stars
    • Vincent Price
    • Fabian
    • Franco Franchi
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    • Director
      • Mario Bava
    • Writers
      • Franco Castellano
      • Giuseppe Moccia
      • Franco Dal Cer
    • Stars
      • Vincent Price
      • Fabian
      • Franco Franchi
    • 31User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
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    Vincent Price
    Vincent Price
    • Dr. Goldfoot…
    Fabian
    Fabian
    • Bill Dexter
    Franco Franchi
    Franco Franchi
    • Franco
    Ciccio Ingrassia
    Ciccio Ingrassia
    • Ciccio
    Francesco Mulè
    • Colonel Doug Benson
    • (as Francesco Mulé)
    Laura Antonelli
    Laura Antonelli
    • Rosanna
    Ennio Antonelli
    • Goldfoot Henchman
    • (uncredited)
    Frankie Avalon
    Frankie Avalon
    • Craig Gamble
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Silvana Bacci
    • Robot
    • (uncredited)
    Mario Bava
    Mario Bava
    • Angel with Harp
    • (uncredited)
    Giulio Bottoni
    • Hotel Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Augusto Brenna
    • Officer
    • (uncredited)
    Rossana Canghiari
    • Robot
    • (uncredited)
    Angelo Casadei
    • Military Policeman
    • (uncredited)
    Tony Casale
    • Computer Technician
    • (uncredited)
    Franz Colangeli
    • General
    • (uncredited)
    Antonietta Fiorito
    • Robot
    • (uncredited)
    Gianfranco Funari
    • US Army Official
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Mario Bava
    • Writers
      • Franco Castellano
      • Giuseppe Moccia
      • Franco Dal Cer
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    Infofreak

    An awful sequel to an awful movie. Fans of Vincent Price and Mario Bava should avoid.

    The first Dr. Goldfoot movie seemed like a lot of fun in theory - a campy, spy spoof starring horror legend Vincent Price as a mad scientist with an army of beautiful female robots. Unfortunately, it doesn't live up to expectations. It's pretty awful, and REALLY unfunny. This sequel, believe it or not, is even worse. To add insult to injury it was directed by the (usually) brilliant Mario Bava, and released in the same year as his classic shocker 'Kill, Baby...Kill!' What went wrong exactly is hard to say but EVERYTHING about this movie stinks. Price really plays it for laughs but the script is rotten. Instead of Frankie Avalon, this time around it's Fabian. And most of the "comedy" is supplied by a couple of atrocious Italian comedians called Franco and Ciccio. Man, they are just SO bad, you won't believe it! The only thing that stopped me from switching this garbage off was perving at the gorgeous Laura Antonelli, who I had previously seen in Massimo Dallamano's 'Venus In Furs', which I highly recommend. 'Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs' is an all time low for Mario Bava, and the worst movie I've ever seen Vincent Price appear in. It's an awful sequel to an awful movie, and my advice is AVOID.
    3Uriah43

    An Italian Slapstick Comedy Lacking any Humor

    Although his car plunges over a cliff at the end of the previous movie, "Dr. Goldfoot" (Vincent Price) does not die. Instead he reappears in this sequel and begins using female robots with bombs attached to them to blow up NATO generals all over the world. His goal is to start a war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact so that he and his Chinese partners can take over the world. Fortunately, a disgraced agent for S.I.C. (Security Intelligence Command) by the name of "Bill Dexter" (Fabian) recognizes something sinister is afoot and with the help of a young woman named "Rosanna" (Laura Antonelli) sets out to investigate the matter. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that I didn't particularly care for this movie for a number of reasons. First of all, for a comedy it just wasn't that funny with the two bumbling Italian agents "Franco" (Franco Franchi) and "Ciccio" (Ciccio Ingrassia) being especially annoying. Likewise, the script was equally horrid as well. To make matters even worse, although this movie proudly boasted of having a number of sexy, young ladies in skimpy bikinis, only Moa Tahi (as "Hardjob") and the aforementioned Laura Antonelli were even remotely attractive. In short, this movie turned out to be a very poor sequel and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.
    BlackArt

    What were they thinking?

    This is the second Dr. Goldfoot movie. What can I say about this film? It is a second rate sequel. Instead of Frankie Avalon, they got Fabian. The film was shot in Italy with a couple of goofy Italian comics. This one was played more for laughs. (Not that they got them.) Vincent Price is the ONLY reason to see this film. He has alot of gleeful fun as the evil doctor.

    The final chase scene takes place in an Italian amusement park and is reminicent of an H.R. Puffinstuff episode. Lots of running around and unneccesary amusement park rides.

    Fans of Austin Powers and/or Vincent Price will want to see this. Everyone else might be warned to see better films.
    4k_t_t2001

    Two Movies – Half the Entertainment Value

    In the 1960's, during the heyday of the weekend matinée and drive in movie lots, the American movie market burned through film at a truly phenomenal pace. In earlier days, Hollywood had satisfied this need with B Movie quickies: one week wonders pumped out by the now all but dead studio system. Now, in order to satisfy the voracious hunger of the American cinema, film distributors, such as American International Pictures, tapped foreign markets, importing films from Europe and Asia, quickly providing them with an English language soundtrack of sometimes dubious quality and then swiftly firing them into movie houses to fill the ever popular Double Bills.

    In the process of converting these films into English, they were often re-scored and edited for content, to remove those dangerous seconds of celluloid that were deemed either too violent or too sexy for American audiences. While this process allowed the distributor to make slight alterations to a film, it remained, essentially, the same movie in the USA as it had been in its country of origin.

    Such is not the case with LE SPIE VENGONO DAL SEMIFREDDO and DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS.

    Both films begin with the military leaders of various nations being lured into an explosive, and fatal, kiss by the scantily clad charms of the insidious Dr. Goldfoot's robot girl bombs, and both films end with a climactic confrontation between the forces of good and evil aboard an airborne American jumbo bomber, but the events between produce two very different movies.

    DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS stars the popular singer and would-be actor Fabian as well intentioned but barely competent Bill Dexter, an agent of the Security Intelligence Command, or SIC. Though he has been suspended by SIC, Dexter is the only one who realizes the threat posed by Dr. Goldfoot. Assisted by Colonel Benson's gorgeous, but frigid, secretary, Rosanna, ( the anything but frigid Laura Antonelli ) Dexter bumbles his way through various clichéd perils to save NATO's leaders from being blown to bits.

    LE SPIE VENGONO DAL SEMIFREDDO stars the Italian comedy duo of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia as a pair of totally incompetent accidental spies, who, following information from American agent Bill Dexter, manage to track the villainous Dr. Goldfoot to his lair, and then get trapped there by him. Dexter arrives on the scene to rescue the bumbling duo, just in time for the climactic chase and final showdown aboard the bomber.

    What both versions share is that neither will ever be mistaken for a great movie comedy. The scripts are weak, the jokes poor and Fabian is attractive, but bland. Then there are Franco and Ciccio. There are no shortage of great Italian directors, singers, actors and composers, but somehow the list of great Italian film comedians is much, much shorter. I suspect that Franco and Ciccio are indicative of the reason why. An even less appealing team than Marty Allen and Steve Rossi in LAST OF THE SECRET AGENTS, it is truly frightening to reflect on this duo of barely talented "comedians" being so popular as to star in over one hundred motion pictures.

    Surprisingly, then, it is LE SPIE VENGONO DAL SEMIFREDDO that is the better of the two movies. Without a doubt the best thing about either film is Vincent Price, and his Dr. Goldfoot character is better treated, though barely so, in the Italian release. Because of the increased screen time given to Franco and Ciccio, the Dexter character is presented in a more straightforward manner in his reduced role and comes off the better for it. Lastly, several of the American version's most preposterously bad moments, such as the very poorly done demise of Rosanna's robot double, are wisely not in the Italian cut of the film. The substituted Franco and Ciccio scenes are merely silly, rather than painfully embarrassing.

    In watching either version, it is difficult to believe that the director was the great Mario Bava. On the other hand it is, sadly, very easy to believe reports that Bava undertook the job simply to fulfill contractual obligations, and had no great personal investment in the final project. Bava's innovative use of visuals, his mastery of colour and composition, were usually able to overcome the poorer scripts he sometimes had to work with. However LE SPIE VENGONO DAL SEMIFREDDO displays none of Mario Bava's usual flare, and frankly could have been directed by anyone.

    The basic concept of LE SPIE VENGONO DAL SEMIFREDDO / DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS is an intriguing one; filled with potential. In the hands of talents like Vincent Price and Mario Bava the result should have been a first rate black comedy. Unfortunately the combination of too many other factors, both behind and in front of the camera, diminished the final result into films which are little more than interesting curiosities.

    For fans of Mario Bava, Vincent Price or simply for the curious, both films have been made available on home video. DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS was released in a fair pan and scan VHS edition in 1995 as part of MGM's Vincent Price Collection. It is now out of print. LE SPIE VENGONO DAL SEMIFREDDO was recently released by IIF on DVD in a very nice 1.85:1 widescreen edition.
    5masercot

    Starring Vincent Price and a Cast of Idiots

    I've always said that I'd watch Vincent Price read a phone book. I should emend that statement after watching this movie: I'd watch Vincent Price read a phone book IF he was nowhere near a pair of Italian idiots...

    I saw Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, so I knew what to expect; but, any camp enjoyment one could derive from this film was nullified by the idiot doormen/spies who mug their way through every scene like a horrible Jim Carey.

    Price plays the role light and talks to the camera through some of the movie. He seems like he's having fun. Fabian's talents might better be used in another movie. His performance made Frankie Avalon look like Lawrence Olivier.

    The girls are pretty, fleshy Italian types. There's a lot of them. They explode.

    This movie should be seen if you've seen every other movie ever made and you want closure...

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    • Trivia
      This movie was originally intended to be a sequel to Goldginger (aka Due mafiosi contro Goldginger (1965)), Italian comedians Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia's Goldfinger (1964) spoof. When American International Pictures came on board as a co-financier, it was decided to shoot one movie but make two identifiably different films; one each for the Italian and English speaking markets. The Italian film was to be a vehicle for the two Italian comedians and the English version a Dr. Goldfoot sequel, thus achieving two commercial goals of two different national investors. As such, this film was edited into two completely different movies.
    • Goofs
      The opening of this film describes the plot as another attempt by Dr. Goldfoot to conquer the world. But in the previous film, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965), Dr. Goldfoot was using his bikini-clad robots only to romance rich men and bilk them out of their fortunes, not to conquer the world. It could be that the scam was ultimately intended to finance world domination.
    • Quotes

      Bill Dexter: That's not Rosanna. That's a jigsaw puzzle.

    • Connections
      Edited into Come inguaiammo il cinema italiano - La vera storia di Franco e Ciccio (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      Bang Bang Kissene
      Written by Ebe De Paulis, Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia

      Sung by Franco Franchi

      Recorded on Ester Records

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    • Release date
      • July 29, 1966 (Italy)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Languages
      • Italian
      • English
    • Also known as
      • L'espion qui venait du surgele
    • Filming locations
      • Roma, Lazio, Italy
    • Production company
      • Italian International Film
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      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby

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