Am I Missing Something?

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Taking Disney style comedy and adding an adult twist to it, American International purposely went way over the top and succeeded. Deliberate humor often lands like a cow patty in a pasture, but here, the patty is filled with gold nuggets. Escaping from doomed barons and vicious monsters, Vincent Price is having a gay old time as an effete mad scientist who creates beautiful robots to seduce and marry vulnerable rich men in hopes of getting his hands on their estates. With an idiotic assistant named Igor, Price continues to bungle each scheme thanks to the interference of the love struck Frankie Avalon who falls in love with bikini clad #11 (Susan Hart), set up by the complete dunce Igor (Jack Mullaney) who makes Gilligan seem like the professor.This greatly uses the streets of San Francisco for location shooting, starting off the film on Lombard Street and ending up in Dr. Goldfoot's lair returning to the streets for a wacky chase similar to those in "What's Up, Doc?" and "Foul Play". Avalon works for his eccentric uncle (Fred Clark) who keeps falling prey to Avalon's clumsiness. Avalon joins forces with Dwayne Hickman who made the unfortunate decision to marry the lovely but unloving Hart.Often, deliberate camp does not come off well, especially when the actor's tongues are so far in their cheek that they could drill oil. But everybody seems to be having so much fun that it becomes generally hard not to root them on, especially when Price returns to the pit and the pendulum. While this gets a rather high rating from me, I could hardly call this award worthy, but I could have gobbled down two large popcorns with this at the drive-in and drink a super large coke and never want to leave my car to go to the restroom or take a break on the outdoor slides. A fun title song sung by the Supremes (unseen) helps get the show started.

Mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (a gloriously hammy Vincent Price) plots to take over the world by employing life-like female robots to seduce rich and powerful men for their money. It's up to blundering government agent Craig Gamble (amiable Frankie Avalon) and dashing playboy Todd Armstrong (the equally likable Dwayne Hickman) to stop Goldfoot. Director Norman Taurog, working from a blithely inane script by Elwood Ullman and Robert Kaufman, relates the enjoyably daffy story at a zippy pace, maintains an engaging lightweight tone throughout, and pitches the pleasantly lowbrow sense of zany humor at a delightfully broad level. Moreover, it's acted with zest by a game cast: The luscious Susan Hart is simply adorable as fetching fembot Diane, Jack Mullaney suffers plenty of sidesplitting indignities as Goldfoot's bumbling assistant Igor, and Fred Clark growls and grumbles with lip-smacking brio as the cranky Donald J. Pevney. This movie further benefits from a bevy of beautiful women as the sexy robots: Sue Hamilton, Mary Hughes, Patti Chandler, Salli Sachse, China Lee, Deanna Lund, and Marianne Gaba among 'em. Annette Funicello and Harvey Lembeck pop up in amusing cameos. The witty nods to Price's previous AIP films ranks as an especially sweet and affectionate touch. Sam Leavitt's vibrant color cinematography makes neat use of wipes. Les Baxter's bouncy soundtrack keeps things bubbling along. Good dippy fun.

Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has devised a plan that's either genius or completely stupid. He has an army of robot women, beautiful as can be, that he will send off to marry rich men and have the men sign over their fortunes. Soon, if all works out, Goldfoot will be the richest man alive! Let it be said that to enjoy this film, you need to like camp, 1960s sensibilities (go go dancing for no reason) and Vincent Price. If you like those things, this will be a treat for you. Made around the same time as his Corman-directed Poe stories (and for the same production company) here Price gets to be a little bit sillier...Although Price does a great job, and Frankie Avalon plays a good spy, the real credit should go to Susan Hart, who played Robot #11 (Diane). She wasn't just beautiful, but acted professionally and comically and delivered her lines as if she meant them (which may have been hard to do). None of the other robots get as much screen time ,and that's alright: Hart really has the performance nailed.I think this film has somewhat disappeared. Not being technically "horror", Price fans may overlook it. And they may be the key audience -- the spoof of the spy genre is evident, but there are better spy spoofs to be had. Having spawned two sequels (one directed by Mario Bava), this film has an important place in film history. I loved it and I suspect you will, too.

It is beyond doubt that Nroman Taurog's "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" of 1965 is about as dumb as it gets, but funny dumb that is. The great Vincent Price stars as the eponymous villain in this absurd comedy brought to screen by American International Pictures, a film promising nothing more or less than 88 minutes of wonderfully stupid fun. And it is, of course, none other than Vincent Price, as far as I am considered one of the greatest actors of all-time, who gives this film its cult-status.The mad Dr. Goldfoot (Price) plans to obtain the world's riches with the help of an army of babes in golden bikinis. These sexy women in bikinis, who are actually robots brought to life by Goldfoot and his moronic assistant Igor, are programmed to seduce rich men and hand their stocks over to their master. After they have both fallen for sexy fem-bot Diane (Susan Hart), millionaire Todd Armstrong (Dwayne Hickman) and secret agent Craig Gamble (Frankie Avalon) decide to put a stop to Goldfoot's game...Vincent Price is, as always, great in his role, and basically the only good reason to watch this film. Sexy Susan Hart fits well in her role of the seductive robot-girl Diane, and so do the other robot-girls provide more eye-candy. Dwayne Hickman and Frankie Avalon deliver plain dreadful performances, even for a super-silly comedy like this. Then again, they were certainly instructed to act exaggeratedly stupid. The funky theme-song by The Supremes gives the film some more cult-value. The film itself will never make the viewers laugh themselves to death, but it is able to constantly put a smirk on one's face. The producers obviously thought it would be a good idea to spoof brilliant AIP-produced Vincent Price classics, such as "House Of Usher" (1960) and "The Pit And The Pendulum" (1961). For the pendulum sequence towards the end, they actually shamelessly used several sequences from "Pit And The Pendulum". The film keeps getting dumber and dumber, but it always stays fun. Only the overlong chase in the end (about 10 minutes) is almost inendurable. As mentioned above, this is about as dumb as it gets, but it is nevertheless (or should I say therefore) great fun to watch. Vincent Price fans shouldn't miss it.