Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) on Netflix
Approved19651h 28mComedySci-Fi
Dr. Goldfoot builds bikini-clad robots that charm rich men into signing over their fortunes. Sent after millionaire Todd Armstrong, the robot Diane targets secret agent Craig Gamble instead.
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Plot summary
Dr. Goldfoot is a mad scientist who has built a machine that turns out beautiful female robots dressed in gold bikinis. He calls it the bikini machine. Each robot is programmed to track down a wealthy man and charm him into signing over his fortune, and the doctor's inept assistant Igor bungles the assignments he is given. For the next job, Goldfoot sends robot number 11, Diane, after millionaire Todd Armstrong. Diane instead sets her sights on Craig Gamble, a field agent of Secret Intelligence Command. The mix-up brings Gamble and Armstrong together, and both set out to stop Goldfoot's plan for world domination.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Annette Funicello makes a brief cameo as a girl locked in medieval stocks in Dr. Goldfoot's lair; pregnant with her first child at the time, she was placed in the stocks to hide her stomach.
- Vincent Price said in a 1987 interview with David Del Valle that the original script was a camp musical, but AIP 'cut out all of the music! They got scared of it,' adding that it could have been almost like Little Shop of Horrors.
- According to Susan Hart, a scene of Vincent Price singing about the bikini machine was cut because Sam Arkoff thought Price looked too fey; Hart called it one of the best scenes she had seen on film.
- During a Los Angeles heatwave that pushed one sound stage over 100 F, an electrician on the crew passed out from the heat and fell to his death from a catwalk as the company returned from lunch on August 15, 1965.
- Filming started on 4 August 1965 with one of AIP's largest-ever budgets, and it was the first AIP movie to cost over a million dollars.
- When designing Goldfoot's lair, Daniel Haller re-used some of his designs from 1961's The Pit and the Pendulum, and stock footage of battleships from another AIP release, Godzilla vs. The Thing, appears during the climax.
