Here's the deal, Bruce Springsteen is NOT one of the 100 best guitar players of all time, Jennifer(Clutch Cargo chin)Aniston can't hold a candle to women like Linda Darnell and Allison Hayes in the hotness department, and "Dr Goldfarb and the Bikini Machine" should probably be a candidate for worst movie of all time just for the sheer amount of talent that was wasted on it! Per capita, it's worse than "Manos," and the saddest part is, I'm NOT kidding!
Wait a minute!! It's all starting to make sense now! "Dr. Goldfoot" was released on November 6, 1965, and the first Acid Test was held in Palo Alto, California in November of 1965. (LSD was legal in the United States until Oct 6, 1966) I'm starting to see a pattern, No, I'm starting to see a lot of patterns, and they're starting to move!
The honourable Vincent Price is Dr. Goldfoot! I'm beginning to think Vinnie would do almost anything for a buck, as long as he got to hang out with a bunch of young, beautiful women in gold bikinis!
Dr. Goldfoot is a nefarious character Hell bent on taking over the entire world with the help of his army of female robots! Where do these guys get these ideas, and what the heck is that blonde packing??
It's like a Disney movie gone horribly wrong or a 'G' rated film for adults, and yet it was popular enough that they made a sequel, "Dr. Goldfoot And The Girl Bombs!" 60's culture Pop icons Frankie Avalon and Susan Hart start to mix it up until Dr. Goldfoot throws her switch to off because he's the wrong guy! Frankie probably holds the title of being in the most movies with the word 'Bikini' or the word 'Party' in it! Besides this film, there's "Operation Bikini," "Beach Party," Muscle Beach Party," "Bikini Beach," "Pajama Party," "Ski Party," and "How To Stuff A Wild Bikini!"
The real target was Dobie Gillis, I mean Dwayne Hickman as Todd Armstrong, the Nation's Wealthiest Man! Dwayne was so young looking that when he started his teenage Dobie role, he was already 25 years old! "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis" ran for 147 episodes from 1959 to 1963, and I think I've seen every one of them! As a child actor in the 40's, Dwayne was in films like "The Boy With Green Hair," and "Mighty Joe Young."
Pretty cool looking 1964 Dodge Dart convertible!
Susan Hart's robot needed to have some reprogramming done! Besides being
THE "Ghost In The Invisible Bikini," a 'Bikini' movie that Frankie Avalon wasn't in, Susan was Lily Kilua in the upcoming "Ride The Wild Surf," one of the few surf movies that was actually kind of serious and not a beach party flick! Probably one of Susan's biggest roles ever, was she was the real-life wife of AIP president James H. Nicholson right up to his death! In his recent post, Tabonga neglected to mention that Susan Hart also had the role of the daughter Bonnie Galbraith in "The Slime People!"
Looking at the band in this club scene immediately brings to mind Brian Horrorwitz and The Ubangis banging out the theme to "Green Slime" for some reason! In reality, who knows who these guys are. It sounds like maybe Sam Butera and the Witnesses, but your guess is as good as mine. The main music in
"Dr.Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine" was written by Dungeon Master Les Baxter!! The main theme song, "The Bikini Machine" was written by Guy Hemric and Jerry Styner and performed by The Supremes, who are usually associated with Motown, not Malibu or Fisherman's Wharf!
On the left is Jack Mullaney as Dr. Goldfoot's assistant Igor! Jack was always the fourth guy in every threesome! He had a continuing role as Peter Robinson in the 60's TV series "My Living Doll" with Julie Newmar, and he was also the star of a strange TV show that ran for almost two years, where he was an astronaut named Hector who got sent back to the Stone Age with his buddy Mac!
Dr. Goldfoot is trying to get the rich man and the robot drunk so that he can gain control of the whole Armstrong fortune!
I can't get enough of Susan Hart turning off and on!
These people are all very tricky! In this movie Dwayne Hickman plays Todd Armstrong and Frankie Avalon plays Craig Gamble, and in the movie "Ski Party" Dwayne Hickman plays a character named Craig Gamble and Frankie Avalon plays a guy called Todd Armstrong! What a bunch of weirdos!
"Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine" was orignally supposed to be more of a musical comedy, but then they cut out most of the music!
Dr. Goldfoot's Dungeon, unlike our own, is stocked with characters from other AIP features, Annette Funicello and Harvey Lembeck!!
And they finish the whole thing off with a rehashing of Vinnie's role in "The Pit And The Pendulum!" Can we just have one big collective WTF!??
You can find it almost anywhere, including streaming on Netflix! Prefect film for the holidays, it makes no sense at all!!
The great Central Valley of California has produced it's share of celebrities over the years, but nobody will probably outshine the accomplishments of Mr. Bob Mathias! Born in Tulare, Calif, Bob won the Gold Medal at the 1948 Olympics in the Decathlon. He was the youngest person to ever win the Gold Medal in a track and field event! He played football at Stanford for a couple of years, and then at the next Olympics, he won the Decathlon a second time by an incredible 912 points. It was 1952 and Bob Mathias not only won back to back decathlons, a never before accomplished feat, but he also played in The Rose Bowl the same year!
Okay, let's get this party started, and everybody knows that human sacrifices lose some of their zing if there's not a whole bunch of dancing girls as the opening act, so without further adieu, here's "The Minotaur"! Cool big head Minotaur set!!
The music for "The Minotaur" was composed by the Maestro Carlo Rustichelli whom we've written about many times before, and rightfully so, since his 263 compositions have included titles like "Blood and Black Lace," and "Kill,Baby,Kill" etc, etc, etc ad nauseum!
The real musical story here is that the super fantastic guitar player Roy Buchanan grew up just 17 miles down Highway 99 from Bob Mathias in the booming metropolis of Pixley, California, which even today sports less than 3000 denizens!! It just shows to go you, that having the worst air in the whole United States hasn't affected The Valley's ability to crank out talent over the years!
"Wave your hands in the air like you don't care, Glide by the people as they start to look and stare, Do your dance, do your dance, do your dance quick Momma, Come on baby tell me What's The Word?" - Cameo ("Word Up" was also covered by another Big Valley phenomena, the band KORN)
My Word, did you see that Thelma Lou, that woman's got fire coming right out of her head!!
It's kind of interesting that the only black people in "Teseo Contro Il Minotauro" are in the band!
The former Miss Liguria, and Italian Sex Goddess Rosanna Schiaffino does double duty as Princess Fedra and also as Arianna, and what about that 36-22-35 outfit? Abbaio!!! 
Because "The Minotaur" was made in Italy, instead of Bob, they call him Prince Teseo, and his best pal is named Chirone. Chirone is played by Alberto Lupo who was the star of Dungeon fave, "Atom Age Vampire." 
These guys really do look like brothers! Bob Mathias served in The Marine Corp and was a Republican member of the US House of Representatives representing California from 1967 to 1975!! He passed away in 2006!
It seems that all of Rosanna's outfits are built to showcase that 22 inch waist! The dude in the lower photo really wanted to be Rod Taylor, but he just couldn't pull it off!
He went that way Boss!!!
There's still time left for one more dance number!
And it's off for the final confrontation with The Minotaur! Just to refresh your memory, so you know what The Minotaur is up against, The Decathlon is made up of 10 events in 2 days that include: a 100 meter race, the long jump, the shot put, the high jump, the 400 meter race, the 100 meter hurdles, the discus throw, the pole vault, the javelin throw, and it wraps up with a 1500 meter race! That's why the winner is declared "The World's Greatest Athelete!"
Finally we get to see the big guy that all the commotion's about! You've probably never seen one, but this is a Minotaur. It's kind of like a miniature version of the Tour de France, but in Italy!
"Aw, it's just a little blood, no big deal, it washes right off!" I don't know why, but you can catch "The Minotaur" streaming on Netflix!
