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Due Mafiosi Contro Goldginger (1965), an Italian/Spanish co-production Eurospy spoof of Goldfinger directed by Giorgio Simonelli. It was picked up by American International Pictures and dubbed into English to be shown on their AIP-TV movie package as "The Amazing Dr. G." The plot follows an evil genius named Goldginger, who hatches a plot to turn all government employees into mindless drones (mission successful at the DMV).Italian JobsItalian popular cinema is ruled by the law of the filone (literally, "streamlet"). When a film, Italian or foreign, becomes a box-office hit, the industry scrambles to produce a flood of films aimed at cashing in on whatever element seems most bankable -- a genre, a star, a title. When the B.O. dries up, so does the filone. Many U.S. filmmakers operate on the same principle, of course, but Italy has refined the process to an astonishing degree: Whereas Hollywood may take a year or longer to copy a popular hit, the Italians can have knockoffs on screens in a matter of months. So many French and Italian films used "007" that United Artists told the Italian film industry that only James Bond could be 007, and threatened legal action. Working around this restriction, many films were given similar, but legally acceptable, three-digit numbers in their titles such as the Italian-Spanish "A 001, OPERAZIONE GIAMAICA, A.K.A. OUR MAN IN JAMAICA" (1965) and 008: OPERATION EXTERMINATE (1965) from director Umberto Lenzi, which featured the first female Bond-type hero.
Italy's post-Bond filone was a veritable torrent. To begin with, there were the OPERAZIONE movies, 10 thrillers rushed into release between 1961 and 1967. Less a series than a marketing plan, these were a disparate bunch of pictures artificially squeezed together under the Operation Whatever rubric. For example, OPERAZIONE PAURA (1965) is none other than Mario Bava's creepy KILL BABY KILL, about a house haunted by the spirit of a little girl. As horror buffs know, it has nothing whatsoever to do with spies. In the same vein, OPERAZIONE GOLD INGOT (1961) was originally a French comedy thriller called EN PLEIN CIRAGE, made the year before DR. NO and retitled to cash in on the spy craze. The "series" peaked in 1965, immediately after the record-setting success of GOLDFINGER, with the release of six films in a single year. Though Italian filmmakers sensed that Bond fever was waning, they continued to churn out variations on the theme for several years, some of them truly amazing.
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