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In Like Flint (1967)
4:00 am Jul 15 - by Syd Slobodnik – buzz Writer
For those who thought Austin Powers was a successful parody of James Bond, you may not be aware that one of the original spoofs of the spy film genre and 007 films was director Gordon Douglas’ 1967 film In Like Flint. The movie, which was actually a sequel to the previous year’s Our Man Flint, featured James Colburn as super-spy Derek Flint, an eccentric, womanizing, and skilled martial artist, who like Bond saves the world from evil people.
In Like Flint concerns the threats from a secret society of feminists who want to take over the world by kidnapping the President of the United States and sabotaging a peaceful space laboratory program. Flint is called on the case when the head of the ZOWIE project, Lloyd Cramden, (veteran Broadway actor Lee J. Cobb) is perplexed by the loss of time he experienced on a golf outing with the president (when the president is kidnapped, gassed and replaced by an actor who looks exactly like him). In what is almost a direct reference too Goldfinger’s villain Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus, this group of women hides out in a mod-‘60’s Virgin Islands spa called “Fabulous Face,” where hundreds of bikini clad beauties become brainwashed under salon hairdryers.
Flint eventually infiltrates the Fabulous Face spa, and in this rather crude and silly spoof of early feminism, eventually wins over the women to save the world. Throughout Coburn plays Flint with a slick cool believability and kind of boyish charm. His martial arts skills are equally plausible, for it was well known Coburn trained with the master Bruce Lee. When asked by one beautiful maiden, “What makes you so irresistible to women?” Flint’s confident, smiling reply is, “It’s simple; I don’t compete with them.” So forget Austin Powers and discover this enjoyably fun spoof of spy films that even James Bond would be proud of.
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Last post: Jul. 19, 2010 at 3:40 pm
howiep (Steve Plock) said on Jul. 19, 2010 at 3:40 pm:
"For those who thought Austin Powers was a successful parody of James Bond, you may not be aware that one of the original spoofs of the spy film genre and 007 films was director Gordon Douglas’ 1967 film In Like Flint."
I was made aware when the film was referenced by name within the first five minutes of Austin Powers.