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* [[The Can Kicked Him]]: The unlamented Hans Gruber.
* [[The Can Kicked Him]]: The unlamented Hans Gruber.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Flint's watch and its alarm feature.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Flint's watch and its alarm feature.
* [[Check Please]]: Flint's comment when he realizes that he's at the wrong restaurant.
* [[Check, Please!]]: Flint's comment when he realizes that he's at the wrong restaurant.
* [[Collapsing Lair]]
* [[Collapsing Lair]]
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Two Galaxy security guards, while fighting Flint on a catwalk.
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Two Galaxy security guards, while fighting Flint on a catwalk.
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* [[Fun With Acronyms]]: The Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage. Atypically, "Galaxy" is ''not'' an example of this.
* [[Fun With Acronyms]]: The Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage. Atypically, "Galaxy" is ''not'' an example of this.
* [[Gadget Watches]]: Flint has one which combines a sleep alarm and microscope. His lighter acts as a bomb detector and radio (with 80+ other functions).
* [[Gadget Watches]]: Flint has one which combines a sleep alarm and microscope. His lighter acts as a bomb detector and radio (with 80+ other functions).
* [[Go Go Enslavement]]: Gila is dressed in a bikini, ''then'' put in the brainwashing machine.
* [[Go-Go Enslavement]]: Gila is dressed in a bikini, ''then'' put in the brainwashing machine.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Flint does it to Rodney in Galaxy headquarters.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Flint does it to Rodney in Galaxy headquarters.
* [[Hand Signals]]: Both Rodney and Gila use them to command their Galaxy minions.
* [[Hand Signals]]: Both Rodney and Gila use them to command their Galaxy minions.
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]
* [[Heel Face Turn]]
** [[High Heel Face Turn]]/[[Sex Face Turn]]: Gila, of course.
** [[High Heel Face Turn]]/[[Sex Face Turn]]: Gila, of course.
* [[Hey Its That Guy]]: One Galaxy Mook went on to be Mr. Whipple.
* [[Hey It's That Guy]]: One Galaxy Mook went on to be Mr. Whipple.
* [[Holding the Floor]]
* [[Holding the Floor]]
* [[Hypnotize the Princess]]: Galaxy does this to Gila to turn her into a pleasure slave.
* [[Hypnotize the Princess]]: Galaxy does this to Gila to turn her into a pleasure slave.
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* [[Mandatory Unretirement]]
* [[Mandatory Unretirement]]
* [[Mind Control Device]]
* [[Mind Control Device]]
* [[Names the Same]]: Minor villain "Hans Gruber" was later re-used in ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]''; appears to be a coincidence.
* [[Name's the Same]]: Minor villain "Hans Gruber" was later re-used in ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]''; appears to be a coincidence.
* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: Gila's harp-propelled needle and Flint's curare-tipped fly-killing blowgun dart.
* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: Gila's harp-propelled needle and Flint's curare-tipped fly-killing blowgun dart.
* [[Pressure Point]]: Flint, to several Galaxy personnel.
* [[Pressure Point]]: Flint, to several Galaxy personnel.
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* [[Weather Control Machine]]
* [[Weather Control Machine]]
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Raquel Welch was considered for the role of Gila.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Raquel Welch was considered for the role of Gila.
* [[Well Intentioned Extremist]]: The Galaxy leadership.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Galaxy leadership.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Rodney, for about ten seconds before {{spoiler|the roof caves in on him.}}
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Rodney, for about ten seconds before {{spoiler|the roof caves in on him.}}


=== ''In Like Flint'' features: ===
=== ''In Like Flint'' features: ===
* [[Ashes to Crashes]]: Flint escapes after falling into a document incinerator during a fight scene. It helps that the villains thought they had finished him off. In a possibly deliberate homage to this scene, ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (Film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]'' has James Bond being left for dead in an incinerator only to escape a fiery end.
* [[Ashes to Crashes]]: Flint escapes after falling into a document incinerator during a fight scene. It helps that the villains thought they had finished him off. In a possibly deliberate homage to this scene, ''[[Diamonds Are Forever (Film)|Diamonds Are Forever]]'' has James Bond being left for dead in an incinerator only to escape a fiery end.
* [[Conveyor Belt O Doom]]
* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]
* [[CPR Clean Pretty Reliable]]: After shocking a guard's heart back into beating, Flint does some mild chest compression on him.
* [[CPR Clean Pretty Reliable]]: After shocking a guard's heart back into beating, Flint does some mild chest compression on him.
* [[Face Nod Action]]
* [[Face Nod Action]]
* [[Follow the Bouncing Ball]]
* [[Follow the Bouncing Ball]]
* [[Harmless Freezing]]: Flint's girlfriends and the cryogenic freezers.
* [[Harmless Freezing]]: Flint's girlfriends and the cryogenic freezers.
* [[He's Dead Jim]]: Flint can tell whether a man is dead just by holding and looking at his face briefly.
* [[He's Dead, Jim]]: Flint can tell whether a man is dead just by holding and looking at his face briefly.
* [[Improbable Taxonomy Skills]]
* [[Improbable Taxonomy Skills]]
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: At one point Flint breaks into Z.O.W.I.E's headquarters to investigate two people. The only information he manages to find on them is their heart rate measures, and he then declares the following:
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: At one point Flint breaks into Z.O.W.I.E's headquarters to investigate two people. The only information he manages to find on them is their heart rate measures, and he then declares the following:

Revision as of 14:50, 8 January 2014

A lighthearted 1966 parody of James Bond movies, starring James Coburn as super-mega-omnicool (ex-)Z.O.W.I.E. agent Derek Flint, along with Lee J. Cobb as his his harried former boss, Lloyd Cramden. Flint is forced out of retirement to battle Galaxy, an organization led by a trio of Utopian Mad Scientists out to take over the world via their weather-control machine. His investigation leads him across Europe to Galaxy agents Gila and Rodney, and eventually Galaxy's secret headquarters. You can guess what happens then.

Easily one of the best of the slew of 1960s Bond imitations. A year later a sequel came out, In Like Flint, which was a fairly lackluster rehash, and put an end to any thought of an ongoing franchise.

A major influence on the Austin Powers movies, to the point the sequel was explicitly referred to as being the title character's favorite movie.

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In Like Flint features:

 Flint: 80 heartbeats per minute. Must be Russian cosmonauts!

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