Our Man Flint (1966)

Derek Flint: 35-14-82, 76-14-29, 72-42-41...
Cab Driver: [speaking Italian] Lottery, Eh? You have a system?
Derek Flint: [speaking Italian] Yes... Infallible! It is a mathematical progression of... 40... 23... 38... It is based on...
Cab Driver: [speaking Italian] I can imagine what it's based on.

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Mr. Cramden: Flint, I owe you my life. The medic said four more seconds, and I...
Derek Flint: *Three* more seconds.
Mr. Cramden: Damn it, man, is there anything you don't know?
Derek Flint: A great many things, sir. But, nothing of consequence.

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Cramden: Your code book.
Derek Flint: If you don't mind, sir, I prefer to use my own personal code.
Cramden: But I would rather you use the government code.
Derek Flint: I already know mine. It's a mathematical progression, 40-26-36. It's based on...
Cramden: I can imagine what it's based on.

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The odd, discordant guitar part played throughout the movie, which is used almost note for note nearly 20 years later by an up and coming band, is a testament to the enduring quality of the composer's music. The band, Wall of Voodoo, best known for its early 1980s hit "Mexican Radio", uses that strange note progression in its updated remake of the Johnny Cash hit, "Ring of Fire." Their version, however, is a nearly ten-minute-long experiment in what would later be termed as techno music. Its mechanical programmed background rhythm and synth-heavy adaption paved the way for later bands. But its use of the riff from this film performed nearly musically verbatim, that makes their version so intriguing.
On the official studio soundtrack album, the song 'Galaxy a Go-Go' was written by a young Randy Newman, who was in fact the nephew of Alfred Newman, the head of 20th Century-Fox's Music Department at that time.
When the girl is kidnapped from the shower, look to the left. Instead of "His" and "Hers" towels, there are two "Hers"
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