Topic: Too-Obscure: Michael Collins and Michael Collins

[Otto Puzzell]

No. It was ID'd earlier in this thread.

[Allemano]

Is the connection directly between technic features of both vehicles?

[Ray B.]

Yes, sorry.
I've got another. The 2 NASA crawlers are nicknamed Hans and Franz.
Hans and Franz are two characters in Saturday Night Live, Austrian bodybuilders with a caricatural German accent (or Austrian, i don't know the difference).
In Goldfinger, Gert Froebe, who plays the part, seems to have exaggerated his own accent when speaking english (I remember that it had struck me when I saw the film then).

[Otto Puzzell]

On, no, that's so wrong. So very, very, wrong

[Otto Puzzell]

Is the connection directly between technic features of both vehicles?

Technical features: no.

[Allemano]

Yes, sorry.
I've got another. The 2 NASA crawlers are nicknamed Hans and Franz.
Hans and Franz are two characters in Saturday Night Live, Austrian bodybuilders with a caricatural German accent (or Austrian, i don't know the difference).
In Goldfinger, Gert Froebe, who plays the part, seems to have exaggerated his own accent when speaking english (I remember that it had struck me when I saw the film then).

That was funny!

[Ray B.]

I have a story about this film.
In 1964 (I was 17), I won two seats for the Goldfinger premiere in Paris. It was a kind of competition where you have to prove what a James Bond connoisseur you were. I went there with my girl friend, quite proud to show her Sean Connery, who was attending the event. He sat at the balcony, first row. We were down below in  the firsts ranks, quite in his sight.
At a time in the film, Goldfinger has Bond duly tied on a table with a circular saw (after checking: a laser beam) getting closer and closer, about to deprive him of his manhood. The whole audience held its breath in dead silence. Except my date who let out a very loud mix of shriek and giggle!
I left the theater persuaded that Sean Connery would never forgive me for this.

[Ray B.]

Another connection: Hans and Franz were also nicknamed "Them Golden Slippers" (on account of their cost). This a song by James A. Bland (not Bond), and it can be heard in the 1951 film "Golden Girl", with Mitzi Gaynor.
But the most famous golden girl of them all is Shirley Eaton, naked and painted in gold on the poster of "Goldfinger".

[Otto Puzzell]

Another connection: Hans and Franz were also nicknamed "Them Golden Slippers" (on account of their cost). This a song by James A. Bland (not Bond), and it can be heard in the 1951 film "Golden Girl", with Mitzi Gaynor.
But the most famous golden girl of them all is Shirley Eaton, naked and painted in gold on the poster of "Goldfinger".

Interesting connection, but that's not it. The link here is actually a bit more direct.

[Otto Puzzell]

.....seems to have exaggerated his own accent when speaking english (I remember that it had struck me when I saw the film then).

If this last bit were accurate, this puzzle wouldn't exist.

[Ray B.]

.....seems to have exaggerated his own accent when speaking english (I remember that it had struck me when I saw the film then).

If this last bit were accurate, this puzzle wouldn't exist.

You're right, it's totally inaccurate, since Gert Fröbe didn't speak english at all and, after several aborted tries at saying his lines, was enventually dubbed by Michael Collins (hence maybe the phony German accent).

Another Michael Collins is a former astronaut who flew in the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 missions: is is the relation with the crawler, who carries the spaceships to the take off spot?

[Otto Puzzell]

That's absolutely right! 

Perhaps my clue was too broad?

Goldfinger's voice (in English-language editions) was overdubbed by British actor Michael Collins. In the German-language version, Fröbe overdubbed his own voice.

Goldfinger didn't drive his Rolls, he was chauffeured by Oddjob.

Michael Collins flew to the moon, but didn't walk upon it. He remained in the orbiting Command Module. The Apollo 11 Spacecraft (and many other spacecraft) was transported to the moon on the Crawler-Transporter, built by the Marion Power Shovel company, and driven by NASA support crew. . The transporters are built upon modified version of their mining equipment. In the past, Marion Power Shovel built equipment for gold-dredging mining operations.

[Ray B.]

No. I didn't rmemeber the name of the third man in Apollo 11, and had spotted there was a Michael Collins in the Goldfinger cast, but didn't pay attention until, upon further research, I read about Fröbe's problem with his lines.