Watch What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) Free Online

Release Date: 1966

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi, Louise Lasser, Frank Buxton, Sachio Sakai, Len Maxwell, Woody Allen, Mie Hama, Hideyo Amamoto, Susumu Kurobe, China Lee, Tadao Nakamaru, Akiko Wakabayashi ...MORE

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi, Louise Lasser, Frank Buxton, Sachio Sakai, Len Maxwell, Woody Allen, Mie Hama, Hideyo Amamoto, Susumu Kurobe, China Lee, Tadao Nakamaru, Akiko Wakabayashi, John Sebastian ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Parody, Comedy, Japanese Movies, Absurdism

What's Up, Tiger Lily?, a 1966 comedy film, is the first film directed by Woody Allen, who also wrote and appeared in it. Allen took International Secret Police: A Barrel of Gunpowder and International Secret Police: Key of Keys, two in a series of Japanese spy films and overdubbed them with completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original films. By putting in new scenes and rearranging the order of existing scenes, he completely changed the tone of the films from a James Bond clone into a comedy about the search for the world's best egg salad recipe.  MORE

What's Up, Tiger Lily?, a 1966 comedy film, is the first film directed by Woody Allen, who also wrote and appeared in it. Allen took International Secret Police: A Barrel of Gunpowder and International Secret Police: Key of Keys, two in a series of Japanese spy films and overdubbed them with completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original films. By putting in new scenes and rearranging the order of existing scenes, he completely changed the tone of the films from a James Bond clone into a comedy about the search for the world's best egg salad recipe. Louise Lasser, who was married to Allen at the time, served as one of the voice actors for the "new" dialogue soundtrack, as did Mickey Rose, Allen's writing partner on Take The Money and Run and Bananas. During post-production, musical numbers by the band The Lovin' Spoonful were spliced into the movie against Woody Allen's wishes. This helped convince Allen that he should secure creative control for all his future projects. The band released a soundtrack album. Replacing a foreign movie's soundtrack for comic effect has been used in numerous television shows and movies. Fractured Flickers, which LESS