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

Release Date: 1966

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

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

Categories: Movies, Absurdism, Comedy, Parody

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... 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