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What's Up, Tiger Lily? is a 1966 American comedy film directed by Woody Allen in his feature-length directorial debut. Allen took footage from a Japanese spy film, International Secret Police: Key of Keys (1965), and overdubbed it with completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original film. [2]
The country of Rashburg (which is NOT YET on the globe) has hired Phil Moscowitz, a secret agent, to find the recipe of the great egg salad - which had been stolen by an extortionist, Sheppard Wong. Two sister's from Rashburg, Teri and Suki Yaki, are assigned to help Phil bring back the recipe.
Directed by Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi. With Woody Allen, The Lovin' Spoonful, Frank Buxton, Louise Lasser. Woody Allen re-dubs the Japanese spy film Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (1965), turning it into a comedy about an agent pursuing the world's greatest egg salad recipe.
Allen took a Japanese spy film, INTERNATIONAL SECRET POLICE: KEY OF KEYS, and overdubbed it with completely original dialogue that had nothing to do with the plot of the original film. By putting...
A low-rent Japanese spy flick gets a kitschy rewrite from Woody Allen. With hilarious new dubbed dialogue, the revamped movie follows the efforts of secret agent Phil...
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What's Up Tiger Lily? (1966) - Turner Classic Movies. Brief Synopsis. Woody Allen dubbed in comic dialogue for this outrageous spoof of secret-agent thrillers. Cast & Crew. Read More. Tatsuya Mihashi. Phil Moscowitz. Mie Hama. Terri Yaki. Akiko Wakabayashi. Suki Yaki. Tadao Nakamaru. Shepherd Wong. Susumu Kurobe. Wing Fat. Woody Allen.
A Japanese James Bond -esque spy flick reused and redubbed into the plot of a secret agent searching to uncover a recipe for the world's greatest egg salad in Woody Allen's directorial debut.
Overview. In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe. Woody Allen. Director, Writer. Senkichi Taniguchi. Director. Frank Buxton. Writer. Len Maxwell. Writer. Bryna Wilson. Writer. Julie Bennett.
Take a Toho Films (Japan) crime meller [directed by Senkichi Taniguchi], fashioned in the James Bond tradition for the domestic market there, then turn loose Woody Allen and associates to dub and re-edit in camp-comedy vein, and the result is What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
