What's Up, Tiger Lily?
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| Directed by |
Woody Allen Senkichi Taniguchi |
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Charles H. Joffe Woody Allen |
| Written by | Woody Allen Louise Lasser Len Maxwell Julie Bennett Frank Buxton Mickey Rose Bryna Wilson |
| Starring | Woody Allen Louise Lasser The Lovin' Spoonful |
| Music by | The Lovin' Spoonful |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Yamada |
| Edited by | Richard Krown |
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| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~$400,000 |
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| Soundtrack album by The Lovin' Spoonful | ||||
| Released | September, 1966 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Label | Kama Sutra | |||
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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 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 in new scenes and rearranging the order of existing scenes, he completely changed the tone of the film from a James Bond clone into a comedy about the search for the world's best egg salad recipe.
During post-production, Allen's original one-hour television version was expanded without his permission to include additional scenes from International Secret Police: A Barrel of Gunpowder, the third film in the International Secret Police series, and musical numbers by the band The Lovin' Spoonful. This experience helped convince Allen that he should secure creative control for all his future projects. The band released a soundtrack album. 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 (1969) and Bananas (1971).
The plot provides the setup for a string of sight gags, puns, jokes based on Asian stereotypes, and general farce. The central plot involves the misadventures of secret agent Phil Moskowitz, hired by the Grand Exalted High Majah of Raspur ("a nonexistent but real-sounding country") to find a secret egg salad recipe that was stolen from him.
The movie has an ending unrelated to the plot, in which China Lee, a Playboy Playmate and then-wife of Allen's comic idol Mort Sahl, who does not appear elsewhere in the film, does a striptease while Allen explains that he promised he would put her in the film somewhere.
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