| What's Up, Tiger Lily? | |
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 Theatrical re-release poster | |
| Directed by | Woody Allen Senkichi Taniguchi |
| Written by | Woody Allen Louise Lasser Len Maxwell Julie Bennett Frank Buxton Mickey Rose Bryna Wilson Hideo Andô |
| Conceived by | Ben Shapiro |
| Produced by | Henry G. Saperstein Reuben Bercovitch Tomoyuki Tanaka Shin Mortia |
| Starring | Woody Allen |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Yamada |
| Edited by | Richard Krown |
| Music by | The Lovin' Spoonful |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Countries | United States Japan |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~$400,000[1] |
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] He both put in new scenes and rearranged the order of existing scenes, producing a one-hour movie from the 93 minutes of the original film. 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.[3]
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,[2] and musical numbers by the band the Lovin' Spoonful. 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).[3] In 2003, Image released the film on DVD, with both the theatrical and television (called "alternate") soundtracks.
- ^ B is for Low Budget and Big Box Office Bucks, So Sam Arkoff is Proud to Be Called Hollywood's King of the B Pictures. Archived May 23, 2014, at the Wayback Machine People Magazine. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
- ^ a b Mavis, Paul. "What's Up, Tiger Lily?". DVD Talk. Archived from the original on May 4, 2012. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ^ a b "International Secret Police". Tokyo Street Report. April 16, 2009. Archived from the original on July 4, 2010. Retrieved September 15, 2010.