1966 · comedy · parody · dub
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Directed by Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi1h 20m1966
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.
Our read: What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal comedy · parody · dub entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / parody, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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