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.
So you want Plot? Woody Allen bought a Japanese spy movie, removed the voice track, and replaced it with one of his own. He doesn't seem to have bothered with the original script at all. Typical Joke: "Back off! My secret spy camera has taken pictures of you all through your clothes. Unless you release me, your naked photos will be sold in every school yard in Tokyo within the hour. Unless you are totally comfortable with your body, you must release me." Very funny, but also very unusual.
Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
American International Pictures bought the 1965 Japanese film "Key of Keys" for $66,000. However, the studio quickly realized that it was far too confusing for Western audiences. AIP president Henry G. Saperstein came up with the idea of turning the original inscrutable thriller into a comedy by dubbing it with different dialogue. As Woody Allen had just scored an unexpected hit with his screenplay for
What's New Pussycat, Saperstein hired him.
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Goofs
Revealing mistakes:
When the Port of Yokohama is shown, the captions call it "Yokahama".
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Quotes
Woody Allen:
They wanted in Hollywood to make the definitive spy picture. And they came to me to supervise the project, you know, because I think that, if you know me at all, you know that death is my bread and danger my butter - oh, no, danger's my bread, and death is my butter. No, no, wait. Danger's my bread, death - no, death is - no, I'm sorry. Death is my - death and danger are my various breads and various butters. See more »
Crazy Credits
Woody Allen is laying on a couch eating an apple while a woman stripper is
taking her black dress and undergarments off in front of him. Meanwhile the
end credits scroll up on the right side of the screen. The credits say:
The characters and
events depicted in this
photoplay are fictitious.
Any similarity to actual
persons living or dead is
purely coincidental.
And if you have been
reading this instead of
looking at the girl, then
see your psychiatrist, or
go to a good eye doctor
(the credits now scroll faster and give and eye test):
E 1
FP 2
TOZ 3
LPED 4
PECFD 5
EDFCZP 6
FELOPZD 7
DEFPOTEC 8
LEFODPCT 9
FSFPTFED 10
????????? 11
By this time, the stripper is about to remove her underwear.
Woody stops her and says,
"I promised I'd put her in the film somewhere."
(only his voice is dubbed)
THE END (appears in the lower left)
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