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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Action, Comedy
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy irreverent experimental comedy, deliberately mismatched dialogue, and the gleeful sabotage of conventional spy-film seriousness.
- Tone
- playful, satirical, surreal
- Payoff
- amusement
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- gentle
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- parody, espionage, linguistic absurdity, cultural dissonance
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, stylized international spy locales