Top cast:Marc McDermott,Miriam Nesbitt,Mary Fuller
Director:Frank Oz
Genre:Comedy
Region:Germany
Year:2001
Storyline:After its sneak-preview premiere showing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 22, 1967, the film was initially rumored to be shelved (due to its disastrous opening and other negative test screenings), but its strong word of mouth in the intervening months propelled it to be opened in more cities.He introduced himself as "an old friend of Peter""s" - she admitted that their relationship was "complicated" and that they were currently broken-up.In this pre-Code romantic drama about an obsessive, manipulative romance of a cheating female with a male benefactor in "bondage" to her, there were issues of promiscuity, adultery, a birth out-of-wedlock, naked drawings, a mutually-destructive relationship, and retributive death from TB/syphilis during prostitution.Evening - Day OneThe next scene, introduced by the snapping fingers of the guitar player to set the tempo, is within the Elysian Room where a group of five, suited-and-tied jazz musicians on a bandstand play a rhythmic number.One of his eaching associates, a German master named Max Staefel (Paul von Hernreid, later Paul Henreid), attempts to bring him out of his isolation with a suggestion to join him for a walking tour of his "old country" - through Tyrol.