Top cast:Ferruccio Garavaglia,Vittoria Lepanto,Cesare Dondine
Director:Rowdy Herrington
Genre:Comedy
Region:Finland
Year:2024
Storyline:[The entire outdoor set was from the filmWestworld (1973).]This was Brooks"" secondmajorfilm - his debut film wasThe Producers (1968).Gig Young was originally cast in the role as The Waco Kid, and Dan Dailey was once considered.The role of the sheriff was originally designed for Richard Pryor (one of the film""s screenwriters), but he was considered too controversial at the time...To escape the flesh-eating birds that made he sky almost as black as the beach....The birds hovered and swooped o attack and hovered and swooped to attack.They were diving down on the sea turtles, turning them over to expose their soft undersides, earing their undersides open and rending and eating their flesh...of IMF agents at the Embassy tonight?" He described the members of a second IMF team: the "drunk Russians" on the embankment, a waltzing couple, the waiter behind Hannah at the top of the stairs, and a guy with a bowtie." The entire film glorifies thejoie de vivreof Paris, but it was shot on MGM""s sound stages in California, except for a few opening, establishing shots of the scenic city.It is an uphill struggle to sell his script, for he clearly isn""t held in high regard at Esoteric Studios (compared to his stardom status at Universal).