This was also on Amazon Prime and it’s an old Peter Sellars vehicle. Sellars plays a petty Italian thief who has a talent for breaking out of jail. He hears of a gold delivery happening on the beach in Cairo, and he decides to pose as a film director to pull off the heist. Dean Martin plays the hapless actor hired to legitimize the fake production.
Sellars was THE comedy genius of the 1960s, and this film is a good example of why. He carries this spotty script by playing multiple parts and hamming up his inner Italian. There is some satire of movie culture and political posturing, all in the name of fun. Sellars is often politically incorrect, by modern standards, in his film. I guess that’s one reason I enjoyed watching this. Remember when people were’nt so uptight?
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