Last seen October 2012, film is great fun and gets funnier as it proceeds. Edwards was a good director, packing frames with exuberant action (it's in Panavision) and using great visual gags such as a tank which suddenly disappears beneath the earth, and the way James Coburn quickly hides drunken Dick Shawn's bottle in a chest only to find someone else is hiding in it.
Presumably in this Spanish release we are losing the English subtitles which must have been present originally over Italian and German passages.
Filmed on a reasonably authentic (well, half of it is) set in Lake Sherwood California. Shot by Philip Lathrop, editor Ralph E. Winters (many Edwards films plus Avanti, The Front Page, The Thomas Crown Affair and Ben-Hur).
Dick Shawn was in The Producers, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Love at First Bite and lots of TV.
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