A 1967 British comedy directed by Robert Parrish that has a singing matador (Peter Sellers) looking for his big break and tries to win over a beautiful woman (Britt Ekland) in three days.
The movie also stars Rossano Brazzi, Adolfo Celi, Hattie Jacques, Ferdy Mayne, Kenneth Griffith, Al Lettieri, and Marne Maitland.
It was released on September 28, 1967.
Tropes for the film:
- And I'm the Queen of Sheba: Singer/Matador Juan Bautista (Sellers) is posing as a representative to a rich count to fool Olimpia Segura (Ekland). They arrive at a posh resort where he introduces himself to the manager as "emissary to His Excellency Martin Aragon Bocales de Villa Banal de Guilia de Comperes, the Count of Villa Banal." The manager breezily replies "And I am Louis XIV!" It's hard to tell if it's sarcasm, as he is dressed like the monarch.
- The Fool: Juan is an itinerant singer who tries to get his big break at a Barcelona theaternote . The theater owner agrees on the condition that, within three days, he can seduce a manipulative gold-digger. Averted as Bautista is shown to be adept at concocting and sustaining an elaborate ruse to string her along.
- Foreign Cuss Word: Bautista, looking for his big break, plays a song to an unenthusiastic theater owner, who critiques him with "As they say in France - merde".
- Hood Ornament Hottie: Olimpia lounges seductively on the hood of a Maserati in a showroom. The car's new owner admires how she looks on it, unaware she had blackmailed the dealer out of it for herself.
- Mark of Shame: Bautista is a wandering musician who accepts a wager where he gets a theater engagement if he can seduce a discriminating courtesan. He wins her over but she finds out about the wager, and as retribution forces him at gunpoint into a bath heavily laced with blue dye.
