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Release year: 1964

Storyline

Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind up on an island in a hotel with an apparently crazed manager and a building full of demented residents.

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Jayne Mansfield — Darlene(Mrs. Smithopopolis)
Cameron Mitchell — Lylle Corbett
Dodie Heath — Sandra Morelli
Ivor Salter — Dolph Kostis(Mr. Smithopopolis)

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Did you know

• Filmed on location in the former Yugoslavia in August 1963, Jayne Mansfield was then four months pregnant with her daughter Mariska Hargitay (costumes carefully conceal Jayne's slightly protruding tummy).

• A host of production problems, including financing, location and personnel issues, caused filming to be stopped several times, resulting in at least four different directors - regardless of their experience in musical comedies - working on the project at various times. One director, Ray Nazarro, specialized almost exclusively in "B" westerns and cheap hillbilly musicals for Columbia, and was hired because he just happened to be in Europe when a director was needed. Producer Albert Zugsmith also directed some scenes in the periods between when one director left and another was hired.

• Ray Nazarro is credited as director in official Italian and UK records, because it was not changed when the Production company sold the project. He did not start filming, and his name was not credited on screen: the German version was credited to Gustav Gavrin, and the English dubbed version, with a different cut and shorter, was credited to Richard E. Cunha.

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