User reviews 8 Review. Top review. Legendary Venetian lover Giacomo Casanova Tony Curtis escapes the prison cell provided him by the Doge and goes on the lam. His doppelganger is less interested in love and more interested in food and money. Giacomino is willing to pretend to be Casanova or whoever to get them. At first Casanova finds the mere existence of such a person to be disconcerting to say the least. But when faced with the unforeseen problem of erectile dysfunction and a situation in which his services in the bedroom are called for the double suddenly becomes useful in preserving his reputation.
The year before this was made Fellini's take on the Casanova legend hit theatres and very quickly came to be acknowledged as one of the most visually extravagant and breathtakingly avant garde spectacles in modern cinema - a dreamlike utilization of the language of film to tell a legendary story which took audiences to a completely difference place. Just a mounting of a similar production upon the Casanova legend within the same year was thus pretty bad timing and this one measures up quite poorly against the other in every way that is important.
On the surface it could have looked very much the other way around. The Fellini version boasted Donald Sutherland hardly a leading man of Curtis's calibre at the time and surrounded him with Italian actors who were not particularly famous outside their home country. It also assembled a bevy of breathtakingly beautiful Playboy Playmates from Europe and was able to win a kind of cross-promotion with that magazine which should have enabled it to get much more of a foothold with mainstream audiences than the Fellini version did.
But that did not happen. This long forgotten paint-by-numbers Euro Austrian-Italian-French-German sex comedy got lost quite quickly and deservedly so.
But one does sympathize with Tony Curtis who perhaps might have seen this as part of a comeback after a couple of failed network TV series and years back and forth appearing in European film and middle to lower budget American productions. Curtis was in his early 50s by the time he made this having spent much of 40s appearing in work well below the quality of that which he had been in at peak of his Hollywood stardom in his early to mid 30s.
Like many famous talents of greater past fame he attempted to extend his life in sizable roles by going to Europe to star in obscure productions. His involvement or that of a similarly famous American star in a similar production, offered overseas producers a way of gaining distribution into the lucrative North American movie market. But it also gave a title like this a kind of credibility with domestic audiences in Europe.
Moviegoers are happy to embrace parochial film industries when that which is produced by them is not drek. Having a respected film star from America has often been like a stamp of approval in that way silly as the notion of that may be. The numerous ties to the Playboy empire made me wonder if they had any role in financing it. JasonDanielBaker Feb 5, Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon".
A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris. Read more. Sharpe as Dr. Peter Johns Paul as Paul.
Will Verdi Col. Zatzki as Col. Dave Reagan Swordsman 2 as Swordsman 2 credit only. Cathy Linger Swordsgirl as Swordsgirl credit only.
Bob Dwyer Dr. Moreau as Dr. Moreau credit only. Diane Bills Louise as Louise. Nancy Hoffman Miriam as Miriam. Tracy O'Neil Jane as Jane. Justine Taylor Joyce as Joyce. John Holmes credit only Carlos Tobalina uncredited. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia It was thought to be unlikely that this film will ever see the light of day on DVD without heavy editing.
This is due to the numerous depictions of actor John Holmes having sex with women playing girls as young as 13 years old.
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