The Fat Spy (1966)

User Rating:

2.9/10   

Director:

Joseph Cates

Writer:

Matthew Andrews (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

It's a killer... a Diller... a blast of laffs!

Plot:

Off the coast of Florida, a nearly-deserted island is rumored to have the fountain of youth. A boatload...

Plot Keywords:

Fountain Of Youth | Florida | Motorboat | Mermaid | Bicycle

Cast

Phyllis Diller	...	Camille Salamander
Jack E. Leonard	...	Irving / Herman Gonjular (Twins)
Brian Donlevy	...	George Wellington
Johnny Tillotson	...	Dodo Bronk
Jayne Mansfield	...	Junior Wellington
Lauree Berger	...	Nanette
Jordan Christopher	...	Frankie
The Wild Ones	...	Themselves (Band)
Lou Nelson	...	Punjab, The Sikh
Toni Lee Shelly	...	Naiomi the Mermaid
Penny Roman	...	Herself
Adam Keefe	...	Special Voice (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Chuck Alden	...	Treasure Hunter
Jill Bleidner	...	Treasure Hunter
Tommy Graves	...	Treasure Hunter
Linda Harrison	...	Treasure Hunter
Jeanette Taylor	...	Treasure Hunter
Tommy Trick	...	Treasure Hunter
Toni Turner	...	Treasure Hunter
Tracy Vance	...	Treasure Hunter
Deborah White	...	Treasure Hunter
Eddie Wright	...	Treasure Hunter

Runtime:

USA:80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Cape Coral, Florida, USA

Company:

Phillip Productions

Trivia:

Perhaps because the production had run out of money, a final portion of this movie was never actually shot; instead, the camera simply pans over script pages describing what occurred in the missing scenes.

Quotes:

Irving: Early this afternoon, a group of unidentified adolescents emerged from the sea. Now after careful investigation, I was able to determine that they were...
Wellington: ...teenagers? On a treasure hunt?

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made (2004) (V)

Campy... but so bad it's almost funny

Really one of the worst movies I've ever seen. But funny in the same way "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is. The "musical" scenes are stunningly bad and the songs themselves are worse still. The acting is consistently horrific throughout. The plot and storyline impossible to fathom let alone follow. The 'actors' themselves seem to have no idea what the plot is. High point would be the 'musical' number near the end with Phyllis Diller and Jack E Leonard dancing around in some garden. But even though it's terrible from start to finish, it's watchable on some strange campy level. It's just so incredibly bad ... I kept wondering if it might eventually make some sort of sense before it was all over. But it didn't.

It would be impossible to write a spoiler of 'The Fat Spy' because even after watching it twice, I have no idea what it was about.

I found this on DVD at Wal-Mart for $2.00 CDN.