Husband and wife Peter Sellers and Britt Eckland star in one of their many films together. Here, we're in barcelona, and we get a BEAUTIFUL aerial view of the city right at the opening. Juan Bautista comes to town and wants to be hired as a singing matador. before, during, and after, but not so much during. and he finds someone (Carbonnell) who hires him, and will pay him for a week's work IF he can also "spend" an hour with local beauty Olimpia. strange arrangement, but Bautista accepts the challenge. and Olimpia is beautiful! Eckland was actually 25, but in the film, there is much debate about her actual age. and if she is (legally) old enough to date men so much older than herself. or was that just a ruse (when's the last time you heard THAT word?) she seems to like older, worldly, (rich) men. so Bautista thinks he is setting up Olimpia, but who is playing whom here? a couple songs, maybe actually performed by Sellers. this one moves pretty slow by today's standards, but that was Seller's M.O. all along. he could stretch a two minute bit out to ten minutes in so many films. there's a running gag where Bautista keeps asking for a cheese sandwich, but he never seems to get it. and the Count never seems to show up. and they keep zooming in on Ecklands' blue eyes, so clearly that was the whole point of casting her. Can Juan hook up with the town cutie, where all others have failed? see for yourself at Turner Classic. it's okay. nothing too outrageous. one of P Seller's lesser shown projects.
