“The movie didn’t make sense, but they didn’t want it to make sense,” says co-star Daliah Lavi, now 73. Noah, the evil head of Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH), Orson Welles and John Huston, who also is credited as a director.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s review called the two-hour, 17-minute Royale “over-long, undisciplined, formless, confusing, misfiring and a threat to the coccyx.” The film had five credited directors one star (Peter Sellers) who believed the film shouldn’t be done as a spoof and acted accordingly a slew of celebrity cameos (Jean-Paul Belmondo and Peter O’Toole among them), plus a cast that included Woody Allen (who played both Jimmy Bond - James Bond’s nephew - and Dr.
