Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.
Acting
Tony Curtis commits fully to hypochondriac theater.
Production
That castle location screams 'we had one weekend to shoot.'
Director
Henri Helman
Tony Curtis
Parsifal Katzanella-Boden
Erik Estrada
Henry Board II
Peter Lawford
Montague Chippendale
Ron Moody
Baron Gaspard Beersbohm
Donald Pleasence
Mackintosh
Orson Welles
Klingsor
Christopher Chaplin
Ivan
Vladek Sheybal
Morjack
Ava Lazar
Sheila
Jay Benedict
Luke
Edward Burnham
Trofimov
Anthony Dawson
Ripple
Victoria Burgoyne
Gabriella Veronica
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Peter Lawford's final feature film; he died the same year of cardiac and kidney failure.
The title references Wagner's opera about a questing fool—this Parsifal's 'holy grail' is just solvency.
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