The film is done with a loopy goofy comic style very akin to live theatre with winking and mugging to the camera to make sure that the audience gets the conceit beneath the story. There is a nice moment when the Madame of a brothel welcomes Dragomiloff in disguise as a new client when she says "You'll be one of our best known unknown visitors". It is the ideas at work to center the film that gives it its appeal but this doesn't really allow a movie like this to succeed, which is probably why the producers applied such an artificial style. The flow of ideas is likely to leave the average viewer a little fuzzy-minded (I found myself losing consciousness from time to time), but the payoff is a well-done comic finale in a zeppelin, and a happy ending with love triumphing over all.
This is one of the feature productions Diana Rigg did after her successful run as Emma Peel on the very popular British TV show "The Avengers", although it is not one of her best. Rigg is still funny in episodes of Ricky Gervais's "Extras" and her tongue-in-cheek performance of the leather clad secret agent on British TV is probably what everyone remembers her best for. Rigg was not the best dramatic actress and her best roles are stagy character types like Edwina Lionheart in Theater of Blood, and as Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper.
This is one of the feature productions Diana Rigg did after her successful run as Emma Peel on the very popular British TV show "The Avengers", although it is not one of her best. Rigg is still funny in episodes of Ricky Gervais's "Extras" and her tongue-in-cheek performance of the leather clad secret agent on British TV is probably what everyone remembers her best for. Rigg was not the best dramatic actress and her best roles are stagy character types like Edwina Lionheart in Theater of Blood, and as Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper.