Did anyone else notice...
Director Aldrich's penchant for odd vocal overdubs, or rather the insertion of dialogue not in the original scene? For example, Charles Bronson's character threatens Victor Buono, in two different scenes, and each time he walks out the door and is off camera we can hear a strange, high pitch giggle (ala the Riddler from Batman TV series). The implication is that it is Bronson giggling, although it completely defies his characterization or his voice. It does not fit at all. A second overdub is when Dean Martin is asking Ursula Andress whose robe he is wearing, she says "My husband's", He is startled, and when she explains that he died a year ago there is an obvious Dean Martin giggle inserted before he actually moves his lips to speak his actual dialogue. You can tell it wasn't in the original scene, and to have Dean laugh at Ursula's husband's death is a little cold (this is a comedy?). A final example is the riverboat finale where everyone is fighting. There are so many insertions of dialogue over the people brawling and watching, it just comes off as cheap and bad filmaking.
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