[2][page needed] During the 1960s, the Spanish film industry was regularly making co-production with Italy.

[3] Franco biographer Stephen Thrower stated that between 1964, and 1967 film studios from Rome would release a cavalcade of James Bond parodies.

[3] Lucky, the Inscrutable was released in Italy on June 23, 1967 with a 92 minute running time as Agente Speciale L.K.

It was later released in West Germany on September 1, 1967 as Lucky M. fiillt alle Sarge (transl.

They would collaborate on several of Franco's films in the future, such as Count Dracula (1970), Nightmares Come at Night (1973), and A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) among several others.