He completely changed the tone of the film from a James Bond clone into a comedy about the search for the world's best egg salad recipe.

[3] During post-production, Allen's original one-hour television version was expanded without his permission to include additional scenes from International Secret Police: A Barrel of Gunpowder, the third film in the International Secret Police series,[2] and musical numbers by the band the Lovin' Spoonful.

The plot provides the setup for a string of sight gags, puns, jokes based on Asian stereotypes, and general farce.

The movie has an ending credits scene unrelated to the plot, in which China Lee, a Playboy Playmate and wife of Allen's comic idol Mort Sahl who does not appear elsewhere in the film, does a striptease while Allen (who is also on-screen) explains that he promised he would put her in the film somewhere.

All tracks written by John Sebastian, Joe Butler, Steve Boone and Zal Yanovsky, except where noted.

Expressing disappointment in the movie, The New York Times stated that "the peppery English sound track wears thin as the action churns around in absolute chaos.