Wily William Mishkin bought the 1959 German crime drama Mädchen für die Mambo-Bar, about the prostitutes, dope addicts, and spies who frequent the titular nightclub, and tarted it up with a new campaign for a 1968 U.S. release. Prolific director Wolfgang Glück (False Shame) mostly worked for German television and later portrayed an impending victim of the psychotic duo in Michael Haneke's 1997 Funny Games.