Classic Rewind: "Caprice" (1967)

Frank Tashlin's baffling and ditsy spy thriller "Caprice" was, at the time of its release, not only an embarrassment for 20th Century Fox, but for the film's star, Doris Day, who quite famously was mistakenly obligated to do the role after unknowingly having her contract signed by her husband/manager, Martin Melcher.
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Richard Harris, who lends the film his best Cary Grant impersonation, hated it so much that he never even bothered to see it.
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And indeed, the film is an undeniable mess, full of ambiguous identities, deadly ski-shooters and an international cosmetics spygate, yet like a woozy cross between "Charade" and "The Glass Bottom Boat", the film eventually finds (or rather surfaces as) a unique blend of romanticized global thriller and Hitchcockian satire.
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How else could you explain away the sheer inanity of the film's madcap plot which at one point centers around a secretive, waterproof hairspray. Doris Day even stumbles into a movie theater to lop off a piece of hair from a prospective user to see a film called "Caprice" - what's going on here? [B]