The three drunken tourists were portrayed by Arve Opsahl, Sverre Holm and Carsten Byhring, who played the Olsen Gang in the Norwegian remakes.
Ove Sprogøe wanted to do all the scenes where he is dumped in the harbor himself, but director Erik Balling insisted on using a dummy for the more dangerous shots. The dummy was crushed flat in the first take.
The woman who chases Benny (Morten Grunwald) in Spain is played by Lily Weiding, who would later marry him in real life.
The sheik's Latin motto "Pecunia non olet" (visible on his car door) means "money has no smell".
This was originally supposed to be the last movie of the series.