جاري تجهيز المحتوى...
جاري تجهيز تفاصيل الفيلم...
She's an eye catcher… He's a spy catcher
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
هذه الصفحة متاحة حالياً كصفحة كتالوج. قد تتم إضافة خيارات مشاهدة قانونية لاحقاً.
Provider information is shown for reference. Playback is not available on AnubiPlay.
Powered by JustWatch
Dirk Bogarde
Nicholas Whistler
Sylva Koscina
Vlasta Simoneva
Robert Morley
Col. Cunliffe
Leo McKern
Simoneva
Roger Delgado
Josef
Derek Fowlds
Sun Bathing Man
CinemaSerf
November 11, 2023
Dirk Bogarde is quite charismatic in this rather daft spy story set at the height of the Cold War. "Whistler" is a struggling writer who is found a job opportunity by the local labour exchange. Arriving at the plush office of glass-maker "Cunliffe" (Robert Morley) and his sidekick "Allsop" (John Le Mesurier) he is dazzled by the enormous £40 per week wage and equally bamboozled that they want to give him such a lucrative job in an industry about which he knows zilch. First assignment is a trip to Communist Czechoslovakia where he is to rendezvous with a fellow glass engineer, and after having exchanged the passwords - hence the film's title - swap books and come straight home. Simple? Well, of course not quite. He has no idea that he is being used by his new boss and that the Czech intelligence service - run by "Simoneva" (Leo McKern) is onto him. That latter man even gets his glamorous daughter "Vlasta" (Sylva Koscina) to drive for the man so they can speedily apprehend him - but, of course, that doesn't quite go to plan either! Finally cottoning on to the nature of his predicament, our hapless "Whistler" has to find a way of making it to the safety of the British embassy before he is found "accidentally having fallen from his luxury hotel window". It's a little bit slapstick and over-scripted, but the assembled cast do add a bit of fun to the leading performance that is maybe more reminiscent of his "Doctor..." films rather than his more substantial roles. That said, fans of British comedy films will recognise just about everyone and it's parody of "James Bond" at times can't go un-noticed. Not great, but worth a watch, I'd say.
Gotcha!
1985
Johnny English Strikes Again
2018
Eric Pohlmann
Golushha
John Le Mesurier
Roger Allsop
Noel Harrison
Johnnie
Amanda Grinling
Cunliffe’s Secretary
Philo Hauser
Vicek
John Junkin
Clerk in Opening Scene
Jill Melford
Lorna
Derek Nimmo
Fred
Richard Vernon
Roddinghead
Brook Williams
Leon
Gertan Klauber
Technician in Czech Glass Factory
Richard Pasco
Plakov
Alan Tilvern
Simenova's Assistant
Norman Bird
Employment Exchange Clerk
Shadow of the Thin Man
1941
The Mouse That Roared
1959
The Cheap Detective
1978
Hostile Takeover
2025
Thunderstruck
2012
Much Ado About Nothing
2013
Black Widow
1987
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993
The Silencers
1966
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
Undercover Brother
2002
My Spy
2020
The Errand Boy
1961
The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!
2010
Batman and Harley Quinn
2017
Strange Brew
1983
The Meteor Man
Hot Shots!
1991