To Catch a Spy
To Catch a Spy is a 1971 comedy spy film directed by Dick Clement and starring Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard, Richard Pearson, Garfield Morgan, Angharad Rees and Robert Raglan. It was written by Clement and Ian La Frenais. The story is based on the 1969 novel Catch Me a Spy by George Marton and Tibor Méray.
Plot
Fabienne, a young French-born British schoolteacher marries and heads to Bucharest in the Eastern Bloc for their honeymoon. Her husband is arrested by secret police and soon turns out to have been detained by Soviet intelligence as a spy. She intends to head to Moscow to try and help him, but instead is drugged and sent on a plane back to England by a seemingly suspicious waiter.
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author | Ian La Frenais |
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contentLocation | London |
director | Dick Clement |
editor | John Bloom |
genre | comedy |
keywords | abduct arrest boat chase british intelligence bucharest capitalist drug east german border eastern bloc enemy agent honeymoon hotel room ice id inner german border manuscript married microfilm moscow motor boat schoolteacher scotland scottish secret police shadow shadow foreign secretary smuggle soviet soviet dissidents soviet spy soviet union special branch trench coat waiter west western bloc |
musicBy | Claude Bolling |
producer | Pierre Braunberger Steven Pallos |
productionCompany | The Bryna Company |
publisher | Rank Film Distributors |
theme | spy spy comedy |