Catch Me a Spy

Director: Dick Clement Dick Clement

Overview

Dick Clement directed this late-in-the-game spy thriller, starring Kirk Douglas. Douglas plays Andrej, a drone that smuggles books out of communist countries. Unfortunately for Andrej, he is mistaken for a spy and gets into a series of convoluted situations. Fabienne (Marlene Jobert), who lives with Sir Trevor Dawson (Trevor Howard), a randy British minister, is the slinky sex-bomb who finagles Andrej into the heart-thumping predicaments. Also on hand is Tom Courtenay as Baxter Clarke, an inept counter-espionage agent, who manages to make Andrej's already bad situation worse.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/10/2015
UPC:	0644827646623
Original Release:	1971
Source:	Reel Vault
Language:	English
Sales rank:	43,888

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Kirk Douglas	Andrej
Marlene Jobert	Fabienne
Trevor Howard	Sir Trevor Dawson
Tom Courtenay	Baxter Clarke
Patrick Mower	John Fenton
Bernadette Lafont	Simone
Bernard Blier	Webb
Sacha Pitoeff	Stefan
Richard Pearson	Haldane
Garfield Morgan	Jealous Husband
Angharad Rees	Victoria
Isabel Dean	Celia
Robin Parkinson	British Officer
Jonathan Cecil	British Attache
Robert Raglan	Ambassador
Jean Gilpin	Ground Stewardess
Bridget Turner	Woman in Plane
Trevor Peacock	Man in Plane
Clive Gazes	Rumanian in Plane
Ashley Knight	Schoolboy
Philip Da Costa	Schoolboy
Robert Gillespie	Man in Elevator
Sheila Steafel	Woman in Elevator
Bunny May	Elevator Attendant
Fiona Moore	Russian Girl
Bernice Stegers	Russian Girl
Dinny Powell	Heavy
Del Baker	Heavy
John Fenton	Actor
Clive Cazes	Rumanian in Plane
Claude Bolling	Composer

Technical Credits

Dick Clement

Ian La Frenais

Pierre Braunberger	Producer
Dick Clement	Director,Screenwriter
Steven Pallos	Producer
Ian La Frenais	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

One thing a spy comedy (or any comedy, for that matter) should never be is tedious, yet that's exactly what Catch Me a Spy is for most of its running time. One of many tongue-in-cheek spy capers that flowered in the wake of the phenomenal James Bond series, Spy packs in just about every spy cliché it can think of. This by itself wouldn't be bad, if the creators had come up with something clever or amusing or simply surprising to do with these clichés. Instead, they wink at their use, under the mistaken assumption that acknowledging a cliché will give them some sort of post-modern credibility and that the lack of invention will be excused. Things do pick up in the last 20 or so minutes, and the speedboat chase that ends the flick is a humdinger. But getting to that chase involves treading too much water. A high-powered cast is largely wasted. Trevor Howard comes across very well, and Tom Courtenay also has his moments. Top-billed Kirk Douglas actually does not have the star part, which is just as well; he's okay but nothing special in this role, and really isn't ideally cast. Marlene Jobert is the real lead, and she's fine but nothing more.

All Movie Guide - Craig Butler