This Disney film was shot across the pond and has an all British cast with the
exception of Helen Hayes. But Hayes is playing that most formidable of British
institutions,the British nannie.
Derek Nimmo a British spy has a valuable piece of microfilm he has smuggled out of China at great risk to life and limb. But the Chinese are on to him. Their spy network operates out of a Chinese restaurant in London and is headed by Peter Ustinov.
Knowing he's being pursued, Nimmo spots his old Nanny Helen Hayes and asks her to hide the microfilm. She does in the Natural History Museum in the bones of a brontosaurus. Talk about hiding in plain site.
It's an amusing G rated comedy from the Magic Kingdom, but I doubt Ustinov could ever get away with his oriental spoof today.
Derek Nimmo a British spy has a valuable piece of microfilm he has smuggled out of China at great risk to life and limb. But the Chinese are on to him. Their spy network operates out of a Chinese restaurant in London and is headed by Peter Ustinov.
Knowing he's being pursued, Nimmo spots his old Nanny Helen Hayes and asks her to hide the microfilm. She does in the Natural History Museum in the bones of a brontosaurus. Talk about hiding in plain site.
It's an amusing G rated comedy from the Magic Kingdom, but I doubt Ustinov could ever get away with his oriental spoof today.