One of the best ways to defeat an enemy (at least on the stage and screen) is to make them look like buffoons, even if they are the most dangerous enemy you've ever fought. And sometimes, the enemy who isn't the highest up in power is truly a buffoon. Charters (Basil Radford) and Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) are back, having been around when the lady vanished, and were around on that night train to Munich. They're up to their old ways as the leads in this comedy spy thriller where they are mistaken for spies simply because they order what the spies were supposed to at dinner in a very fancy club and restaurant in the middle of the desert.
An absolutely lively romp filled with absolutely wonderfully eccentric and weird character, including a beautiful singer Greta Gynt (as "La Palermo"), the Mata Hari of world war era middle east. If this was filmed cheaply, you can't tell by the production design. It is exquisite. This may not be the only film to parody World War II espionage, but it's one of the best I've seen in years. There's also a bathroom that anyone desperate enough to use it would get a terrific surprise, as well as other traps and twists. It's easy to compare this to "Road to Morocco", but I think it's closer to the Bob Hope comedy "They Got Me Covered". Practically every American comic did a spy comedy of this nature, but this British film is perhaps the most sophisticated with a definite subtle tongue in cheek.
An absolutely lively romp filled with absolutely wonderfully eccentric and weird character, including a beautiful singer Greta Gynt (as "La Palermo"), the Mata Hari of world war era middle east. If this was filmed cheaply, you can't tell by the production design. It is exquisite. This may not be the only film to parody World War II espionage, but it's one of the best I've seen in years. There's also a bathroom that anyone desperate enough to use it would get a terrific surprise, as well as other traps and twists. It's easy to compare this to "Road to Morocco", but I think it's closer to the Bob Hope comedy "They Got Me Covered". Practically every American comic did a spy comedy of this nature, but this British film is perhaps the most sophisticated with a definite subtle tongue in cheek.