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Director:
Dick Clement
Writers:
Dick Clement (screenplay) and
Ian La Frenais (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
October 1968 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Gerald Otley, a petty thief and garbage rummager, wakes up one morning, after a drunken night on the town... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
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Damian Harris, Gardens Of The Night
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User Comments:
Enjoyable sub-sub-Bond adventure if you don't expect too much more (6 total)

Cast

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Tom Courtenay ... Gerald Arthur Otley
Romy Schneider ... Imogen
Alan Badel ... Sir Alex Hadrian
James Villiers ... Hendrickson
Leonard Rossiter ... Johnson
Freddie Jones ... Philip Proudfoot
Fiona Lewis ... Lin
James Bolam ... Albert
James Cossins ... Geffcock
James Maxwell ... Rollo
Edward Hardwicke ... Lambert
Ronald Lacey ... Curtis
Phyllida Law ... Jean
Geoffrey Bayldon ... Insp. Hewett
Frank Middlemass ... Bruce
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Runtime:
91 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:M | UK:A
Filming Locations:
Acton, London, England, UK more
Company:
Bruce Cohn Curtis Films Ltd. more

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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Enjoyable sub-sub-Bond adventure if you don't expect too much, 14 December 2003
8/10
Author: chrisdl_heath from Sevenoaks, Kent, England

Interesting little gem from the swinging sixties. Tom Courtney plays Otley, a down-on-his-luck antiques dealer in the Portobello Road in this comedy spy thriller.

He's kicked out of his digs after he's gone past his sell-by date in terms of the attentions of his randy landlady because he can't pay his way and is forced to go from friend to friend at a party in order to be put up for the night.

Otley manages to reel in a favour from one of his friends, but blunders into a spy plot when that friend is murdered in the flat and Otley is forced on the run. Otley has little aptitiude for anything but antiques and even this ability has to be questioned considering his circumstances.

The plot meanders continuously and is a little confusing but is of little consequence. We are not meant to focus too much on it, because the film centres on how this hapless bungler manages to squirm free from one episode to another whilst we enjoy the scenery. A high point of the film is when he goes to take his driving test which turns into a car chase with some villains around the backstreets of London.

The supporting cast contains some good character actors and includes Leonard Rossiter playing a hitman. Romy Schneider plays the femme fatale, but is curiously underused. An enjoyable 'sub-sub-Bond' adventure if you don't expect too much.

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