Keep Your Fingers Crossed (1971)
"To Catch a Spy" (original title)

Director:

Dick Clement

Writers:

Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais,

Stars:

Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard

Cast

Credited cast:
Kirk Douglas	...	Andrej
Marlène Jobert	...	Fabienne
Trevor Howard	...	Sir Trevor Dawson
Tom Courtenay	...	Baxter Clarke
Patrick Mower	...	John Fenton
Bernadette Lafont	...	Simone
Bernard Blier	...	Webb
Sacha Pitoëff	...	Stefan
Richard Pearson	...	Haldane
Garfield Morgan	...	The Husband
Angharad Rees	...	Victoria
Isabel Dean	...	Celia
Sheila Steafel	...	Woman in Elevator
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jean Gilpin	...	Ground Stewardess
Bunny May	...	Elevator Operator

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

independent film | based on novel

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

France UK USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 January 1972 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Catch Me a Spy

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company Credits

Production Co:

Capitole Films, Les Films de la Pléiade, Ludgate Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

Who Honeymoon's In Bucharest?

When the Citadel Film Series book The Films Of Kirk Douglas was first issued, To Catch A Spy had been released in Europe, but not in America. It seems to have had very limited showings on this side of the pond.

The film is a lightweight spoof of the Cold War with Marlene Joubet a French girl married to a British subject trying desperately hard to get her husband back who has been arrested for espionage. Turns out he's made a deal with the Soviets and was deliberately arrested so they could affect a prisoner exchange. When the original exchange doesn't work out due to the most hilarious sequence in the film, Joubet looks to affect her own exchange and settles on Kirk Douglas, a most mysterious Romanian who keeps showing up all the time. She has to because her uncle, a member of Parliament played by Trevor Howard can't seem to close the deal.

Some nice location shooting in several spots in Europe is the best thing this film. The players look truly bored with this project and just phone in the performances.

To Catch A Spy will never make anyone's top 10 list of best Kirk Douglas films.