Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Director:

Leslie H. Martinson

Writers:

Dorothy Gilman (book)
Rosalind Russell (writer)

Genre:

Adventure | Comedy

Tagline:

Mrs. Polifax, The Spy Who Came Out Of The Kitchen.

Plot:

Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion...

Plot Keywords:

Spy | CIA | Mexico | Boredom | Jail

Cast

Rosalind Russell	...	Mrs. Pollifax
Darren McGavin	...	Farrell
Nehemiah Persoff	...	Berisha
Harold Gould	...	Nexdhet
Albert Paulsen	...	Perdido
John Beck	...	Lulash
Dana Elcar	...	Carstairs
James Wellman	...	Mason
Dennis Cross	...	Bishop
Nick Katurich	...	Stefan
Don Diamond	...	DeGamez
Robert Donner	...	Larrabee
Tom Hallick	...	Roger

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G | USA:G

Filming Locations:

Grand Teton National Park, Moose, Wyoming, USA

Company:

United Artists

Trivia:

Rosalind Russell's last movie.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Towards the start of the film and just after Mrs Pollifax takes up the role of a spy for the CIA, she is shown into a hotel bedroom in Mexico. The room number is 700. When she sees the room number on the door in the mirror it shows 007. Of course, if you look at the number 700 in a mirror, it doesn't reflect as 007. Obviously it was made to look that way to give the impression Mrs Pollifax was a spy like James Bond.

Movie Connections:

Version of The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999) (TV)

Here is another example of a film that is unjustly lost.

Odd but true, I missed seeing this film when it was new as I was a fairly busy man at the time. Little did I know at that time that this was to be the Roz's last major production. ........And because it was her last film, this is a shame that to my knowledge this has never seen the light of day since it first ran in theaters! What a crime, not only for Roz's fans but also to the fans of Mrs.Pollifax stories as well to be denied the pleasure of seeing the Roz in the Role of Mrs. Pollifax. So I am going to ask to whom it may concern: Please rescue the prints from the vault and put this out on DVD!! Heck, you don't even have to spend a ton of money to restore it to digital standards if you don't want to, just release it as a "budget special" for all I care!! I'd like to at least watch ANY VERSION of this before I check off for good!!!

So who cares if it isn't exactly Roz's greatest film? Who cares if this isn't the greatest filmed version of a Mrs. Pollifax story? What matters here is that this is Roz's LAST MOVIE and that alone makes it WORTH RELEASING TO DVD!!!