Credited cast: | |||
Tony Curtis | ... | David Wilson | |
Dean Martin | ... | Michael Haney | |
Janet Leigh | ... | Ann Wilson | |
James Whitmore | ... | Harry Powell | |
John McIntire | ... | Bob Doyle | |
Barbara Nichols | ... | Gloria Coogle | |
Larry Keating | ... | Parker | |
Larry Storch | ... | Orenov | |
Simon Oakland | ... | Belka | |
Joi Lansing | ... | Florence Coogle | |
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Barbara Hines | ... | Foreign Exchange Student |
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Marion Javits | ... | Miss Mellish |
Mike Lane | ... | Glinka (as Michael Lane) | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Pamela Curran |
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and later real FBI agents and enemy spies become involved in the scheme. Written by alfiehitchie
When Janet Leigh interrupts assistant chemistry professor husband Tony Curtis at work she finds him in the arms of a female student ,and promptly sets about leaving him and petitioning for divorce .He turns in desperation to his friend -a TV scriptwriter played by Dean Martin.Together they concoct a story that he is an FBI agent whose romantic activity was all in the line of duty .Somewhat implausibly she believes the far fetched tale and the marriage is once again set fair.Or it would be but for unexpected complications--the real FBI are not amused by the deception;Martin siezes upon the deception as a cover for his serial womanising and some foreign spies believe Curtis and Martin may have secrets they can use.It builds to a frantic climax deep in the bowels of the Empire State Building, The movie has pace and this is what sustains interest for the script is pretty feeble -thin to the point of anorexia.The movie zips along briskly enough to paper over the cracks in the script and while rarely laugh out loud this is a genial and engaging comedy very much of its period in its attitudes to women who are here confined to domesticity and looking good.
Strong performances all round with James Whitmore especially good as an ulcer ridden FBI man and John mcIntyre as his superior.