Mrs. Pollifax-Spy

19711971
GG
1h 50min

Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Adventure Comedy

A widowed New Jerseyan woman volunteers for spy duty at the CIA, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown, and is assigned to pick up a book in Mexico City, while... Read allA widowed New Jerseyan woman volunteers for spy duty at the CIA, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown, and is assigned to pick up a book in Mexico City, while finding out that it is easier said than done.A widowed New Jerseyan woman volunteers for spy duty at the CIA, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown, and is assigned to pick up a book in Mexico City, while finding out that it is easier said than done.

Director
- Leslie H. Martinson
Writers
- Rosalind Russell(screenplay)
- Dorothy Gilman(book "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax")
Stars

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Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Rosalind Russell in Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Rosalind Russell in Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Tom Hallick in Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Rosalind Russell in Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Harold Gould and Rosalind Russell in Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Harold Gould and Rosalind Russell in Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Rosalind Russell in Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)

Director
- Leslie H. Martinson
Writers
- Rosalind Russell(screenplay)
- Dorothy Gilman(book "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax")
All cast & crew
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Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out. —Kathy Li

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Taglines
- Mrs. Pollifax, The Spy Who Came Out Of The Kitchen.
Genres
- Adventure
- Comedy
Certificate
- G
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
Final film of Rosalind Russell.

Goofs
When Mrs. Pollifax looks in the mirror at the reflection of her hotel door, the digits of her hotel room number (700) should all be mirror images, including the "7" digit, but although the digits are correctly reversed in their order (007), the "7" is NOT reversed, as its mirror image actually would be. This is presumably because the film-makers didn't want the audience to miss the allusion to James Bond's number, 007.

Crazy credits
Closing credits epilogue: Research for this film was done from a documentary picture-"The Three Faces of Communism" which was filmed in present day occupied Albania.

Alternate versions
CBS edited 28 minutes from this film for its 1975 network television premiere.

Connections
Version of The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999)

Top review

10/10

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!!!

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Release date
- February 17, 1971 (United Kingdom)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Filming locations
- Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA
Production companies
- United Artists
- Meteor Films
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Runtime
- 1h 50min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Mono

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