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Director
  
John Baxter

Country
  
United Kingdom

6/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
24 May 1941 (1941-05-24) (U.S.)

Writer
  
Max Kester (original story), John Watt (original story)

Crook's Tour is a 1941 British film directed by John Baxter featuring Charters and Caldicott. It is adapted from a BBC radio serial of the same name.

Contents

Plot

Charters (Basil Radford) and Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Baghdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo (Greta Gynt) which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.

Cast

  • Basil Radford as Charters
  • Naunton Wayne as Caldicott
  • Greta Gynt as La Palermo
  • Abraham Sofaer as Ali
  • Charles Oliver as Sheik
  • Gordon McLeod as Rossenger
  • Bernard Rebel as Klacken
  • Cyril Gardiner as K.7.
  • Morris Harvey as Waiter
  • Noel Hood as Edith Charters
  • Leo de Pokorny as Hotel Manager

    • Availability

    The film is available as a supplement on the The Lady Vanishes Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray.

    References

    Crook's Tour Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Crooks Tour IMDb Crooks Tour themoviedb.org


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