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Director
  
Jean-Charles Dudrumet

Language
  
5.4/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Country
  
France, Italy


Writer
  
Michel Cousin
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Jean-Charles Dudrumet

Release date
  
4 September 1963 (France)

The Reluctant Spy (French: L'honorable Stanislas, agent secret, Italian: Spionaggio senza frontiere, also known as How to Be a Spy Without Even Trying) is a French-Italian spy-comedy film from 1963, directed by Jean-Charles Dudrumet, written by Michel Cousin, starring Jean Marais and Geneviève Page.

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It is a parody of espionage films. It was followed by sequel Pleins feux sur Stanislas.

Plot

Stanislas Dubois is a businessman who dresses according to contemporary standards. When he meets a woman on a date in a restaurant, he's clad in a coat. Upon leaving he confuses a similar coat with his own one. Following this mix-up he becomes increasingly aware that he's got meanwhile something about him which attracts peculiar people. Hidden in his new coat is a microfilm which interests more than one secret service. Once he's already drawn into the world of international espionage, a secret service of his own country hires him to lure enemy spies into a trap, hereby serving as bait.

Cast

  • Jean Marais (Stanislas Evariste Dubois, director of an advertising agency)
  • Geneviève Page (Ursula Keller, museum guide)
  • Noël Roquevert (Inspector Mouton)
  • Gaia Germani (Andrea, the female spokesman)
  • Maurice Teynac (Alfred Thirios, the trafficker)
  • Jean Galland (Colonel Derblay, press relations officer)
  • Christian Marin (Lecanut, the secretary of Inspector Mouton)
  • Mathilde Casadessus (Maria Linas, the diva)
  • Marcelle Arnold (Miss Morin, the secretary of Stanislas)
  • Hélène Dieudonné (grandmother of Stanislas)
  • Germaine Dermoz (mother of Stanislas)
  • Yvonne Clech (the lady on the train)
  • Louis Arbessier (the museum director)
  • Robert Rollis (mailman)
  • Pierre Tornade (inspector)
  • References

    The Reluctant Spy Wikipedia


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