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Director
  
Mario Zampi

Language
  
English

6.6/10
IMDb

Country
  
United Kingdom

Top Secret (1952 film) movie poster

Release date
  
1952

Writer
  
Jack Davies (original story), Michael Pertwee (original story), Jack Davies (screenplay), Michael Pertwee (screenplay), Jack Davies, Michael Pertwee

Top Secret is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and starring George Cole, Oskar Homolka and Nadia Gray. A sanitation inspector is mistaken for an international spy. The film was known in the U.S. as Mr Potts Goes to Moscow.

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Plot

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George Potts, a plumber in a top secret government research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George leaves for his annual holiday, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless 'sanitary engineer.' Meanwhile, the Russians get wind of the incident and intercept George, plying him with liquor and employment promises so that he'll hand over the plans to them. All the while, George never knows what the fuss is about: he thinks that the British and Soviet authorities are interested in his new plans for a modern plumbing system. The Russians offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing, he believes),and while there he falls in love with secret agent Tania, and discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying.

Main cast

  • George Cole - George Potts
  • Oskar Homolka - Zekov
  • Nadia Gray - Tania Ivanova
  • Frederick Valk - Rakov
  • Wilfrid Hyde-White - Sir Hubert Wells
  • Geoffrey Sumner - Pike
  • Ronald Adam - Barworth Controller
  • Ernest Jay - Prof. Layton
  • Edwin Styles - Barworth Superintendent
  • Richard Wattis - Barnes
  • Michael Medwin - Smedley
  • Kristina Summerfield - Cecilia
  • Irene Handl - Mrs. Tidmarsh
  • Phyllis Morris - Mrs. Tweedy
  • Charles Goldner - Gaston
  • Ina De La Haye - Madame
  • Ronnie Stevens - Aubrey
  • Olaf Pooley - Professor Roblettski
  • Kynaston Reeves - Barworth Director
  • Frederick Leister - Prime Minister
  • Henry Hewitt - Minister of Health
  • Gibb McLaughlin - Schoolmaster
  • Michael Balfour - Jersey Sailor
  • Christopher Lee - Russian Agent
  • Supporting cast

  • Walter Horsbrugh - 1st Cabinet Minister
  • Anthony Shaw - 2nd Cabinet Minister
  • Tim Turner - 1st Reporter
  • Hal Osmond - Jersey Waiter
  • Myrtle Reed - Jersey Air Hostess
  • David Hurst - Deutsch
  • Bernard Rebel - Trubiev
  • Guido Lorraine - 1st M.V.D.
  • Terence Alexander - 2nd M.V.D.
  • Richard Marner - Russian Sentry
  • Martin Boddey - Russian Security Officer
  • Gerard Heinz - Russian Director of Plant
  • Fred Berger - Russian Doctor
  • Victor Maddern - British N.C.O.
  • Reed De Rouen - 1st U.S. Soldier
  • Johnny Catcher - 2nd U.S. Soldier
  • Willoughby Gray - British Officer
  • Cameo/Uncredited cast

  • Christopher Lee - Russian Agent
  • Stanislaus Zienciakiewicz - Joseph Stalin
  • Anton Diffring - East German policeman
  • Critical reception

  • The New York Times noted, "as long as the action stays this side of the Iron Curtain, the production is enjoyable—and understandable — but once entangled with the enigma of Communist rule, the farce ends."
  • Allmovie wrote, "no one takes Top Secret seriously--certainly not Oscar Homolka, who delivers a bravura performance as a Russian secret agent who wistfully yearns for the glories of the Czarist days."
  • References

    Top Secret (1952 film) Wikipedia
    Top Secret (1952 film) IMDb Top Secret (1952 film) themoviedb.org


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