However, before she can take action they both end up being abducted by enemy agents, only escaping in the Scottish countryside. When Andrej the Bucharest waiter remerges, having been caught rummaging through her room and demanding she hand over a microfilm that he inserted into her luggage when he had her drugged in Bucharest, she decides he will be the ideal person to exchange. She manages to trap a man in a trench coat who has been following her all day, only for him to prove to be an incompetent British agent ordered to trail her for her own security by his chiefs. The exchange in Germany goes wrong, however, when during the handover the Soviet spy - laden down with capitalist consumer goods from the West - sinks through the ice and drowns.Īs the British now have nobody to exchange for her husband, Fabienne sets out to capture an enemy agent on her own initiative. Unbeknownst to Fabienne her husband, a corrupt businessman, is in league with the Soviet intelligence and has married her on their instructions. He explains that they have deliberately arrested her husband in order to have a bargaining chip to exchange for a top Soviet agent who has recently been unmasked by the British. She intends to head to Moscow to try and help him, but instead is drugged and sent on a plane back to England by a seemingly suspicious waiter.īack in London she lobbies her uncle, the shadow Shadow Foreign Secretary and his friend the head of British Intelligence, to help get her husband back. Her husband is arrested by secret police and soon turns out to have been detained by Soviet intelligence as a spy. It was also released as Catch Me a Spy and Keep Your Fingers Crossed.įabienne, a young French-born British schoolteacher marries and heads to Bucharest in the Eastern Bloc for their honeymoon.

It was also part filmed on Loch Awe and Loch Etive, Scotland, where the gunboat scenes were filmed, and featured Kirk Douglas running through a herd of Highland cattle which were owned by David Fellowes. It was a co-production between Britain, the United States and France, which was filmed in Bucharest, Romania. The story is based on the 1969 novel Catch Me a Spy by George Marton and Tibor Méray. It was written by Clement and Ian La Frenais.

To Catch a Spy is a 1971 comedy spy film directed by Dick Clement and starring Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard, Richard Pearson, Garfield Morgan, Angharad Rees and Robert Raglan.

Keeping the Spy by Victoria Pinder