Where the Spies Are

Where the Spies Are - 1965 | 110mins | Comedy | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Val Guest.
Producer: Val Guest and Steven Pallos.
Script: Wolf Mankowitz, Val Guest and James Leasor. (from the James Leasor novel Passport to Oblivion)
Cinematography: Arthur Grant.
Editing: Bill Lenny.
Art Direction: John Howell.
Costume Design: Beatrice Dawson.
Makeup Department: Daphne Martin and Tony Sforzini.
Sound Department: James Shields, J.B. Smith and Cyril Swern.
Original Music: Mario Nascimbene.

The Cast

David Niven - Dr. Jason Love
Françoise Dorléac - Vikki
John Le Mesurier - MacGillivray
Cyril Cusack - Rosser
Eric Pohlmann - Farouk

Plot Synopsis

Highly derivative comic spy yarn which just about pays off, largely through it’s religious use of all the genres essentials – gadgets, crisp suits, fast cars, treacherous commies, truth serum and a plot like an airport paperback. Director Val Guest would two years later direct another Bond imitation, Casino Royale.

Security chiefs persuade country GP Dr. Love (David Niven) to go on a covert mission to the Middle East to investigate the murder of his colleague Parkington (Nigel Davenport). Love uncovers a Russian plot to remove a pro-British prince. On arriving in Beirut, he meets a sexy double agent (Francoise Derleac) who helps him thwart the enemy's dastardly plans.