Spy in lace panties
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Spy in lace panties |
| Original title | The Glass Bottom Boat |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Tashlin |
| script | Everett Freeman |
| production | Everett Freeman Martin Melcher |
| music | Frank De Vol |
| camera | Leon Shamroy |
| cut | John McSweeney Junior |
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Spy in Lace Panties is a romantic comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin from 1966 and starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor .
action
Space explorer and amateur angler Bruce Templeton makes a strange catch on a fishing trip on the California coast. He suddenly has a mermaid on the line. Bruce instantly falls in love with Jennifer, who swims around in this costume to impress the tourists her father drives around in his glass-bottom boat. Now that he has ruined her costume, Jennifer is furious.
The next day, the two meet again at NASA , where Jennifer is in charge of public relations and Bruce is the head of a project called GISMO to explore and overcome gravity. In order to have her close by, Bruce makes Jennifer his biographer and invents a project called Venus .
While Bruce and Jennifer get closer and flirt with each other, the American secret service under the direction of General Bleecker suspects that Jenny is an Eastern spy. The suspicion is enhanced by the fact that Jennifer keeps talking about Vladimir , which is, however, the name of her dog.
After Jennifer overhears a phone call at a party that she has been deceived by Bruce, she goes out of her way to pretend she is a spy in revenge. The plot gains even more speed, especially when the alleged FBI agent Edgar Hill turns out to be an actual spy and steals important papers from the safe.
After a spectacular chase, it comes to a happy ending : Bruce marries Jennifer (indicated by the wedding march ) and drives off with her in a speedboat.
Remarks
A cameo has Robert Vaughn , known from then just current series Solo for Oncel : After woman has the guard Homer Cripps to better monitor the party at the home of Bruce temporarily as a disguised and looks to the bar there for a few seconds Vaughn aka Napoleon Solo. When you look again, it has disappeared.
The English alternative title is The Spy in Lace Panties .
Reviews
- Lexicon of international films : "Lively Doris Day film with tried and tested comedic means."
- "(...) a routine comedy with numerous typical Tashlin slapsticks." (Rating: 2½ stars = above average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" , 1990
- Protestant film observer : "This American wide-screen color film is typical of the genre (very careful humor), but thanks to director Frank Tashlin it also has something new to offer (slapstick elements)."
Web links
- The Glass Bottom Boat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spy in lace panties. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , pp. 766-767
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 367/1966