gridoon2024 Review of Catch Me a Spy

Catch Me a Spy (1971)

Meandering and unfocused, but in the end not too bad

[5/10 · 18 August 2012]

An obscure Cold War spy comedy, despite several recognizable names in the cast, "Catch Me A Spy" is meandering and unfocused for the most part, and there is an entire 20-minute segment, with Kirk Douglas and Marlene Jobert stranded at a remote and closed for the winter hotel, that just stops the movie dead in its tracks. However, the boat chase at the end is pretty good, and on the whole the film is not a bad time-filler, thanks mainly to Jobert; apart from being beautiful and having a fantastic body (or, to put it in her own character's words, "Nobody has ever complained about my legs before!"), she is also cute and charming; while it's true that her heavy French accent makes her hard to understand at times, I found it adorable just the same. ** out of 4.