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Status
Released
Release
1952
Runtime
1h 33m
"The story of the Diplomat, The Plumber and the Beautiful Spy"
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
42 Cast Members
George Cole
George Archibald Potts
Oskar Homolka
Zekov
Nadia Gray
Tania
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Sir Hubert Wells
Richard Wattis
Barnes
Irene Handl
Mrs. Tidmarsh
Christopher Lee
Russian Agent (uncredited)
Frederick Leister
Prime Minister
Frederick Valk
Rakov
Geoffrey Sumner
Pike
Ronald Adam
Barworth Controller
Edwin Styles
Barworth Superintendent
Kynaston Reeves
Barworth Director
Ernest Jay
Professor Layton
Michael Medwin
Smedley
Henry Hewitt
Minister of Health
Walter Horsbrugh
1st Cabinet Minister
Anthony Shaw
2nd Cabinet Minister
Tim Turner
1st Reporter
Gibb McLaughlin
Schoolmaster
