Top Secret

Top Secret

The story of the Diplomat, The Plumber and the Beautiful Spy

NR 1952 · 93 min · ★ 8.0 · Comedy

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...

Directed by Mario Zampi · Written by Michael Pertwee

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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

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