The Great Spy Chase

The Great Spy Chase

RUN...love takes you where the spies are...PURSUE...women who are curved like weapons...Hide...with the one you seek...and the sparks fly upward...

1964 · 108 min · ★ 6.9 · Comedy, Action, Thriller

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.

Directed by Georges Lautner · Written by Albert Simonin

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