Crook's Tour

Crook's Tour

1940 · 81 min · ★ 6.0 · Comedy, Mystery

Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.

Directed by John Baxter

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Basil Radford Hawtrey Charters
Naunton Wayne Sinclair Caldicott
Greta Gynt La Palermo
Noel Hood Edith Charters
Charles Oliver Sheik
Gordon McLeod Rossenger
Abraham Sofaer Ali
Bernard Rebel Klacken
Cyril Gardiner K.7.
Leo de Pokorny Hotel Manager
Morris Harvey Waiter
Cyril Chamberlain American (uncredited)

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