After a series of misunderstandings, the head of an aerospace research laboratory begins to suspect that his new girlfriend is a Russian spy.After a series of misunderstandings, the head of an aerospace research laboratory begins to suspect that his new girlfriend is a Russian spy.After a series of misunderstandings, the head of an aerospace research laboratory begins to suspect that his new girlfriend is a Russian spy.
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- Julius Pritter
- (as Dom De Luise)
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- TriviaRobert Vaughn: briefly appears in his central role of "Napoleon Solo" from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) at the party, with a snatch of that show's theme music on the soundtrack. The same music is heard when Homer Cripps goes undercover in drag. Theodore Marcuse played three different guest characters on that show. Dom DeLuise appeared on the spin-off The Danish Blue Affair (1966).
- GoofsWires are visible in both scenes set in the NASA anti-gravity chamber; first on the test astronaut, and also when Jennifer accidentally enters the room.
- Quotes
Edgar Hill: I want to talk to you a minute. Those phone calls, there is no question about it. She's an agent, operating for the...
Bruce Templeton: She's no more an agent than you are! And if you're the best the CIA can come up with, this country is in big trouble!
Edgar Hill: Now, look here! We'll have to detain her.
Bruce Templeton: Mrs. Nelson can leave here whenever she wishes!
Edgar Hill: What's that noise?
Bruce Templeton: What? Oh, well, I locked her in the closet.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits: The events, characters and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual firms, is purely coincidental.
- ConnectionsEdited into Rowan & Martin at the Movies (1968)
The picture did get a Music Hall premiere run in New York, but as I say, most people just yawned.
Seen forty years later it has a lot going for it, especially compared to today's cinema "comedies": good writing, expert direction, good pacing and editing, colorful location shots of Catalina and vicinity, good playing by the leads, who look to be having fun, and really good support from that amazing cast of 60s character actors.
There is a surprising amount of frank sexuality in this picture for the time, without nudity or profanity (Doris' character is a widow so she plays her as sexually mature and sophisticated), Godfrey's character has a wife/girlfriend about whom he's absolutely crazy and shows it, often (!), and there's even a surprising gay subplot that's played for laughs of course, but not offensively so. There's even Paul Lynde in drag...priceless!
Forty years later, it still makes me laugh. You will too.
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- The Spy in Lace Panties
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- Gross US & Canada
- $9,200,000
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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