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Bookmark this pageMrs Pollifax – Spy (1970)
Director: Leslie Martinson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Witless, worthless spy comedy about a middle-aged matron's enlistment in the CIA. Martinson, a long-time TV series toiler who'd provided the drive-in market in the '50s with such treats as Hot Rod Girl and Hot Rod Rumble, had recently had his head turned by the unaccustomed success of the big-screen Batman and similar spy-spoof material in the Raquel Welch-starring Fathom. Ros Russell, pseudonymously scripting as well as starring, was old enough to have known better, but did the honourable thing and retired immediately after.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Leslie Martinson
Producer: Frederick Brisson
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Darren McGavin, Nehemiah Persoff, Harold Gould, Albert Paulsen, John Beck, Dana Elcar full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 110 mins
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