The Spy's Wife is a 1971 British short crime film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Ann Lynn, Dorothy Tutin, Tom Bell, Vladek Sheybal and Julian Holloway.[1][2] It was written by Holloway and O'Hara.

Plot

Tom Tyler leaves London bound for a spying mission for Prague, and warns his wife Hilda that their apartment may be bugged. A man arrives at the apartment and helps Hilda search for bugs. Elsewhere, Tom is in bed with his contact Grace. As she turns the photograph of her husband – the man in Tom and Hilda's apartment – to the wall, a hidden microphone is revealed.

Cast

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A formal and rather disappointing exercise from Gerry O'Hara, The Spy's Wife gives the impression of a three-minute revue sketch, padding out a conventional charade of musical beds with some subdued gimmickry along James Bond lines. The enigma of whether the husband is or is not a spy quickly loses its appeal; and though the principle roles are expertly played, the only chilling moment of mystery occurs when Hilda's sinister-looking mother pulls some glasses which she claims to have bought at Casa Pupo out of a Habitat bag."[3]

References

  1. ^ "The Spy's Wife". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
  2. ^ "The Spy's Wife (1971)". BFI. Archived from the original on 30 December 2018.
  3. ^ "The Spy's Wife". The Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 39, no. 456. 1 January 1972. p. 39. ProQuest 1305836088 – via ProQuest.
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