I caught most of this on a well known UK vintage film channel.
I give plot spoilers because I can't review it without doing so.
George Cole plays a plumber who is confused for an atomic scientist by the USSR.
He is kidnapped to Moscow.
In the great tradition of this sort of film he falls in love with Nadia Gray who plays a Soviet spy.
I don't know Gray well as an actor but she was an exotic beauty.
Some other reviewer on here is upset by the portrayal of British communists in this film.
Well having known a few British Stalinist I think the portrayal is fair,you Jeremy Corbyn types ,cranks as written about by George Orwell.
The portrayal of British communists as mainly middle class cranks is similar to that in High Treason another obscure British cold war film.
Oscar Homolka plays a KGB chief long before the Harry Palmer films.
One thing I especially liked about the film is trying to guess where in Britain the Soviet locations were.
I guess that Moscow airport was Speke in Liverpool.
Although this is a comedy it is clear that the USSR shown in the film is a cruel place.
I give plot spoilers because I can't review it without doing so.
George Cole plays a plumber who is confused for an atomic scientist by the USSR.
He is kidnapped to Moscow.
In the great tradition of this sort of film he falls in love with Nadia Gray who plays a Soviet spy.
I don't know Gray well as an actor but she was an exotic beauty.
Some other reviewer on here is upset by the portrayal of British communists in this film.
Well having known a few British Stalinist I think the portrayal is fair,you Jeremy Corbyn types ,cranks as written about by George Orwell.
The portrayal of British communists as mainly middle class cranks is similar to that in High Treason another obscure British cold war film.
Oscar Homolka plays a KGB chief long before the Harry Palmer films.
One thing I especially liked about the film is trying to guess where in Britain the Soviet locations were.
I guess that Moscow airport was Speke in Liverpool.
Although this is a comedy it is clear that the USSR shown in the film is a cruel place.