The Intelligence Men

1965
1h 43m

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Coffee shop manager meets agent, gets drawn into 1960s London spy world. Posing as Major Cavendish, infiltrates organization to uncover assassination plot against Russian ballerina at Covent... Read allCoffee shop manager meets agent, gets drawn into 1960s London spy world. Posing as Major Cavendish, infiltrates organization to uncover assassination plot against Russian ballerina at Covent Garden, aided by MI5 friend.Coffee shop manager meets agent, gets drawn into 1960s London spy world. Posing as Major Cavendish, infiltrates organization to uncover assassination plot against Russian ballerina at Covent Garden, aided by MI5 friend.

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Trivia
Two of the Military Intelligence operatives in the communications room are named as Green and Hills, a nod to the writers Sidney Green and Richard Hills. Sid and Dick are also the duo during Eric's espresso bar singing scene.

Goofs
During the cinema scene the position of the dead Schlect agent changes between shots.

Quotes
Eric Morecambe: [on seeing that Phillipe, who is sitting next to him, has just collapsed into his soup after being poisoned] Waiter!
Ernie Sage: Yes?
Eric Morecambe: I have a complaint to make.
Ernie Sage: What?
Eric Morecambe: There's a dead man in this soup.

Connections
Featured in Morecambe & Wise: In Their Own Words (2008)

Soundtracks
Swan Lake, Op.20
(1877) (uncredited)
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Arranged by Philip Green

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10/10

Stupid dopey and dumb, and I LOVED every minute of it.

I first saw this on the late show quite a a few years ago. I laughed so hard and loud that I woke up my wife and kids. I devoured TV Guide for the next six months until I found it on again and let the tape roll. This was long before the vhs vcrs we now have. Over the years, the tape got lost and I was heartsick. Not long ago, I found a dvd of it on Amazon.UK. It was of course PAL, Region 2. Then I found a region free, PAL and NTSC dvd player. Now several hundred dollars later, I can watch Spy Larks (British title The Intelligence Men)whenever I please, and I please often.

I see Eric was voted the funniest performer in the UK for the 20th century. Well deserved. That he is now dead is our great loss, but I have learned that he died of a heart attack while performing on stage. If God was not a comedy fan before, He is now.