The Spy's Wife

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The Spy's Wife
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Directed by Gerry O'Hara
Screenplay by Julian Holloway
Gerry O'Hara
Produced byJulian Holloway
Starring Dorothy Tutin
Tom Bell
Ann Lynn
CinematographyDudley Lovell
Edited byRichard Mason
Production
company
Eyeline Films Ltd
Release date
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Running time
28 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.

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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.

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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]

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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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