Mrs. Pollifax-Spy

Mrs. Pollifax–Spy is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Rosalind Russell and Darren McGavin, released by United Artists. Russell, under the pseudonym C. A. McKnight, adapted the novel The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman.[1] The film would be Russell's last big-screen role.

Mrs. Pollifax-Spy
Directed byLeslie H. Martinson
Written byDorothy Gilman (novel)
C. A. McKnight (screenplay)
StarringRosalind Russell
Music byLalo Schifrin
CinematographyJoseph Biroc
Edited byFred Bohanan
Gene Milford
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
12 May 1971
Running time
110 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Mrs. Emily Pollifax, a widow from New Jersey, volunteers to be a spy for the CIA, being in her own opinion, "expendable" now that the children are grown. Being just what the agency needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. She finds this easier said than done. (Per the film's tagline: "Before she joined the CIA, Mrs. Pollifax thought Red China was a set of dishes.") She is kidnapped, imprisoned in communist Albania, and must use her wits to escape.

Cast
gollark: So the watermark... only works in certain situations anyway.
gollark: I think this is one of those belief in belief things. Anyway, people can cheat and *not* record it, no?
gollark: The laws of physics/logic/etc do not forbid changing religion. You can also do the popular thing of "keeping" it but ignoring inconvenient bits.
gollark: Did you know? You are now breathing manually. That's what a thing like this would normally say, except that was actually just a distraction constructed to give some time for the cognitohazards to enter your brain. Enjoy!
gollark: The "fun" thing about is that OIR is actually served from an entirely separate part of osmarks.net and just happens to pull track info from the RSAPI because that was the best place I could find to fit it.

References
  1. "Mrs. Pollifax -- Spy (1971) - Leslie Martinson - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". Allmovie.
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