Miles Kendig is a veteran CIA agent who finds himself reduced to a desk job after the arrival of new boss Myerson. Refusing to take it lying down he disappears and begins to write his memoirs, threatening to lift the lid on the world’s top intelligence agencies. He soon has both the CIA and the KGB in hot pursuit but Kendig is a hard man to keep up with.

Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson are the perfect comic partnership in this classic spy caper from celebrated director Ronald Neame.

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