The Trouble with Spies

The Trouble with Spies (1987)

The most bumbling secret agent ever to hold a gun.

George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery.

Date of release
1987-12-04
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Comedy, Adventure
Director
Burt Kennedy

Casting

Interesting facts

The Trouble with Spies is a 1987 spy comedy film written and directed by Burt Kennedy, and starring Donald Sutherland and Ned Beatty.

Production

The film was financed entirely by Home Box Office, the first production of the pay cable channel’s new theatrical motion picture division. the film, initially titled Trouble at the Royal Rose, was greenlit in the Spring of 1983 and the film had a $6-million budget.

Michael Caine was initially offered $1 million to play the role of Appleton Porter However, Caine turned down the role and actor Donald Sutherland took the part instead.

Based on a novel titled "Apple spy in the sky", one of several spy spoof novels featuring agent Appelton-Porter by author Marc Lovell, all of which feature apple puns, the film was originally to be titled "Trouble at the Royal Rose" (being the name of the British-run Ibiza guesthouse where Appleton-Porter puts up), but by April 1984, it was announced that the title had changed to "The Trouble with Spys", using a deliberate misspelling supposedly…

The poster illustration depicts a Volkswagen Beetle with convertible top yet the film only features the Citroën 2CV.

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