The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999)
When her doctor recommends that a widow pursue her unfulfilled life ambitions, he doesn't realize that she has always wanted to be a spy. Sending a letter to her congressman gets her an interview with the CIA and accidentally gets her an assignment to Morocco for a supposed easy task of picking up an encrypted code book. When the agency realizes their mistake, they send a super-agent to watch over her. Both are taken prisoner and the real agent is injured, leaving Mrs. Pollifax to use her considerable wits to help them escape and to save the day.
- Date of release
- 1999-05-20
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Director
- Anthony Pullen Shaw
Casting
- Angela Lansbury — Emily Pollifax
- Thomas Ian Griffith — Jack Farrell
- Ed Bishop — Carstairs
- Paul Birchard — Bishop
- Michelle Read — Alice
- Tommy O'Neill — Franz
- Paul Kennedy — Hans
- Joseph Long — Aleksei Yagoda
- Gerry O'Brien — Haggarty
- John Light — Robin Hughes-Wright
- Todd Boyce — Mason
- Patricia Martin — Lady Palisibury
Interesting facts
Mrs. Emily Pollifax is the heroine of a series of spy-mystery novels by Dorothy Gilman.
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