Crook's Tour (1940)
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
- Date of release
- 1940-09-03
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (15)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Comedy, Mystery
- Director
- John Baxter
Casting
- Basil Radford — Hawtrey Charters
- Naunton Wayne — Sinclair Caldicott
- Greta Gynt — La Palermo
- Noel Hood — Edith Charters
- Charles Oliver — Sheik
- Gordon McLeod — Rossenger
- Abraham Sofaer — Ali
- Bernard Rebel — Klacken
- Cyril Gardiner — K.7.
- Leo de Pokorny — Hotel Manager
- Morris Harvey — Waiter
- Cyril Chamberlain — American (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Crook's Tour is a 1940 British comedy spy film directed by John Baxter featuring Charters and Caldicott. It was written by Barbara K. Emary, Max Kester and John Watt, adapted from the 1940 BBC radio serial of the same name.
Production
In May 1940 it was announced John Corfeld of British National had enjoyed the serial and wanted to turn it into a film. Filming took place at Elstree Studios.
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