Mrs. Pollifax-Spy

Mrs. Pollifax-Spy
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Written by Dorothy Gilman (novel)
C. A. McKnight (screenplay)
Starring Rosalind Russell
Music by Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography Joseph Biroc
Edited by Fred Bohanan
Gene Milford
Distributed by United Artists
Release dates
12 May 1971
Running time
110 min.
Country United States
Language English

Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971) is a comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Rosalind Russell and Darren McGavin, and released by United Artists. This was Russell's last theatrical film role, with one TV movie in 1972. Russell adapted the novel The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, written by Dorothy Gilman under the pseudonym C. A. McKnight.[1]

Plot

Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department 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 then done. The film's tagline summizes the person of Pollifax: 'Before she joined the CIA, Mrs. Pollifax thought Red China was a set of dishes'.

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