Otley (film)
Otley is a 1968 British comedy thriller film. Film critic Judith Crist described it as "a bright, breezy, light-handed but never lightheaded spies-and-counterspies story."[1]
Outline
Tom Courtenay plays Gerald Arthur Otley, a hapless light-fingered and womanizing antiques dealer who "suddenly finds himself caught up in a round of murder, espionage and quadruple crossing."[1] Otley is mistaken for a spy; a real spy (Romy Schneider) falls in love with him.
The action takes place in a houseboat colony on the Thames and the Playboy and health clubs and a golf course in London. One scene depicts an explosion in the Notting Hill Gate tube station; a driving test turns into a car chase involving a Vauxhall Viva and a Ford Zephyr (or Zodiac).
The film marked the directorial debut of Dick Clement.[1] It was adapted by Clement and Ian Le Frenais from a book by Martin Waddell, and made at Shepperton Studios.
Cast
- Tom Courtenay as Gerald Arthur Otley
- Romy Schneider as Imogen
- Alan Badel as Sir Alex Hadrian
- James Villiers as Hendrickson
- Leonard Rossiter as Johnson
- Freddie Jones as Philip Proudfoot
- Fiona Lewis as Lin
- James Bolam as Albert
- James Cossins as Geffcock
- James Maxwell as Rollo
- Edward Hardwicke as Lambert
- Ronald Lacey as Curtis
- Phyllida Law as Jean
- Geoffrey Bayldon as Inspector Hewett
- Frank Middlemass as Bruce
References
- Otley at the Internet Movie Database
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