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Release year: 1960

Storyline

Ill-advised by his pal Mike Haney, chem teacher David Wilson falsely claims to be an undercover FBI agent to hide his infidelity. His jealous wife Ann swallows this lie, but it gets him in trouble with the real FBI, the CIA, and the KGB.

Top credits

Directors

George Sidney

Writers

Norman Krasna

Cast

Tony Curtis — David Wilson
Dean Martin — Michael Haney
Janet Leigh — Ann Wilson
James Whitmore — Harry Powell

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Did you know

• Certain elements of the plot resemble True Lies, in which Jamie Lee Curtis becomes involved with government agents without knowing her husband is really a spy. In this movie, Janet Leigh becomes involved with government agents while thinking her husband (Tony Curtis) works for the FBI, even though he doesn't. Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.

• Lifelong friends Tony Curtis (David Wilson) and Larry Storch (Orenov) were US Navy shipmates on the submarine tender USS Proteus during World War II and watched the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay through binoculars, some 300 yards away.

• The filming of this almost-two-hour movie took just 27 days. George Sidney claimed he was given a 40-day schedule by Columbia and had suggested to them that he could do it in just ten; they were shocked by the suggestion that a big-budget 'A' picture with important stars could be done so short a time, and Sidney compromised by doing it in 27 days, saying that doing things fast added to the fun.