The Glass Bottom Boat

Spy in Lace Panties is a romantic comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin in 1966 with the main actors Doris Day and Rod Taylor.

Action

In a fishing trip on the California coast of space scientists and amateur angler Bruce Templeton makes a strange catching. He suddenly has a mermaid on the hook. Bruce falls in love with Jennifer, who swims around in this costume to impress the tourists driving around her father in a glass bottom boat. Since he has now ruined her costume, Jennifer is beside himself with rage.

The next day, the two meet again at NASA, where Jennifer takes care of the public relations and Bruce the director of a project called GISMO for the exploration and conquest of gravity is. In order to have her near him, Bruce Jennifer makes her his biographer and invents a project named Venus.

While Bruce and Jennifer closer to each other and flirting with each other, the American intelligence suspected under the direction of General Bleecker that Jenny is a Ostspionin. The suspicion is favored by the fact that Jennifer always speaks of Vladimir, but this is the name of her dog.

After Jennifer has noticed by randomly listening to a telephone conversation at a party that she was deceived by Bruce, it is taking everything out of revenge, to do so, as if it were actually a spy. The story thus gains again on speed, especially as the supposed FBI agent Edgar Hill turns out to be actual spy and steals important papers from the vault.

After a spectacular chase it comes to a happy ending: Bruce married Jennifer (indicated by the wedding march ) and drives off with her in the speedboat.

Comments

A cameo, Robert Vaughn, known from then just the current series Solo for Oncel: After the security guard Homer Cripps has temporarily disguised to better monitor the party at the home of Bruce as a woman and looking to the bar, is there for a few seconds Vaughn aka Napoleon Solo to see. When re- examination, he has disappeared.

English Alternative title is The Spy in Lace Panties.

Reviews

  • Encyclopedia of the International film: " Peppy Doris Day movie with proven comedic means. "
  • "(...) Routine- like game with many typical Tashlin - slapstick. " ( Rating: 2 ½ stars = above average) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV ", 1990
1966 in film Screenplay Film score Dick Martin (comedian) Glass-bottom boat Cameo appearance
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