Crook's Tour
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| Crook's Tour | |
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| Directed by | John Baxter |
| Produced by | John Corfield |
| Written by | Barbara K. Emary Max Kester John Watt |
| Starring | Basil Radford Naunton Wayne Greta Gynt Abraham Sofaer Charles Oliver |
| Music by | Kennedy Russell |
| Cinematography | James Wilson |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors |
| Release date(s) |  May 24, 1941 |
| Running time | . |
| Language | English |
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Crook's Tour is a 1941 British film directed by John Baxter featuring Charters and Caldicott. It is adapted from a BBC radio serials of the same name.
[edit] Plot
Charters (Basil Radford) and Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) 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 (Greta Gynt) 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.
[edit] Availability
The film is available as a supplement on the The Lady Vanishes Criterion Collection DVD.
