You have a British agent demanding that the heroine takes off her clothes You have a Nazi demanding that the heroine takes her clothes off. Okay, so maybe in more whimsical hands, this may have been far less creepy, but as it is, this film really gave me the skeevies. BUT, the switch doesn’t happen and the real Sidney Royce jets off to Lisbon to take up her new position under cranky boss, Kenneth Harper, played by Ray Milland.Īll of a sudden, Sidney finds herself besieged and pestered by Allied and Nazi forces, who all want to see if the torpedo plans are tattooed on her back! That is the actual plot of this film that someone made.
So this female spy, whose name is Rita, then plans to swap places with a journalist named Sidney Royce (Paulette Goddard), who’s due to be the Morning Herald’s newest Lisbon correspondent. Yes, I actually did just say that sentence out loud. A gang of criminals steal the plans for a new type of torpedo and tattoo the plans onto the back of a female spy using invisible ink. I love Roland Young, but by heavens he has dented his appeal by being in this Pork Knuckle of a movie! It also has Roland Young to offer, and that’s an offer I would normally never hesitate to take advantage of. It has Paulette Goddard to offer, which is obviously a great offer. And it pains me to be so negative up front, because on the surface this film has a lot to offer. The first one is called The Lady Has Plans from 1942, and it’s quite the car-wreck, but I do feel like I need to tell you all about it because it may save one of you fine people from watching it. Yes, as the world buzzes around outside my window, I thought the most sensible thing to do this week would be not join the hubbub of tourists and Instagrammers currently flowing like water across the famous Charles Bridge (mere yards from my door!), nor go off in search of the famous Czech Pork Knuckle (seriously) or the ubiquitous Chimney Cake (even more seriously), and tell you guys instead about two movies I watched. Well hello to you, all the way from Prague!
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