Hot Enough for June

A faster pace from director Ralph Thomas and a few more red herrings and surprise situations could have worked wonders in lifting this amiable enough spoof of espionage into a top league comedy-thriller.

A faster pace from director Ralph Thomas and a few more red herrings and surprise situations could have worked wonders in lifting this amiable enough spoof of espionage into a top league comedy-thriller.

A faster pace from director Ralph Thomas and a few more red herrings and surprise situations could have worked wonders in lifting this amiable enough spoof of espionage into a top league comedy-thriller.

June is by no means a skit on the Bond adventures. It is simply a genial leg-pull of some of the situations which, in tougher circumstances. Bond might easily be facing. Dirk Bogarde, who plays the hero with ingratiating efficiency, is an unsuccessful writer, content to live on national assistance. When the Labour Exchange unexpectedly sends him to take up a post as a trainee junior-executive in a glassworks, Bogarde finds the combination of a good salary and useful expenses irresistible. He is assigned to visit a Czech factory and bring back a written message which he guilelessly believes to be a simple commercial job. He does not know that he is now attached to the Espionage Department of the Foreign Office.

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Most of the humor comes from witty prods at the expense of the Foreign Office and the Iron Curtain Party system. Robert Morley is superb as the boss of the department, with his old Etonian tie, benign plottings and general appearance of a well-poised walrus.

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Hot Enough for June

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  • Production: Rank. Dir Ralph Thomas; Producer Betty E. Box; Screenplay Lukas Heller; Camera Ernest Steward; Editor Alfred Roome; Music Angelo Lavagnino Art Dir Syd Cain
  • Crew: (Color) Extract of a review from 1964. Running time: 98 MIN.
  • With: Dirk Bogarde Sylva Koscina Robert Morley Leo McKern Roger Delgado John Le Mesurier

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