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This film's leading lady, Andrea Dromm, rose to fame (very briefly) in a TV commercial, playing a sexy stewardess and coining the (very briefly) popular catchphrase "Is this any way to run an airline? You bet it is!" (The phrase was often parodied - and it was referenced in several reviews of "Come Spy With Me", in the "Is this any way to make a movie? You bet it isn't" sense. (This info is recounted in the book "Big Lou," Craig Hamrick's biography of Louis Edmonds, one of this film's stars.)
Final feature film as an actress for co-star Andrea Dromm.
This picture has never been officially released on DVD nor home-video cassette. It has predominantly been out of distribution since it was first released except for TV, cable and bootleg labels.
Author Craig Hamrick writes a fair amount about this film in his book "Big Lou: the life and career of actor Louis Edmonds." Hamrick did extensive research about Edmonds for the book, and after months of searching was able to unearth the only known copy of Come Spy With Me: a badly scratched, black-and-white, Spanish-dubbed version. (Stills were included of Hamrick's follow-up book, "The Big Lou Scrapbook.") In "Big Lou," Emdonds comments briefly, and rather dismissively, about the film - but it is one of the few published references to the practically forgotten movie. Immediately after finishing his work in the film, Edmonds returned to New York City and joined the cast of the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966) as Roger Collins.
The main title theme, "Come Spy With Me", is performed by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and it actually was a bigger hit than the movie it came from.
This picture was one of four 20th Century Fox movies featuring female spies that were released during 1966-1967. The films were Fathom (1967), Caprice (1967), Come Spy with Me (1967) and Modesty Blaise (1966).
First and final cinema movie directed by Marshall Stone.
The new dance seen in the film was called "The Shark".
One of the movies Troy Donahue made after he left the Warner Brothers studio.
Actor Louis Edmonds, who plays the villain Gunther Stiller, has said of this picture: "It was sort of a fifth-rate James Bond-type of movie, with so many pretty young girls-and boys-lounging around a swimming pool . . .It was a fun part because I was a hired assassin, and I had a German accent and carried a gun. Eventually my character was drowned by Troy [Donahue] in a grotto . . . Troy was happy. He didn't take his assignment too seriously. I mean, he wasn't playing Chekhov or Shaw. But he did all right."
Peter Finch's cameo came about as a result of bumping into the film crew while he was holidaying in Jamaica.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Troy Donahue | - | Pete Barker | |
| Andrea Dromm | - | Jill Parsons | |
| Albert Dekker | - | Walter Ludeker | |
| Mart Hulswit | - | Larry Claymore | |
| Valerie Allen | - | Samantha | |
| Dan Ferrone | - | Augie | |
| Howard Schell | - | Corbett | |
| Chance Gentry | - | Chance | |
| Louis Edmonds | - | Gunther Stiller | |
| Kate Aldrich | - | Chris | |
| Pam Colbert | - | Pam | |
| Gil Pratley | - | Kieswetter | |
| Georges Shoucair | - | Pantin | |
| Alston Bair | - | Keefer | |
| Tim Moxon | - | Morgan |
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