A Ravishing Idiot (1964)

Director
Édouard Molinaro

Main cast
Brigitte Bardot; Anthony Perkins; Grégoire Aslan; Jean-Marc Tennberg; Hans Verner

Genres
Comedy

Description
In this Eduardo Molinaro Spy-Spoof, Anthony Perkins plays a Russian spy sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the help he can get from his "talented" partner Penelope Lightfeather (Bardot) as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendez-vous' while trying to avoid being caught by counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.


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