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    • Source: Come Spy with Me (film)

      • Come Spy with Me is a 1967 American spy film produced by Arnold Kaiser, directed by Marshall Stone, and released by 20th Century Fox.
      Starring Troy Donahue and Andrea Dromm, the film features Dromm ("I'm an AGENT, not a spy!"), solving a murder case, rescuing a kidnap victim, breaking up a mastermind's (Albert Dekker) underwater bomb assassination plot of several world leaders, and dancing the new dance called "the Shark" on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles performed the film's titular theme song, written by lead singer Robinson.


      Cast


      Troy Donahue as Pete Barker
      Andrea Dromm as Jill Parsons
      Albert Dekker as Walter Ludeker
      Mart Hulswit as Larry Claymore
      Valerie Allen as Samantha
      Dan Ferrone as Augie
      Howard Schell as Corbett
      Chance Gentry as Chance
      Louis Edmonds as Gunther Stiller
      Kate Aldrich as Chris
      Pam Colbert as Pam
      Gil Pratley as Kieswetter
      Georges Shoucair as Pantin
      Alston Bair as Keefer
      Tim Moxon as Morgan
      Eric Coverley as Karl
      Jack Lewis as Brooks
      Luciene Bridou as Linda


      Production


      The film was the first produced under a 13-film co-production treaty between Allied Artists and five television stations owned by ABC.
      It was the first movie made by Troy Donahue following the end of his contract with Warner Bros. It was originally called Red on Red.
      Hot off her success for her performance in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming Andrea Dromm was recruited by the American Broadcasting Company to host a television special about the surfing craze called Hit the Surf and to play a female secret agent in the lead role of ABC Films first production. She knew the director Marshall Stone from their work together in National Airlines and Clairol "Summer Girl" television commercials. Dromm had to learn motorcycle riding and scuba diving for the film, but her underwater shots were doubled. Dromm was nervous about scuba diving and what she felt were unsafe conditions; she said that Troy Donahue got into some trouble underwater due to problems with his diving regulator. Dromm never made another film.
      The film was overshadowed by 20th Century Fox's other 1967 female spy films; Fathom with Raquel Welch and Caprice with Doris Day.


      Critical reaction


      The film was released to mostly negative reviews and was not a success. The New York Herald Tribune film review stated "The film belongs on top of sky high pile of other 'I Spy' losers" ending the review with "come die with me". The review in Variety paraphrased Dromm's National Airline commercial catchphrase "Is this any way to run an airline? You bet it is!" to "Is this any way to make a motion picture? You bet it isn't!"


      Home media


      Come Spy with Me has not been reissued by 20th Century Fox or released on home video.


      References




      External links


      Come Spy with Me at IMDb
      Come Spy with Me at the TCM Movie Database

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