The Spy's Wife

The Spy's Wife is a 1971 British short crime film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Ann Lynn, Dorothy Tutin, Tom Bell, Vladek Sheybal and Julian Holloway. It was written by Holloway and O'Hara.

Plot

Tom Tyler leaves London bound for a spying mission for Prague, and warns his wife Hilda that their apartment may be bugged. A man arrives at the apartment and helps Hilda search for bugs. Elsewhere, Tom is in bed with his contact Grace. As she turns the photograph of her husband – the man in Tom and Hilda's apartment – to the wall, a hidden microphone is revealed.

Cast

Dorothy Tutin as Hilda Tyler
Ann Lynn as Grace
Tom Bell as Tom Tyler
Vladek Sheybal as Vladek
Freda Bamford as Hilda's mother
Glenna Forster-Jones as Shirley
Janet Waldron as Elaine
Julian Holloway as man
Bunny May as driver
Shaun Curry as chauffeur

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A formal and rather disappointing exercise from Gerry O'Hara, The Spy's Wife gives the impression of a three-minute revue sketch, padding out a conventional charade of musical beds with some subdued gimmickry along James Bond lines. The enigma of whether the husband is or is not a spy quickly loses its appeal; and though the principle roles are expertly played, the only chilling moment of mystery occurs when Hilda's sinister-looking mother pulls some glasses which she claims to have bought at Casa Pupo out of a Habitat bag."