Top Secret (1952 film)
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Top Secret is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Mario Zampi
and starring George Cole, Oskar Homolka and Nadia Gray
. A sanitation inspector is mistaken for an international spy.
Mario Zampi
Mario Zampi was a film producer and director. A co-founder of Two Cities Films, he is most closely associated with British comedies of the 1950s....
and starring George Cole, Oskar Homolka and Nadia Gray
Nadia Gray
Nadia Gray was a Romanian-born film actress.Born Nadia Kujnir-Herescu in Bucharest, she left Romania for Paris in the late 1940s to escape the Communist takeover after World War II. Her film debut was in L'Inconnu d'un soirin 1949...
. A sanitation inspector is mistaken for an international spy.
Cast
- George Cole - George Potts
- Oskar Homolka - Zekov
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- Minor role