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Spy for a Day is a film of genre Spy directed by Mario Zampi with Jack Allen
Spy for a Day (1940)
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Add to a movie listSpy for a Day is a 1940 British comedy thriller film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Douglas Wakefield, Paddy Browne and Jack Allen. During the First World War a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
Actors
Jack Allen
(Captain Bradshaw)
Albert Lieven
(Captain Hausemann)
Gibb McLaughlin
(Colonel Ludwig)
Alf Goddard
(Sergeant Bryan)
Eliot Makeham
(Trufit)
O. B. Clarence
(Medical Officer)
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