Crook's Tour

Crook's Tour
Directed by	John Baxter
Produced by	John Corfield
Written by	Barbara K. Emary Max Kester John Watt
Starring	Basil Radford Naunton Wayne Greta Gynt Abraham Sofaer Charles Oliver
Music by	Kennedy Russell
Cinematography	James Wilson
Edited by	Michael C. Chorlton
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors
Release dates	24 May 1941 (1941-05-24) (U.S.)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Crook's Tour is a 1941 British film directed by John Baxter featuring Charters and Caldicott. It is adapted from a BBC radio serials of the same name.

Plot

Charters (Basil Radford) and Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Baghdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo (Greta Gynt) which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.

Cast

• Basil Radford as Charters
• Naunton Wayne as Caldicott
• Greta Gynt as La Palermo
• Abraham Sofaer as Ali
• Charles Oliver as Sheik
• Gordon McLeod as Rossenger
• Bernard Rebel as Klacken
• Cyril Gardiner as K.7.
• Morris Harvey as Waiter
• Noel Hood as Edith Charters
• Leo de Pokorny as Hotel Manager

Availability

The film is available as a supplement on the The Lady Vanishes Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray.

External links

• Crook's Tour at AllMovie
• Crook's Tour at IMDb
• Crook's Tour at the TCM Movie Database