Archive for February, 2012

Caprice

Doris Day plays a swinging, mod-attired agent of espionage (yes, that’s Doris Day) in this caper comedy directed by Frank Tashlin. Patricia Fowler (Day) is an industrial spy who is hired to work undercover at a cosmetics company. While posing as a low-level employee, she is to get the goods on a new formual they intend to market. However, it turns out that makeup isn’t all this firm has to sell; they’re also involved in an international drug smuggling ring, and she finds herself doing battle with other agents willing to kill to insure the flow of narcotics is unabated. Her adventures cause her to cross paths with Christopher White (Richard Harris), a fellow agent with whom Patricia is soon romantically involved, and together the couple locate the secret lab of cosmetics tycoon and evil genius Stuart Clancy (Ray Walston).

This is not one of Doris’s best films. But truly a must see for diehard Doris Fans. Full of mystery, intrigue and espionage.