Otley (film)

Otley (film)
Directed by	Dick Clement
Written by	Dick Clement
Starring	Tom Courtenay Romy Schneider
Release dates	1968
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Otley is a 1968 British comedy thriller film. Film critic Judith Crist described it as "a bright, breezy, light-handed but never lightheaded spies-and-counterspies story."^[1]

Outline

Tom Courtenay plays Gerald Arthur Otley, a hapless light-fingered and womanizing antiques dealer who "suddenly finds himself caught up in a round of murder, espionage and quadruple crossing."^[1] Otley is mistaken for a spy; a real spy (Romy Schneider) falls in love with him.

The action takes place in a houseboat colony on the Thames and the Playboy and health clubs and a golf course in London. One scene depicts an explosion in the Notting Hill Gate tube station; a driving test turns into a car chase involving a Vauxhall Viva and a Ford Zephyr (or Zodiac).

The film marked the directorial debut of Dick Clement.^[1] It was adapted by Clement and Ian La Frenais from a book by Martin Waddell, and made at Shepperton Studios.

Cast

Tom Courtenay as Gerald Arthur Otley
Romy Schneider as Imogen
Alan Badel as Sir Alex Hadrian
James Villiers as Hendrickson
Leonard Rossiter as Johnson
Freddie Jones as Philip Proudfoot
Fiona Lewis as Lin
James Bolam as Albert
James Cossins as Geffcock
James Maxwell as Rollo
Edward Hardwicke as Lambert
Ronald Lacey as Curtis
Phyllida Law as Jean
Geoffrey Bayldon as Inspector Hewett
Frank Middlemass as Bruce

References

1 2 3 Crist, Judith. This Week's Movies. TV Guide, North Carolina Edition, 9–15 December 1972, pg A-4

External links

Otley at the Internet Movie Database

Works by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais

Sitcoms	The Likely Lads (1964–66) Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973–74) Porridge (1974–77) Thick as Thieves (1974) Going Straight (1978) Tracey Takes On... (1996–99) Parents of the Band (2008–09)

Other series	Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983–2004) Lovejoy (1986–94) Archangel (2005) The Rotters' Club (2005)

Films	The Jokers (1967) Otley (1968) To Catch a Spy (1971) Villain (1971) The Likely Lads (1976) Porridge (1979) The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) Never Say Never Again (1983) Water (1985) The Commitments (1991) Excess Baggage (1997) Still Crazy (1998) Honest (2000) Goal! (2005) Flushed Away (2006) Across the Universe (2007) The Bank Job (2008) Killing Bono (2011) Bunyan and Babe (2016)

Theatre work	Billy (1974)

As script editors	Astronauts (1981–82)

Other film work	Bullshot (1983) Vice Versa (1988)

Clement alone	Anyone for Denis? (director, 1982)

La Frenais alone	Percy's Progress (film, 1971) My Old Man (with others, 1974–75) The Other 'Arf (with others, 1980–84) Spender (with others, 1991–93)

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