''Find the Lady'' is a 1976 comedy film directed by John Trent.

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, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 77. It was one of the earliest films in which

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stars. The plot involves kidnapping schemes all involving the same woman except the wrong woman gets taken and the right one runs away with her boyfriend. The film is a spin-off of the earlier film '' It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time'', which features the Kopek (

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) and Broom (

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) characters in a subplot. The cast also includes

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, Hugh Webster,

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and

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Reception

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'' wrote, "''Find the Lady'' is a numbskull number about as funny as a slice of pizza in a hat... A British-Canadian co-production, ''Find the Lady'' stumbles from one worn-out comedy chestnut to another. There is the off-key opera singer, the transvestite who complains that life is a 'drag', lots of dumb blonds, and even dumber cops."

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* * 1976 films Canadian comedy films English-language Canadian films 1976 comedy films Films directed by John Trent (director) 1970s English-language films 1970s Canadian films {{1970s-comedy-film-stub