''Spy for a Day'' is a 1940 British comedy thriller film directed by Mario Zampi and starring

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, Paddy Browne and Jack Allen.BFI.org
/ref> The screenplay concerns a British farmer who is abducted by the Germans during World War I.

Premise

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

Cast

as Sam Gates * Paddy Browne as Martha Clowes * Jack Allen as Captain Bradshaw * Albert Lieven as Captain Hausemann * Nicholas Hannen as Colonel Pemberton * Gibb McLaughlin as Colonel Ludwig * Allan Jeayes as Colonel Roberts * Alf Goddard as Sergeant Bryan * George Hayes as Corporal Boehme * Eliot Makeham as Trufit * Hay Petrie as Britt *

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as Medical Officer

References

External links

* 1940 films 1940s spy comedy films British comedy thriller films British spy comedy films British war comedy films World War I spy films Films directed by Mario Zampi Films with screenplays by Anatole de Grunwald British black-and-white films 1940s comedy thriller films 1940s war comedy films 1940 comedy films 1940s English-language films 1940s British films {{WWI-film-stub