During the Cold War, John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna) crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz (Sir Peter Ustinov), soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his countrys football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson (Shirley MacLaine), and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.
1965
HD
96min
United States
English
J. Lee Thompson
Shirley MacLaine
Peter Ustinov
Patrick Adiarte
Fred Clark
Scott Brady
Harry Morgan
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Jim Backus
Richard Crenna
cold war
soviet union
american football
cheerleading
harem
espionage
middle east
falling in love
airplane crash
belly dancing
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