U.S. title: Man in the Trunk
This film's basic situation is probably inspired by a real story which happened in 1964 with a man named Mordechai Louk. There is an earlier movie -- Trunk to Cairo (1965) -- which reportedly also drew inspiration from that event.
A spy has his cover blown and takes refuge at a friendly embassy. He is put inside a trunk and smuggled out of the country under the supervision of an agent from that friendly country. He runs into several mishaps and into a beautiful woman with whom he had fallen in love just before he was exposed.
Mostly uninspired comedy which merges two main ideas: the titular one, regarding an unusual confinement and transportation, and the tale of a supposedly irresistible woman, who uses that feature to her advantage at every occasion, and thus becomes everyone's woman in the process. One plot point remains loose (or I didn't pay enough attention): was the woman really the one responsible for blowing the spy's cover? If so, how did it happen and how could they remain friends afterwards? But inquiring about such details in such a lightweight comedy is perhaps not reasonable.
Rating: 37
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