''The Super Secret Service'' is a 1953 British black and white short comedy film directed by Charles W. Green and starring

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and his Quartet. It was written by

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(credited as "Larry Stevens"). The film was thought lost but recovered in 2025, when it was shown on the UK TV channel

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Plot

The Super Secret Service, MI-15, is hunting the mysterious foreign spy known as "Q".

Cast

as Sir Walter Smood / Reuben J. Crouch *

as Carstairs *

as Pules *

and his Quartet *

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as King of Flanubria * Anne Levy as Miss Jones (credited as Anne Hayes) * Frank Hawkins as Inspector Plungegroin *

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as other characters * Dickie Martyn as other characters

Music

The Ray Ellington Quartet performs the song "

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Reception

Kine Weekly ''Kinematograph Weekly'', popularly known as ''Kine Weekly'', was a trade paper catering to the British film industry between 1889 and 1971. Etymology The word Kinematograph was derived from the Greek ' Kinumai ', (to move, to be in motion, to ...

'' wrote: "Crazy comedy burlesque on MI5. Its co-stars make good sport of bureaucracy and the picturesque villains of espionage and fiction, while Ray Ellington and his Quartet effectively punctuate the gags. Just the thing to tickle the industrial and provincial ninepennies. Lively British quota fill-up."

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 2385228, The Super Secret Service
Watch ''The Super Secret Service''
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