High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! To Catch a Spy is a 1971 comedy spy film directed by Dick Clement and starring Kirk Douglas, Marlène Jobert, Trevor Howard, Richard Pearson, Garfield Morgan, Angharad Rees and Robert Raglan. It was written by Clement and Ian La Frenais. It was a co-production been Britain, the United States and France, which was filmed in Bucharest, Romania. It was also released as Catch Me a Spy.A young British schoolteacher heads to the Eastern Bloc to try and locate her husband who has gone missing, and soon turns out to have been detained by Soviet intelligence as a spy.