Crook's Tour is a 1941 British film directed by John Baxter featuring Charters and Caldicott. It is adapted from a BBC radio serials of the same name.

Plot [link]

Charters (Basil Radford) and Caldicott (Naunton Wayne) are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo (Greta Gynt) which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.

Cast [link]

• Basil Radford as Charters
• Naunton Wayne as Caldicott
• Greta Gynt as La Palermo
• Abraham Sofaer as Ali
• Charles Oliver as Sheik
• Gordon McLeod as Rossenger
• Bernard Rebel as Klacken
• Cyril Gardiner as K.7.
• Morris Harvey as Waiter
• Noel Hood as Edith Charters
• Leo de Pokorny as Hotel Manager

Availability [link]

The film is available as a supplement on the The Lady Vanishes Criterion Collection DVD.

External links [link]

• Crook's Tour at AllRovi
• Crook's Tour at the Internet Movie Database
• Crook's Tour at the TCM Movie Database