Bryan Forbes

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project—a strategic heist—in this British classic.

In this spy comedy from director Ronald Neame, a CIA desk jockey plans to write a tell-all memoir. When his incompetent former boss finds out, a globe-spanning game of cat and mouse ensues.

Leslie Caron delivers an Oscar-nominated performance as Jane—a young, French, pregnant and unmarried woman. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion.

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.