# The Super Secret Service

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{{Short description|1953 British film by Charles W. Green}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Super Secret Service
| image          = The_Super_Secret_Service_film_Opening_titles_(1953).jpg
| caption        = 
| director       = Charles W. Green
| story          = 
| producer       = John H. Robertson
| writer         = 
| screenplay     = [Spike Milligan](/source/Spike_Milligan)<br />[Larry Stephens](/source/Larry_Stephens) (credited as Larry Stevens)
| editing        = Bob Rymer
| music          = 
| starring       = [Peter Sellers](/source/Peter_Sellers)<br />[Graham Stark](/source/Graham_Stark)<br />[Dick Emery](/source/Dick_Emery)<br />Anne Hayes<br>[Raymond Francis](/source/Raymond_Francis)<br>Frank Hawkins<br>[Bryan Johnson](/source/Bryan_Johnson_(singer))
| cinematography = Bunny Onions
| studio         = New Realm
| distributor    = [Butcher's Film Service](/source/Butcher's_Film_Service)
| released       = {{film date|df=y|1953}}
| runtime        = 23 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = 
}}

'''''The Super Secret Service''''' is a 1953 British black and white short comedy film directed by Charles W. Green and starring [Peter Sellers](/source/Peter_Sellers), [Graham Stark](/source/Graham_Stark), [Dick Emery](/source/Dick_Emery) and [Ray Ellington](/source/Ray_Ellington) and his Quartet.<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web|title=The Super Secret Service|url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150294989|access-date=16 May 2025|website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> It was written by [Spike Milligan](/source/Spike_Milligan) and [Larry Stephens](/source/Larry_Stephens) (credited as "Larry Stevens").

The film was thought lost but recovered in 2025, when it was shown on the UK TV channel [Talking Pictures TV](/source/Talking_Pictures_TV).<ref>{{Cite web |title=TPTV Schedule May 12th to May 18th 2025 |url=https://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/12.05-18.05.pdf |access-date=16 May 2025 |website=[Talking Pictures TV](/source/Talking_Pictures_TV)}}</ref>

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

==Cast==
* [Peter Sellers](/source/Peter_Sellers) as Sir Walter Smood / Reuben J. Crouch
* [Graham Stark](/source/Graham_Stark) as Carstairs
* [Dick Emery](/source/Dick_Emery) as Pules
* [Ray Ellington](/source/Ray_Ellington) and his Quartet
* [Raymond Francis](/source/Raymond_Francis) as King of Flanubria
* Anne Levy as Miss Jones (credited as Anne Hayes)
* Frank Hawkins as Inspector Plungegroin
* [Bryan Johnson](/source/Bryan_Johnson_(singer)) as other characters
* Dickie Martyn as other characters

== Music ==
The Ray Ellington Quartet performs the song "[Teddy Bears' Picnic](/source/Teddy_Bears'_Picnic)" ([Bratton](/source/John_Walter_Bratton)/[Kennedy](/source/Jimmy_Kennedy)).

==Reception ==
''[Kine Weekly](/source/Kine_Weekly)'' 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."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=27 August 1953 |title=The Super Secret Service |volume=437 |issue=2409 |pages=23 |id={{ProQuest|2738578765}} |magazine=[Kine Weekly](/source/Kine_Weekly)}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|2385228|The Super Secret Service}}
* [https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/product/tpmov05012-6371269784112 Watch ''The Super Secret Service''] at [TPTV Encore](/source/TPTV_Encore)

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Category:1953 films
Category:British black-and-white films
Category:1953 English-language films
Category:1953 British films
Category:British comedy films
Category:Peter Sellers
Category:English-language comedy films

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