Operation Snatch

Operation Snatch
Directed by	Robert Day
Produced by	Jules Buck
Written by	Alan Hackney Len Heath Paul Mills (story) John Warren
Starring	Terry-Thomas George Sanders Lionel Jeffries Jocelyn Lane
Music by	Ken Jones
Cinematography	Geoffrey Faithfull
Editing by	Bert Rule
Release date(s)	1962
Running time	87 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Operation Snatch (1962) is a British comedy film starring Terry-Thomas and George Sanders and directed by Robert Day. The story takes place in Gibraltar, and is based on a local legend: if the resident Barbary Apes were ever to leave, the British Empire would collapse. This wartime comedy has Terry-Thomas as the keeper of the apes. When one of the apes goes missing, he is required to go behind enemy lines to capture another one, or be personally responsible for the loss of the Empire.

The film includes an hilarious scene in which Terry Thomas unknowingly picks up a feather duster instead of his swagger cane as he goes in for a briefing by his CO. With the cane below the desk across his knees his nervous fingers discover his swagger cane has apparently sprouted feathers. Thomas's facial expressions run a gamut of emotions from puzzlement to fear (this has to be a court martial offence) and the scene ends with the CO gazing at a neat pile of feathers under Thomas's vacant chair.

External links

• Operation Snatch at the Internet Movie Database
• Operation Snatch at AllRovi