A Scottish woman in her fifties, burning with patriotism, a secret agent or an avid detective between two shots of whiskey, Imogen McCarter is the heroine of seven detective novels written by Charles Exbriat between 1959 and 1975.
It was portrayed twice on television, first by Jacqueline Jefford Don’t be angry, ImogenThen Dominique Lavanant in Imogene, it was in Catherine Froth’s clothes that she appeared on the big screen in 2010’s Imogene McCarthy.
Accustomed to colorful characters (we remember Prudence Beresford from Crime is Our Business, Odette Tollemond, Pierre Dumortier in La Dilettante, or even Albert Dupontel’s mother in Le Vilain), the actress hits this spy movie parody with British humor.
In this adaptation by Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier (whose collaboration goes back to Guignols de l’info), Imogen is given a secret mission to deliver plans for a new military aircraft to her home village.
On the train that takes him back to the country, he does not know what awaits him: the machinations behind him, three ruthless Bolshevik agents, but above all, Samuel Tyler, the great love of his youth broken by a terrible secret. .
Imogen McCarter Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier with Catherine Froth, Lambert Wilson, Daniel Lebrun…
Tonight on Chérie 25 at 21:05.
Source: Allocine
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