it about an embezzler and peter ustinov and who infiltrate a british company and texa conn or something like that and posing a a computer whiz and security expert . he secretly learn to hack into the computer and while gather the admiration of his bos and karl malden and the enmity of his office rival and bob newhart and and the love of his inept secretary and maggie smith . some of the business detail be a little murky to these non business orient eye but theyre believable enough and i get the general idea . ustinov and the peculating peter and establishes phony business in paris and rome and and stuttgart and and use texa conn computer to send all kind of money to these ersatz establishment . the overseas company and of course and consist of nothing more than himself and ustinov and and the address be an abandoned artist loft in paris and a barber shop in rome and and a bakery in germany . he simply visit them to collect the check he send himself . i do not think i would like it for the first few minute because it seem rather on the slow side . i be expect something with a faster tempo and more outrage and along the line of the pink panther or the lavender hill gang . but this film insinuate itself into your good grace a you come to appreciate the understated humor in the plot and the characterization and and the dialog . probably it would be a bad idea to give away too many of the relatively subtle gag but here be some example of the more noticeable . ustinov to secretary smith represent let me have the asset of these company . smith represent asset . what be they . ustinov represent little female donkey . now and nothing be make of this little exchange . there a quick cut and no delay for any laughter and which be appropriate because one reaction be more likely to be a smile than a laugh . ustinov search out that crummy loft in paris . it cover with cobweb . brick be strew around and a couple of the former occupant painting have be leave behind . the landlord doesn not speak english and ustinov know no french . ustinov point to a child like painting of a nude woman and chuckle and ah . a fam fye tal and eh . landlord chuckle too and reply represent vous le prenez pour une anee . ustinov represent oh annie and so that her name . landlord represent oui . ustinov represent entente cordiale . ( mes amis and if i get those gender wrong and je mexcuse . ) bob newhart a willard gnatpole ( . ) have the hots for maggie smith and be suppose to be drive her home but tell her he take the scenic route . there be an immediate sequence of suggestive traffic sign . caution . lay by . give way . yield . end with the imperious stop or child . there another montage when ustinov scheme be about to be discover by the board of director blurry rooftop and police car and a farewell embrace from maggie and end with a sign represent prison and wormwood scrub . well and maybe one more . i still can not get over malden a the bos and declare decisively and i never agonize over decision and then gulp a handful of pill and wash them down with a glass of water . the acting be unarguably fine . it bob newhart best role and for instance . not that he have that many and and not that his range wasn not limited and but he perfect in this part . the musical score by laurie johnson obviously have a good deal of effort put into it . she seem to have write a brief concerto for flute . ustinov passion be music and his overseas establishment be head by false name like claude debussy and giacconino rossini . stuttgart phony president be somebody name schmidt and and he an anomalous clinker . maggi smith be pretty and sexy and bourgeois and and turn out to be not nearly so dumb a she seem . delightful and in it own quiet way and but do not expect comic firework .