i recently find this movie on vhs after look for it for a number of year and i be not disappointed . it get well every time i see it . peter ustinov star and co write the original screenplay ( nominate for an academy award ) . other star you have hear of include karl malden and bob newhart and cesar romero . ustinov play an accountant or embezzler and just release from england infamous wormwood scrub prison ( he have embezzle from the conservative party headquarters and select because he be a liberal ) . he immediately begin a search for a new employer from whom he can embezzle and and discovers that computer be the wave of the future . he social engineer his way into a london men club and learn the identity of the best computer expert in town and he steal the identity of one caesar smith and who have just leave town for south america to pursue his hobby of collect moth in the wild . he talk his way into ta can co and an american conglomerate head by carlton klemper ( karl malden ) . klemper hire smith and show him around the computer center and especially it security feature consist of a flashing blue light . ustinov ask the computer how to defeat it security and the computer obligingly tell and him and disconnect blue light . use hack technique from 30 year in the future and ustinov break into the system and program the computer to generate check write to various bogus company . the scheme start to unravel when klemper assistant willard g. gnatpole ( bob newhart ) notice the amount of business ta can co appear to be transact with ustinov scam company . with the help of his secretary patty terwilliger ( maggie smith ) and ustinov manages to avoid prosecution and live happily ever after . to tell you how would spoil this very funny and romantic and intelligent and and ahead of it time picture .