The Glass Bottom Boat

About The Glass Bottom Boat

The Glass Bottom Boat, also known as The Spy in Lace Panties, is a 1966 romantic comedy film that is also considered a film musical. The film stars Doris Day and Rod Taylor.

Axel Nordstrom (Arthur Godfrey) operates a glass-bottom boat tourist concession in the waters of California's Catalina Island. His daughter, Jennifer Nelson (Day), occasionally helps out by donning a mermaid costume and swimming under the boat for the passengers' amusement. She accidentally meets Bruce Templeton (Taylor) when Bruce's fishing hook snags her costume and he reels in her mermaid tail, leaving an irate Jennifer bobbing bottomless in water. She later discovers that Bruce is the big boss at her place of work (a NASA research lab). Bruce recognizes Jennifer and, as a ruse, hires her to be his "biographer" in an attempt to win her affections. There's one problem: the facility's security chief Homer Cripps (Paul Lynde) becomes convinced that she's a Russian spy and, to prove his suspicions, has her placed under surveillance. When Jennifer catches on to the scheme, she decides to turn the tables on the bumbling Cripps and those who believe his allegations.

This movie also stars Arthur Godfrey, John McGiver, Paul Lynde, Edward Andrews, Eric Fleming, Dom DeLuise, Elisabeth Fraser, Dick Martin, George Tobias, Alice Pearce, Ellen Corby, Dee J. Thompson, Richard Alden and an uncredited cameo by Robert Vaughn of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. fame.