The Intelligence Men (1965): Cast & Plot

In a busy London coffee bar, Eric Morecambe as Eric serves black coffee to a sinister-looking man who presses him to remember a tune, a request that proves futile for his famously tone-deaf ear. The moment is interrupted when Ernie Wise as Ernie Sage enters, and Eric tries to recruit him to identify the elusive melody, though the effort yields little at first.

The scene widens as Sage suspects the tune might be connected to an imminent visit by a Russian trade delegation and an assassination plot orchestrated by a shadowy group called SCHLECHT, a wry parody of SPECTRE. He reports the odd encounter to Military Intelligence, where he is treated as little more than an office-boy, yet his intuition nudges the agency toward taking the threat seriously.