Hot Enough for June

Hot Enough for June is a 1964 British spy comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas, and featuring Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina in her English film debut, Robert Morley and Leo McKern. It is based on the 1960 novel The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson. The film was cut by twenty minutes and retitled Agent 8¾ for American release by the Walter Reade Organisation. The original promotional title was Agent 008¾. Part of a trend of spy films in the wake of the success of the James Bond series, its art director was Syd Cain, who had the same job on the first two Bond films. Koscina herself... had been considered for the role of Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love. Roger Allsop turns over some belongings to a clerk, who stows them in a drawer marked 007 before turning the identifying card over to read "deceased". Allsop and his superior, Colonel Cunliffe , then discuss the necessity to send someone to pick up something behind the Iron Curtain. Unemployed British writer Nicholas Whistler is sent by the employment exchange to be interviewed by Cunliffe, supposedly for a job as a trainee executive for a glass company.
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