The Glass Bottom Boat, also known as The Spy in Lace Panties, is a 1966 romantic comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin that is also considered a musical. It stars Doris Day and Rod Taylor.
Axel Nordstrom operates a glass-bottom boat tourist concession in the waters of California's Catalina Island. His daughter, Jennifer Nelson, occasionally helps out by donning a mermaid costume and swimming under the boat for the passengers' amusement.
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The Glass Bottom Boat, also known as The Spy in Lace Panties, is a 1966 romantic comedy film directed by Frank Tashlin that is also considered a musical. It stars Doris Day and Rod Taylor.
Axel Nordstrom operates a glass-bottom boat tourist concession in the waters of California's Catalina Island. His daughter, Jennifer Nelson, occasionally helps out by donning a mermaid costume and swimming under the boat for the passengers' amusement.
One day she accidentally meets Bruce Templeton when his fishing hook snags her costume and he reels in her mermaid tail, leaving an irate Jennifer bobbing bottomless in the water. She later discovers that Bruce is the big boss at her place of work, (a NASA research lab).
He 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 becomes convinced that she's a Russian spy and, to prove his suspicions, has Jennifer placed under surveillance....
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