Luscious Zsa Zsa Gabor one-note emotes as twins in this Albert Zugsmith-produced Universal back lot B made for about a buck ninety-eight on sets left over from their old horror movies. The preposterous proceedings begin in Moscow with mistress/nurse Zsa Zsa Gabor giving Stalin’s double a lethal injection while the real deal gets his kicks having a female prisoner’s head shaved. Before he can rub the shiny dome of the shamed dame, Gabor tells him it’s time for his plastic surgery and off they go -but not before depleting the Russian treasury and absconding with a bomb. Fast forward a few years to Berlin where another Zsa enlists the aid of ex-O.S.S. agent Lex Barker (all trench-coat and cigarettes) to help her find her twin, a nurse that had disappeared behind the Iron Curtain after her plastic surgeon boss was murdered outside the Kremlin. Barker’s best friend, a one-armed spy named Mischa, does what all the countries in the world can’t do and puts the pair on Stalin’s trail. It all ends in a Greek monastery with the good and bad Gabors battling it out until one of them gets her wig yanked off.

This was unbelievably bad …but fun, sort of. International playgirl Zsa Zsa Gabor was lovely to look at but pretty untalented; she made Maria Montez’ turn as twins in another Universal outing, Robert Siodmak’s COBRA WOMAN, look like Oscar bait. The shapely lady was shown to good advantage, however, doffing her duds in silhouette behind a screen and, posing as a newlywed (which shouldn’t have been a stretch for her), modeling a frilly new nightie. Handsome Lex Barker did his deadpan duty (no stretch for him, either) and the director was publicist Russell Birdwell, the man responsible for making Jane Russell a household name in Howard Hughes’ THE OUTLAW (he coined “How would you like to tussle with Russell?”). Oddly enough, the comic book caper was co-written by DeWitt Bodeen, the writer behind CAT PEOPLE, CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE, and THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE. Go figure.