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NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A ne'er-do-well aristocrat (Denholm Elliott) tutors an ambitious junior clerk (Alan Bates) who yearns for Establishment status in Director Clive Donner's black comedy about hoary old England...
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. In this cheeky, stylish, often mordantly funny variation on Room at the Top, an aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) teaches a lowly British clerk (Alan Bates) how to attain Establishment status...
Bates begins as a lowly clerk in an upper-U firm of London property agents. En route to a partnership and a Westminster Abbey wedding with the boss's daughter (Millicent Martin), he hires an aging, aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) to guide him through a whirlwind curriculum of fashionable prejudices. "Say 'bloody' a lot," counsels Elliott. "Know a few dirty jokes about the Caesars." When tutor and pupil take aim at the Establishment in a series of daft vignettes-playing squash, touring Cambridge, or off on a jolly shoot-Nothing but the Best looks and sounds like...
Donald is the disaffected younger son of the land-rich, tax-poor Rodingham clan. His elder brother (Denholm Elliott), an elegant spendthrift who likes to know where his next cobwebby bottle of wine is coming from, plans to sell the 500-year-old family mansion. The buyer (Torin Thatcher) is an upstart real estate operator who likes to tromp on the middle of other people's sentences. But he has a couth and cultured wife (Kim Hunter) who likes to write. Donald writes too and, with a short story contest in view, he helps her work out the mechanics...
...hero is a young British airman (Denholm Elliott), on holiday in Spain, who sees a runaway truck miss a pretty girl by inches, smells a rat, sets up as a private nose, and, like a questing Quixote with a paunchy Panza (Peter Lorre) at his heels, sets out to rescue his damsel in distress. In the course of the hero's aro-mantic maunderings, the customer gets quite an eyeful of Spain: the Alhambra, the Alcazaba, the Cathedral at Malaga, the bullfights at Pamplona. He also gets a snootful: apples, peaches, brandy, wine, tobacco, shoe polish, peppermint, roses, garlic...