Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys except two brothers whose determination to outlast each other provides the plot for the next two hours. The absurdity and delicious macabre blend of this premise might have made a first-rate English film. What results, however, is a superficial humorless mishmash of plotting orphan descendants, ridiculous Victorian satire, and cliche mixups...
...WRONG BOX. Survival of the fittest-Victorian style-leads members of a genteel British family to mayhem, murder and related shenanigans in an all-out effort to inherit a vast fortune...
...WRONG BOX. Bryan Forbes, who directed King Rat, is now plotting a furiously funny race to kill off one of the two surviving members of a Victorian tontine, with John Mills and Ralph Richardson at the tender mercies of their loving heirs-Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore...
...bleachers cheering as the pro-Communist pair outwit the villainous security men. The proletarian hero investigates the investigators and exposes his three persecutors as 1) the husband of a convicted shoplifter and father of a reefer-drag ging beatnik son, 2) a collector of fancy ceramics specializing in Victorian toilet bowls, and 3) a queer...
Though their playing has exquisite style, Caine and Newman merely provide teatime treats in this slice of Victorian gingerbread adapted from the classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Director Bryan Forbes (King Rat) reveals an unexpected gift for utter nonsense, using every period cliché and corny camera trick that might imaginably be fermented into vintage black comedy. Some of the gags crumble on impact, others are stretched out like taffy, but there is enough fun left over to leave most moviegoers happily wallowing in greed, sex, homicide, body snatching and other nefarious diversions...