Produced by Darcy Conyers and Brian Rix. A Rix-Conyers Production.
Directed by Darcy Conyers, 'The Night We Got The Bird' is a very funny film loosely based on a Basil Thomas play called 'The Lovebirds' and adapted for the big screen by farce specialist Ray Cooney. Brian Rix plays a nervous young Brighton-based antiques expert called 'Bertie' who gets a job with crooked dealer 'Cecil' ( Ronald Shiner ), a fellow in the habit of selling the public worthless items of junk made to look like priceless antiques!
Very tame British comedy, with a host of actors who should have had a better director.
Brighton,1961 - if I could go back in time to one era in one place it would be there and then."The night we got the bird" is pure nostalgia to me,then,apart from my anachronistic delight in British farces and their doyen Sir Brian Rix.
