When his girlfriend dumps him, the meek and mild Lionel (Craig Brown) goes to a bar, gets drunk, and passes out on the wintry walk home after a drunken vision leads him into someone's else garage. When he wakes up the next day he is confronted by the gun-toting homeowner Warren (Brian MacQuarrie), who mistakes Lionel for a mysterious master criminal named Mike with whom Warren and his wife Elsie (Anna Valentina) have signed on to conduct a burglary (without ever having met him, naturally).
There is not one character,one line of dialogue or one plot point that made me laugh.It seems that the only idea the director had was to get his cast to shout the dialogue as loud as possible so that the audience would find this funny.
Donald Sinden and Peggy Cummins are a loving couple with a lot of debts. When her aunt's will turns up, it provides her an annual income of less than 400 pounds, but the principal can be invaded for the education of children -- of which they have none -- or in the event of their divorce calling for more cash.
Here's a movie for Barbara Steele fans. Her role is not large, but it's important to the plot -- such as it is -- and she looks gorgeous!
My grandfather, Joseph A. Williams, Jr.
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