Micheal Hordern's absent-minded butler is an absolute comic gem; and you have to love Michael Palin's filing-mad fiancee, and Trevor Howard's dotty old buzzard, usually to be seen writing letters about flogging and disembowling to The Times!
This is a good, very well made picture, relying on a smashing bunch of actors to deliver Mr Palin's warm and witty script. Palin is his usual likable self, and Maggie Smith is simply wonderful as the Lady of The Manor desperate to get her hands on him.
Palin's African missionary returns from 10 years in Africa to be handed a new assignment - that of saving the fallen women of the London Docklands; and of course, he ends up saving a few for himself!
Early roles for Tim Spall, David Suchet and a blink and you'll miss him Hugh Fraser - Poirot and Hastings - The Early Years! And all do well.
If it has a fault, it's the final subplot of Maggie Smith's attempt to do away with her husband. Otherwise it's a fine and happy film, well worth a look.
This is a good, very well made picture, relying on a smashing bunch of actors to deliver Mr Palin's warm and witty script. Palin is his usual likable self, and Maggie Smith is simply wonderful as the Lady of The Manor desperate to get her hands on him.
Palin's African missionary returns from 10 years in Africa to be handed a new assignment - that of saving the fallen women of the London Docklands; and of course, he ends up saving a few for himself!
Early roles for Tim Spall, David Suchet and a blink and you'll miss him Hugh Fraser - Poirot and Hastings - The Early Years! And all do well.
If it has a fault, it's the final subplot of Maggie Smith's attempt to do away with her husband. Otherwise it's a fine and happy film, well worth a look.