- Film Review
- Reviewed By Tom Hutchinson
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4 out of 5
Dudley Moore's drunken millionaire may be outclassed by John Gielgud's disdainful butler, but he's not the dud that he might have been in this boozy variation on Jeeves and Wooster. As he tries to change his layabout lifestyle for love of blue collar, shoplifting Liza Minnelli, Moore displays the charm and timing that helped to make 10 a hit, though his dipsomaniac character is sometimes too clichéd for comfort. The ever-adaptable Gielgud delivers his lines with such wonderful aplomb that he won an Oscar, and the veteran actor was tempted back to the role seven years later for a brief appearance in the inferior sequel.
Plot Summary
Screwball comedy starring Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud. Playboy Arthur Bach spends money like water and drinks like a fish, and will flush his chances of inheritance down the drain unless he marries a respectable heiress. But, for better or for worse, Arthur falls for impoverished Linda Marolla instead.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Arthur Bach
- Dudley Moore
- Linda Marolla
- Liza Minnelli
- Hobson
- John Gielgud
- Martha Bach
- Geraldine Fitzgerald
- Susan Johnson
- Jill Eikenberry
- Burt Johnson
- Stephen Elliott
- Bitterman
- Ted Ross
- Ralph Marolla
- Barney Martin
- Stanford Bach
- Thomas Barbour
- Gloria
- Anne De Salvo
- Uncle Peter
- Maurice Copeland
- Aunt Pearl
- Justine Johnston
- Mrs Nesbitt
- Florence Tarlow
- Harriet
- Marcella Lowry
- Perry
- John Bentley
- Preston
- Peter Evans
Crew
- Director
- Steve Gordon
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