Another one from the 1960s that is slightly better than the previous two I posted about, which I only watched because the two main stars were Bob Monkhouse and Alfred Marks, and with those two on board you would have thought it would be a riot of fun, but alas no; besides which, I have never rated Bob Monkhouse (fantastic comedian he is, undoubtedly) as a comedy actor.
The two brothers (Marks and Monkhouse) are living on borrowed time in a dilapidated mansion with no money and neither work as they fritter away what little allowances they had. Then their grandmother dies, but instead of leaving them the house and estate they are living in/on, she leaves all to a very distant cousin French (Ooo La La) model (played by a very pretty Danish/French Anna Karina - no, I'd never heard of her either)
This leaves the two brothers with the choice of one of them marrying her or they bump her off, but she falls in love with their only staff member, a butler played by (THEN) handsome easy listening pop sensation Dennis Lotis.
Minor part for Hattie Jacques as a fashion mag reporter sent to cover the story, and small parts for Clive Dunn (playing, as always, Cpl. Jones), Graham Stark, Peter Butterworth, Hugh Lloyd and Pat Coombs, but none of them could rescue this poor excuse of a so-called comedy film.
5/10
