Historians of sixties Britain could learn a lot from this rollicking satire of high finance and property speculation from the pen of Michael Pertwee (whose younger brother Jon is one of the truly amazing cast which includes Miriam Karlin virtually reprising her TV role in 'The Rag Trade'), produced by Ealing maestro Michael Balcon's company Bryanston, made just as the bulldozing of homes to make way for offices for profit was getting under way.
Less than a year after the Cuban missile crisis (akin to the one in the Ukraine we're anxiously watching on tenterhooks right now) there comes a withering repost to America's obsession with The Commies during the Cold War when an American associate of Harry H. Corbett starts darkly to hint at the activities of "some foreign power" only for Corbett to wearily cut in "Oh gawd - not them AGAIN!!"
Less than a year after the Cuban missile crisis (akin to the one in the Ukraine we're anxiously watching on tenterhooks right now) there comes a withering repost to America's obsession with The Commies during the Cold War when an American associate of Harry H. Corbett starts darkly to hint at the activities of "some foreign power" only for Corbett to wearily cut in "Oh gawd - not them AGAIN!!"