The odd characters assembled, The MI5 officer, the big rough-cut lorry driver, the prim old maiden lady, the dry account clerk and the sex-obsessed Mediterranean waiter, all seem to be fit for a comic "mastermind robbery" story- all they need is Terry Thomas.
The bright upbeat background music indicates it's not going to get too realistic, and it doesn't, but it seems to just fall short of an open comedy. As Lustgarten implies this is all based on some real case, I'm left wondering then, just who is this Jason supposed to have been that he commits crimes with stocks and bonds, yet he has a country estate and he deals in cases of guns, hand grenades and drugs stolen from some "War Department". (Not a British designation, but an American one from WWII). If one had such items, would one really think they might sue those that tricked him over it? Would a Heroin dealer or a counterfeiter take someone to court for his stolen property?
The bright upbeat background music indicates it's not going to get too realistic, and it doesn't, but it seems to just fall short of an open comedy. As Lustgarten implies this is all based on some real case, I'm left wondering then, just who is this Jason supposed to have been that he commits crimes with stocks and bonds, yet he has a country estate and he deals in cases of guns, hand grenades and drugs stolen from some "War Department". (Not a British designation, but an American one from WWII). If one had such items, would one really think they might sue those that tricked him over it? Would a Heroin dealer or a counterfeiter take someone to court for his stolen property?