Complete credited cast: | |||
Terry-Thomas | ... | Major Rayne | |
Athene Seyler | ... | Dame Beatrice | |
Hattie Jacques | ... | Nanette Parry | |
Billie Whitelaw | ... | Lily | |
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Elspeth Duxbury | ... | Pinkie |
Jack Hedley | ... | Jim Benham | |
Raymond Huntley | ... | Inspector Pape | |
Kenneth Williams | ... | Freddie Warrington | |
Noel Purcell | ... | Burglar | |
Irene Handl | ... | Madame Spolinski | |
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Sydney Tafler | ... | Spanager |
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Joan Heal | ... | Mrs. Spanager |
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Penny Morrell | ... | Gertrude |
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Freddie Frinton | ... | Drunk |
Michael Balfour | ... | Rowson's Butler |
Zany collection of misfits led by aging military man (Terry-Thomas) go on a spree of robbing mink coats. An unlikely trio of women (Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, and Elspeth Duxbury) find new reasons to live ... until their housekeeper (Billie Whitelaw), an ex-con is suspected of the robberies. Written by Ed Lorusso <elorusso@techreps.com>
Oddball British humor is as quirky as it gets in MAKE MINE MINK about a former military man (TERRY-THOMAS) who organizes an unlikely band of fur thieves in order to help fund an orphanage. It's screwball farce on the highest level, as only the British could do in the '60s about seniors in a rooming house who decide to spice up their lives by joining a robbery plan that goes awry.
Within a half-hour of various pranks involving a discarded mink coat, the eccentric roomers of a London boarding house decide to go in on a scheme of stealing fur coats to fund their favorite charity. A sub-plot develops involving BILLIE WHITELAW and a young policeman. She's reluctant to become his sweetheart because she has a police record and it could hurt his career. He scoffs at the idea. She, of course, knows nothing about the roomers' plans.
The plot deals amusingly with all of the bungled fur robberies and the interplay between the eccentric boarding house characters who adopt different disguises for every robbery. One of the most amusing sequences has Terry-Thomas believing he's stumbled upon a den of thieves and fences so he can sell some of the stolen goods--until he realizes the patrons are all members of the Salvation Army.
The fun is in the role playing and the clever script. It's played to the hilt by an ingratiating cast and ends on an ironic note after the burglar ring has sworn that they've committed their last crime.
Summing up: Mindless fun all the way.