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Loot

  • 19701970
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  • 1h 41m
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5.4/10
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Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, and Roy Holder in Loot (1970)
ComedyCrime
Based on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor a... Read allBased on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor and they have a coffin to spare. Then there's the gold-digger nurse and the gonad-grabber d... Read allBased on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor and they have a coffin to spare. Then there's the gold-digger nurse and the gonad-grabber detective and a host of other wonderful characters.
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
542
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
26,500
297
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    • Director
      • Silvio Narizzano
    • Writers
      • Ray Galton(screenplay)
      • Alan Simpson(screenplay)
      • Joe Orton(play)
    • Stars
      • Lee Remick
      • Richard Attenborough
      • Hywel Bennett
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    • Director
      • Silvio Narizzano
    • Writers
      • Ray Galton(screenplay)
      • Alan Simpson(screenplay)
      • Joe Orton(play)
    • Stars
      • Lee Remick
      • Richard Attenborough
      • Hywel Bennett
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    • 12User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Hywel Bennett and Roy Holder in Loot (1970)
    Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, and Roy Holder in Loot (1970)
    Lee Remick in Loot (1970)
    Hywel Bennett and Roy Holder in Loot (1970)
    Hywel Bennett and Roy Holder in Loot (1970)
    Richard Attenborough in Loot (1970)
    Lee Remick, Roy Holder, and Milo O'Shea in Loot (1970)
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    Lee Remick
    Lee Remick
    • Fay
    Richard Attenborough
    Richard Attenborough
    • Inspector Truscott
    Hywel Bennett
    Hywel Bennett
    • Dennis
    Milo O'Shea
    Milo O'Shea
    • Mr. McLeavy
    Roy Holder
    Roy Holder
    • Hal
    Dick Emery
    • Mr. Bateman
    Joe Lynch
    • Father O'Shaughnessy
    John Cater
    John Cater
    • Meadows
    Aubrey Woods
    • Undertaker
    Enid Lowe
    • W.V.A. Leader
    Andonia Katsaros
    • Policewoman
    Harold Innocent
    Harold Innocent
    • Bank Manager
    Kevin Brennan
    Kevin Brennan
    • Vicar
    Jean Marlow
    • Mrs. McLeavy
    Robert Raglan
    Robert Raglan
    • Doctor
    Hal Galili
    Hal Galili
    • Pallbearer
    Douglas Ridley
    • Pallbearer
    Adrian Correger
    • Pallbearer
    • Director
      • Silvio Narizzano
    • Writers
      • Ray Galton(screenplay)
      • Alan Simpson(screenplay)
      • Joe Orton(play)
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    • Trivia
      The character of the corrupt Inspector Truscott is generally regarded as playwright Joe Orton's revenge on the police force. He had once served a short prison sentence for defacing library books. The character was, as he conceded, also based to an extent on the notorious Detective Sergeant Harold Challenor, whom he never met, but who had been at the center of a great scandal in 1963. Challenor was found to have planted evidence to ensure a conviction in several cases, including those of innocent people. The fictitious Truscott even uses a catchphrase of Challenor's.
    • Goofs
      When the hearse that Dennis is driving goes out of control because its brakes have failed, and the other vehicles in the funeral procession accelerate to keep up, they lurch round several corners. Skid marks from previous takes are visible on each corner.
    • Quotes

      Mr. Bateman: What's this?

      Mr. McLeavy: It's a cold collation, sir.

      Mr. Bateman: It's Monday. There's always steak and kidney pudding on Monday.

      Mr. McLeavy: Mrs McLeavy *died* this morning, sir.

      Mr. Bateman: Your staff problems are not *my* concern!

      Mr. McLeavy: Unfortunately she was unable to make a pudding before she went.

      Mr. Bateman: I hope this doesn't prove to be a permanent state of affairs.

      Mr. McLeavy: Well it is for *her*, sir.

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      Referenced in Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
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      Written by Keith Mansfield

      Performed by The Keith Mansfield Orchestra

      Sung by Steve Ellis

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    7/10
    LOOT (Silvio Narizzano, 1970) ***
    From his subsequent work, this film comes closest in spirit to the director's best-regarded effort, namely GEORGY GIRL (1966); incredibly enough for such a light-hearted farce, it officially competed at the Cannes Film Festival where it vainly faced such tremendous contenders as THE GO-BETWEEN, DEATH IN VENICE, JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, TAKING OFF and WALKABOUT – albeit all being released in 1971! The film was also the second play (which, for the record, was staged locally not too long ago) by the controversial if short-lived Joe Orton to be turned into a movie after ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE, released earlier that same year and which – like Stephen Frears' biopic of Orton, PRICK UP YOUR EARS (1987) with Gary Oldman and Alfred Molina – I also own but have yet to watch (the latter on the strength of LOOT itself!).

    Anyway, to get back to the film at hand, the central casting is certainly splendid: Richard Attenborough's character may be a caricature but he is undeniably funny (his Scotland Yard Inspector poses as an officer from the water board and whose professed integrity proves as much a sham as his act); Lee Remick is served with a sluttish role (as a go-getting and husband-killing nurse!) that actually takes the actress back to her debut in Elia Kazan's A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957): I do not know how she ended up in Britain just then (being reteamed with Attenborough soon afterwards for the Iris Murdoch adaptation A SEVERED HEAD {1970}), but it is safe to assume that she would never have been involved in anything this crude in Hollywood!; Hywel Bennett was fashionable for a brief period (this, in fact, came towards the end of his heyday) but he is terrific as the delusional – as much about romance as get-rich-quick schemes – morgue attendant who conducts his escapades inside a hearse!; Roy Holder's name was unknown to me but he is delightful as the effeminate half of the bungling criminal duo (calling his partner "baby" and who repeatedly gets them convicted because he has a compulsion for telling the truth!) – he also comes up with the film's funniest line, describing his 'close' relationship with his mother's corpse "a Freudian nightmare" (the couple stash the money from a bank robbery in her coffin, while the body is constantly turning up at the most inopportune moments!); Milo O'Shea, another familiar face from this era thanks to his lead role in the movie version of yet one more classic source i.e. James Joyce's ULYSSES (1967), is Holder's flustered father who also drools over Remick (she, in turn, has already eyed him for her next victim!).

    Perhaps the wildest idea here is having the criminals undertake the robbery in their birthday suits, so as not leave 'forensic' traces; the comic highlight, then, is a funeral procession that develops into a Keystone Kops-type chase(!), while its brightest touch is the adoption of a song score (not particularly outstanding but still quite nice and loud) to intermittently comment upon the silly-cum-tasteless (albeit rapid-fire) action! Interestingly, the busy finale is a combination of morality (characters owing up to a deed they are innocent of so as to make amends for past mistakes), cynicism (the fact that one cannot even trust authority figures anymore) and a curious 'honor-among-thieves' attitude (Bennett not only gets the girl after all but there is every reason to believe that, with Remick along for the ride, the gang's exploits can only get better and grander still!). By the way, I may be wrong but the film's manic style would seem to have anticipated some of the more stylized episodes in the long-running (and beloved) "Fantozzi" series from Italy!
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    • Release date
      • December 31, 1970 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Die größten Gauner weit und breit
    • Filming locations
      • West Pier, Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Performing Arts
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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