A Masterpiece!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Terry Thomas made many funny comedies in the fifties but sadly this was not one of them.A great cast including the likes of Battle Jacques and Irene Handle fail to make this film work and often resort to overacting.The blame has to attach squarely to Michael Pertwee as the situations are just not particularly funny.Just a few funny mommenfs.

Four people steal expensive fur coats and provide the proceeds from their subsequent underground sale to the needy. Terry-Thomas, Seyler, Jacques, and Duxbury are delightful as the bumbling Robin Hoods, making for an enjoyable farce. Also fine is Whitelaw, who resembles Janet Leigh, as a reformed convict. The script is uneven, however, as moments of amusement come only sporadically. A highlight is the scene where Terry-Thomas, who was a master of these types of roles, tries to find a buyer for the stolen goods and ends up at a hilariously wrong destination. On a trivia note, Seyler was by far the oldest of the four actors who play the crooks but outlived them all, living to age 101 while Jacques and Duxbury died before 60.

As another reviewer stated this story is just too unbelievable to be even funny.4 eccentric rooming house characters decide to rob furs and donate the money to charity.There is such a thing as suspending disbelief but this story requires something beyond the pale in that category. Stores with thousands worth of furs with no credible security etc...I enjoy humor that is unexpected this movie has very little of that. I did find the heavy set roommate humorous. Also, I don't like formula films that much--if you do maybe this one is OK.I don't recommend it.

A warm view of the criminal temptation as seen through the eyes of the comic displaced. Fine team performances, particularly from the female cast members, topped off by a Terry-Thomas character out of his own flawed top-drawer. A real treat for those who like their view of the British as slightly off-centre, warm and hypocritical...which is not a bad summary of the national character. Kenneth Williams in an early appearance shines as a character that he never really succeeded in developing for the screen but which points to a keen comic enjoying himself in very good company. Billie Whitelaw playing against type is also a revelation in a role that hints strongly at the type of role that she made her own in films later in the decade