John Gielgud won an Oscar and Dudley Moore was nominated for one in this side-splitting comedy about a tiny, near-40, cosseted billionaire whose drunken, girl-laden life is menaced by a family who threaten to cut him off without a penny unless he marries a socially acceptable milk-and-water heiress. Heiress's father is a self-made homicidal maniac who will put a knife through Arthur if he doesn't sway up to the altar. So what's the poor little chap, who loves sassy shoplifter Liza Minnelli, to do? The answer makes for a comedy that gleams with wisecracks. Moore perfectly captures a state of permanent inebriation, while Gielgud plainly relishes the butler whose tongue rolls deliciously round rude insults that belie his primness.

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