A reminder that George Cole was already making us laugh 50 years ago. He and Alastair Sim are the best things in this surefire British comedy about four people who have to do things totally out of character in order to collect a large inheritance from an eccentric relative. Director Mario Zampi's deft execution of this comedy of embarrassments doesn't leave many dull moments. But he has major help from Sim, richly larger than life as a penny-dreadful novelist who must become a petty thief, Cole, as a meek cashier who must pretend to hold up his own bank, and Joyce Grenfell as a gurglingly schoolgirlish ATS officer. Audrey Hepburn sparkles briefly as a cigarette girl in one of her earliest film appearances. The top moneymaking British film of its year.

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