
The Best House in London
From top to bottom ... it's the best place in town!
Jan. 01, 1969
01:45:00
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Overview:
British comedy set in Victorian London. Worried about the increase in street prostitution, the Government come up with the "French System" - an upmarket government-sanctioned brothel. However the public, and the police, aren't informed about their little secret.
Description
Don’t tell our beloved Queen Victoria, but prostitutes throng the streets of London, blocking access to tradesmen’s shops. What to do? Her Majesty’s Home Secretary has an idea: open an opulent government-run brothel and sweep the competition off the thoroughfares. Filmed with a naughty wink-wink during the Swinging Sixties, this spirited romp sets reformers, rakes and officials colliding and colluding in a buoyant plot that starts with a brawl at a League of Social Purity march and ends in a brothel housed in a Jules Verne-esque airship. Along the way, portrayals of Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dr. David Livingston, Lord Tennyson and more Victorian luminaries add to the fun. David Hemmings (Blow-Up) plays dual roles: an earnest supporter of a home for wayward girls and the scheming manager of the official brothel. And George Sanders (All About Eve) is perfectly pompous as an aging roué.
Director:
Philip Saville
Writer:
Denis Norden
Cast: Joanna Pettet Queenie Watts Marianne Stone Ferdy Mayne Margaret Nolan David Hemmings William Rushton George Sanders Penny Spencer Warren Mitchell Milton Reid Avril Angers Jan Holden Charles Lloyd Pack John Bird Maurice Denham Arnold Diamond Hugh Burden Dany Robin Bill Fraser John Cleese Martita Hunt Veronica Carlson Betty Marsden Peter Jeffrey Thorley Walters Tessie O'Shea Clement Freud Carol Friday Eric Barker Joe Lynch William Mervyn Jessie Robins