I hesitated briefly before giving this maximum score but then could see no reason why I shouldn't. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I liked the period clips and the beautifully restaged 'period' clips at the start and felt that this progressed from it's surprisingly innovative start to it's moving and sensational finale without missing a beat. Jason Robards is as good as I've ever seen him, both in his straight part and in his stage antics with Norman Wisdom. Wisdom himself is great throughout and it is when you see him as good as this, that it seems such a shame he was not always given more demanding material. His comic timing is second to none but he was also a very fine actor who unfortunately had a tendency to maudlin in which direction he was often mistakenly led. Good as these two are and, it has to be said, all the rest of the cast, it is such a showpiece performance from Britt Ekland, that one is tempted to get up from the sofa and applaud. Oh, what if she had not spent most of those late 60s looking after Peter Sellers and graced our cinema screens in full sexy mode instead? Great film.
