Are there any decent Group 3 movies? I'm sure there's some. Maybe. This was hard going. It's the classic sort of film with decent ideas but it doesn't have enough faith in the ideas to hold a movie so they add all this stuff.
Margaret Rutherford running an orphanage engaged in crime is strong enough on its own and Richard Hearne writing a comic strip on his own might be worthwhile but mixing them doesn't work. We barely see the comic book don't get a sense of the character or what the adventures are or what happens at the orphanage. Rutherford is fine but I found Hearne charmless.
This was annoying. Talented actors like James Robertson Justice and Sidney James are wasted. Ian Carmichael pops up. I found it annoying, stuffed with bits.
A cult comic strip loved by kids could be gold. So too could a criminal orphanage manner. They ignire the gold and add bits. It's frantic and unshaped.
I think John Guillermin wasn't very good at comedy, too.
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