Advantages: Katy Manning & Joanna Lumley Disadvantages: Awful plot & serious abuse of Police power
This might be based on a play but that's no excuse for an out & out awful plot. Brian Rix plays the lead role, a minister who is kidnapped on his wedding day in an attempt to disgrace a morality bill that he is trying to put through Parliment. The lovely Katy Manning (of Dr Who and semi-naked Dalek fame) plays his lead kidnapper, the very typecast Leslie Phillips plays the 2nd minister who is also involved in the morality bill but on the side is ... ...& centre. The police who gatecrash the "orgy" (a set-up to disgrace Rix) have no warrant and enter the house illegally so anything they see they can't use. Rix escapes and flees back to his home (followed by Manning and the police). When the police enter Rix's house they enter by an open window from a fire escape (illegal unlawful entry) and start to question everyone. Having entered the house illegally with no warrant, they have no authority to ...
atytyut2434 20.05.2009
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