Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuInfamous thief attempts reformation through 12-step program led by former criminal to marry girlfriend. His job as department store Santa tests his resolve for change.Infamous thief attempts reformation through 12-step program led by former criminal to marry girlfriend. His job as department store Santa tests his resolve for change.Infamous thief attempts reformation through 12-step program led by former criminal to marry girlfriend. His job as department store Santa tests his resolve for change.
- Regie
- Drehbuch
- Hauptbesetzung
- Laurence Montague
- (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
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Out of Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors, Crooks Anonymous is the kind of innocuous black and white British comedy that gets in and does its entertaining job without fuss or pointless filler. Cast are most agreeable, the story has the requisite daftness about it, and it's all smiles come the finale. Trick of the narrative is having us the audience be on the side of the thieving bounder, who is wonderfully essayed by the suave Phillips. That he wants to do right by the scrummy Miss Christie (her first year of big screen acting) obviously resonates with the red blooded male members of the audience, but that he is so charming, elegant even when relieving unsuspecting members of the public of their possessions, really has all comers cheering the gentleman cad on! Fun is garnered here from the tactics used by Hyde-White to get Phillips on the straight, methods such as booby trapped safes bring the joy, as does the many guises used by an on form Stanley Baxter. While a flip flop for the Christmas set finale has a delicious ironical flavour to it. There's nothing overtly side-splitting about the film, and definitely there's no raucous-like-screwball histrionics within either, this is just good old enjoyable fare from a production company who had a particularly good track record in the light entertainment department. 7/10
Later in the movie, Dandy has apparently changed--and certainly for the better. However, even with the help of C.A., what is Dandy to do when he's given the chance to do a nearly perfect crime with very little risk. After all, it drops right into his lap! Well, what happens next is also something you'll just need to see for yourself--and it's quite clever and funny.
I had a hard time deciding whether to score this o 7 or an 8--either way it's very original and quite cute. Well worth seeing.
Captain Forsdyke (Leslie Phillips) is a career criminal always tempted by pickpocketing and safecracking. His real name is Cox and never even seen real service. His girlfriend Babette (Julie Christie) a showgirl wants him to go straight.
Babette comes across a group called Crooks Anonymous, founded by Mr Montague (Wilfrid Hyde-White) they help hardened criminals go straight.
Forsdyke is taken by Brother Widdowes (Stanley Baxter) during a robbery when he is disguised as a policeman and taken to the Crooks Anonymous headquarters. Forsdyke admits to Montague that he wants to give up the life of crime and marry Babette.
During his time the society puts him through numerous tests to help him give up his former life such as locking him in a room filled with safes, which contain cigarettes, food, drink and a number of booby traps which make opening them hazardous.
Forsdyke finally manages to succeed in being resisting temptation to an opportunistic crime and is released into society where he gets a job as Father Christmas in a department store. He is also set to marry Babette.
However one night a perfect opportunity to commit a crime arises, he rings Crooks Anonymous, but each time they send someone round to rescue him, they also succumb to temptation.
The film has some 1960s Swinging London tropes, such as Christie as the glamorous blonde but what it has going is a sly story of villains made to go straight told with charm. Stanley Baxter has a hoot donning various disguises as he outwits Forsdyke at every turn. There are a host of familiar character actors that were a staple of 1960s British cinema, catch Dick Emery early on in the movie.
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- WissenswertesFilm debut of Julie Christie.
- PatzerWhen Fosdyke (Leslie Phillips) is left alone after being taken to Manderville Hall he falls into the trap of opening a safe behind a picture. In the first shot he is suddenly interrupted by Senior Brother (Wilfrid Hyde-White) and closes the picture over the safe, but when it is reopened the handle is at right angles to where it was before.
- Zitate
Babette La Verne: Show me one thing. Just one thing in this room that you've come by honestly.
Dandy Forsdyke: [He looks and looks and, after some difficulty, takes a frame from the mantle which has a photograph of Babette] Well, um, Well, there must be something. What about this, eh?
[And then he explains]
Dandy Forsdyke: The picture, I mean. Not - not the frame.
Babette La Verne: [Tearfully] Even the camera you took it with was stolen.
- VerbindungenReferences Yogibär (1961)
- SoundtracksI Must Resist Temptation
(uncredited)
Music by George Martin and Muir Mathieson
Lyrics by Brian Innes
Sung by Leslie Phillips
[Played during opening title card and credits]
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- Crooks Anonymous
- Drehorte
- Kynance Mews, South Kensington, London, England, Vereinigtes Königreich(Kenton Mews - Dandy's house)
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- Laufzeit1 Stunde 28 Minuten
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- Seitenverhältnis
- 1.37 : 1