Le scandaleux Mister Sterling

Story of what can happen when hypnosis goes all wrong. Timid bank clerk henry sterling ends up on stage, gets hypnotized, and has no memory of flirting with angel, the hypnotist's assistant. Apparently, he was never brought out of the hypnosis. And now he doesn't even want to go to work. Pretty similar story to office space, from 1999. This one stars george cole, jon pertwee, veronica hurst. It's okay. The first twenty minutes are actually a bit annoying. All running around, no-one really listens to anyone. No likeable characters. The incompetent doctor, flitting about. But it calms down, and comes to a happy place. It's okay. An old fashioned farce. Nobody wakes up dead! Office space did a much better job with it. This story started as a play. The film directed by michael anderson... he was nominated for around the world in eighty days. Based on the play by vernon sylvaine.

Just another case of Hollywood pinching an idea from British comedies. Seven years after the release of "Will Any Gentleman," Hollywood come up with "The Nutty Professor". Not an exact remake but the idea is not far removed.

I wonder if the director of this film went to see a stage performance of this film and decided to keep all the stage directions and mannerisms in the film.It seems that every line is shouted and the actors indulge in the most cringe worthy mugging.perhaps the only actor exempt from this criticism is George Cole.Incidentally the poor put upon member of the audience in the music hall sitting next to George Cole is none other than Richard Massingham who made public information shorts.There is a good cast including John Pertwee,James Hayter,Sid James,Diana decker but they are all wasted.It is woefully unfunny,although the technicolour photography gives a certain freshness to the picture.

If you like classic British comedy's this could be for you a great cast with George Cole as a mild mannered henpecked man who get hypnotised which completely changes his character. Two future Doctor Who actors Jon Pertwee & William Hartnell appear together on screen with support from Joan Sims.

With a strong cast of well known character actors, I expected a much more entertaining film. George Cole, plays the upright and meek, bank employee Henry Sterling, who suffers from sudden temporary fits of 'womanising' and playing the 'cad' which land him in all all sorts of marital and work problems. His 'Jekyll and Hyde' shenanigans is made worse by his scatty brother, played by Jon Pertwee. Enter all sorts of idiosyncratic characters, such as James Hayter playing a 'mad hatter' doctor, as Henry's lothario habits and misunderstandings land him in one crisis after another. Although the pace is fast and furious, the storyline borders on the absurd and infantile, and long before the end, the scenes showing Henry, morphing into a sort of 'Brian Rix' become too much! I found the character of George Cole annoying and frankly irritating! He was never a photogenic male lead and the idea that eligible young woman would swoon over him, seemed faintly ridiculous. A tedious film with too many cringeworthy scenes.