Nothing but the Best (Original title)Best of Everything (Working title)
Dates: 1964 (Copyright), 16 March 1964 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Clive Donner
Synopsis: Jimmy Brewster is determined to be successful in life. His chance meeting with Charles Prince, a seedy but aristocratic rake, and his access to Charles' advice and monthly pension, contribute to the improvement of his position with his firm and Ann Horton, the director's daughter. When Charles plans to leave Jimmy strangles him and leaves the body locked in a trunk in the cellar. Mrs. March the landlady, knows what has happened but promises to keep quiet if Jimmy visits her regularly. Jimmy asks Ann to marry him and just before the wedding discovers that Charles was Ann's brother. After the honeymoon Jimmy is on his way to a demolition site when he reads a letter from Mrs. March saying she is in South Africa. He realises that his old digs are being pulled down and the body of Charles is discovered. Mrs. March would seem to be the obvious suspect.
Genre: Comedy
Releases
Date: 1964Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 99 mins Length: 8979 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1964 (Copyright), 16 March 1964 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Clive Donner
Synopsis: Jimmy Brewster is determined to be successful in life. His chance meeting with Charles Prince, a seedy but aristocratic rake, and his access to Charles' advice and monthly pension, contribute to the improvement of his position with his firm and Ann Horton, the director's daughter. When Charles plans to leave Jimmy strangles him and leaves the body locked in a trunk in the cellar. Mrs. March the landlady, knows what has happened but promises to keep quiet if Jimmy visits her regularly. Jimmy asks Ann to marry him and just before the wedding discovers that Charles was Ann's brother. After the honeymoon Jimmy is on his way to a demolition site when he reads a letter from Mrs. March saying she is in South Africa. He realises that his old digs are being pulled down and the body of Charles is discovered. Mrs. March would seem to be the obvious suspect.
Genre: Comedy
Releases
Date: 1964Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 99 mins Length: 8979 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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Production Company: Domino Productions, Producer: David Deutsch, Associate Producer: George Willoughby, Production Manager: Joe Levy, Assistant Director: Peter Price, Personal assistant to the director: Miriam Brickman, Continuity: Helen Whitson, Screenplay: Frederic Raphael, Original short story: Stanley Ellin, Director of Photography: Nicolas Roeg, Camera Operator: Alex Thomson, Chief electrician: Stanley Jodrell, Editor: Fergus McDonell, Production Designer: Reece Pemberton, Set Dresser: Helen Thomas, Costume Designer: Sally Jacobs, Wardrobe mistress: Laura Nightingale, Make-up: George Partleton, Hairstyling: Daphne Martin, Main titles designed: James Baker, Main titles photography: Desmond Russell, Music: Ron Grainer, Sound Recording: Robert Allen, Sound Recording: Len Abbott, Sound Editor: Dino Di Campo
Cast
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Alan Bates (Jimmy Brewster), Denholm Elliott (Charlie Prince), Harry Andrews (Mr. Horton), Millicent Martin (Ann Horton), Pauline Delaney (Mrs. March), Godfrey Quigley (Coates), Alison Leggatt (Mrs. Brewster), Lucinda Curtis (Nadine), Nigel Stock (Ferris), James Villiers (Hugh), Drewe Henley (Denis), Avice Landon (Mrs. Horton), Ernest Clark (Roberts), William Rushton (Gerry), Peter Madden (Ex-Politician), Robert Bruce (Basil), Annika Wills (girl), Alan Rothwell (young man), Angus Mackay (Clergyman), Olive Kirby (the maid Margaret), Howard Lang (Jutson), Donald Pickering (Adrian Slater), Marianne Stone (Horton's secretary), Bernard Levin (himself), The Eagles (the pop group), Diane Appleby ([secretary]), Paul Curran ([Mr. Brewster]), Joe Levine ([taxi driver]), Joanna Morris ([Jimmy's secretary]), June Watts ([waitress]), David Grey ([salesman]), Pattie Boyd ([girl in restaurant])