Distributor:
Cinema Club Certificate: 15 | 100
minutes | Region 2 |
Available to buy Extras: No
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Richard
Attenborough, Lee Remick, Hywel Bennett,
Milo
O’Shea, Dick Emery, Roy Holder,
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
I
was actually born and raised
just a couple of streets away
from where the legendary Joe
Orton (on whose play Loot is
based) was himself born and
raised, Loot had been a huge
success on the stage during the
swinging sixties but by the time
the movie was made in 1970 Orton
himself was long gone, murdered
in 1967 by his gay lover.
Loot
is pretty much the ultimate black comedy, Orton was always keen to
explore the boundaries of taste and often didn’t know where to draw
the line, the plot is simple enough, young Hal (Roy Holder) and hearse
driving boyfriend Dennis (Hywel Bennett) hide the body of Hal’s mother
in order to use her coffin to carry the money from a robbery the two
have pulled off. The fantastic cast are clearly having a whale of a time
hamming up the script by the legendary Galton and Simpson superbly,
Richard Attenborough plays Inspector Truscott the Hitler moustachioed
Inspector who comes to investigate whilst Lee Remick turns in a very
sexy performance as an Irish nurse who also has designs on the money.
Yes
its vulgar, often rude and farcical but
its
also frequently brilliant and generally hilarious, the set design too is
a riot of bad taste and mismatched colours, its all very real life
exaggerated to the nth degree, its also worth mentioning that the two
young leads are clearly homosexual at a time when mainstream cinema was
still shying away from the subject. Well worth watching.
