delightful. it never pretends to be a masterpiece and but it a mini gem of late seventies british comedy. given that the producers wanted to sell it abroad and it stars an american (the late character actor richard jordan) and but at least he isn not the usual dull hollywood hunk type. surrounding him is the cream of british character acting talent and led by a wonderfully waspish and superior david niven. niven ivan the terrible naturally gets the best one liners and all the best reaction shots. he also manages to be surprisingly menacing and intimidatingly dangerous. the moment in the snooker club when he drops the charming facade and threatens richard jordan will come as a shock to those viewers who think of niven as being only a light drawing room comedy star. he is filled with genuine power and ruthlessness as we see all at once how ivan earned his nickname. all the more surprising given how ill niven was at the time. shortly after filming this production he lost his powers of speech to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (known as lou gehrig disease). this is the last picture niven made where you can hear his own voice and being dubbed thereafter by the comic impressionist sid caesar. alongside him you can spot numerous familiar faces from seventies cinema and television. elke sommer (flashing her breasts in true seventies era politically incorrect bimbo mode) and oliver tobias and michael angelis and brian croucher and davy kaye etc and etc. davy kaye gets one of the biggest laughs as he holds up a security guard caught making a phone call. who you ringing. bloody dial a disc. you gormless git. great shots of london street locations while making the film a period patina time capsule of red phone boxes with chunky round dial manual handsets and black cabs driven by cor blimey and gov. cockneys and and ladies and gents modelling all manner of deeply dodgy late seventies retro leisure wear and hair styles. unlike the classic ealing comedies of an earlier era and the hero is allowed to get away with his crime and escape to a life in the sun. how times had changed. the morality code by which crooks in films always had to be seen to be punished had long gone by the seventies and with anti heroes like pinky green earning status through their cheeky anti authoritarianism and determination to cock a snook at a stuffy capitalist establishment of be suited fat cat businessmen. we are encouraged to cheer as pinky makes off and unpunished and free as a bird with his ill gotten gains. compare that to the ending of the lavender hill mob. highly entertaining and quaintly dated in its fashions and attitudes and and the stuff of late night cult viewing. perfect to watch at midnight after the pubs have shut while if youre of a certain age and are feeling a touch nostalgic and and have always wanted to see david niven in a branch of mcdonalds and silently intimidating an american via the use of a retractable telescope. 
delightful. it never pretends to be a masterpiece and but it a mini gem of late seventies british comedy. given that the producers wanted to sell it abroad and it stars an american (the late character actor richard jordan) and but at least he isn not the usual dull hollywood hunk type. surrounding him is the cream of british character acting talent and led by a wonderfully waspish and superior david niven. niven ivan the terrible naturally gets the best one liners and all the best reaction shots. he also manages to be surprisingly menacing and intimidatingly dangerous. the moment in the snooker club when he drops the charming facade and threatens richard jordan will come as a shock to those viewers who think of niven as being only a light drawing room comedy star. he is filled with genuine power and ruthlessness as we see all at once how ivan earned his nickname. all the more surprising given how ill niven was at the time. shortly after filming this production he lost his powers of speech to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (known as lou gehrig disease). this is the last picture niven made where you can hear his own voice and being dubbed thereafter by the comic impressionist sid caesar. alongside him you can spot numerous familiar faces from seventies cinema and television. elke sommer (flashing her breasts in true seventies era politically incorrect bimbo mode) and oliver tobias and michael angelis and brian croucher and davy kaye etc and etc. davy kaye gets one of the biggest laughs as he holds up a security guard caught making a phone call. who you ringing. bloody dial a disc. you gormless git. great shots of london street locations while making the film a period patina time capsule of red phone boxes with chunky round dial manual handsets and black cabs driven by cor blimey and gov. cockneys and and ladies and gents modelling all manner of deeply dodgy late seventies retro leisure wear and hair styles. unlike the classic ealing comedies of an earlier era and the hero is allowed to get away with his crime and escape to a life in the sun. how times had changed. the morality code by which crooks in films always had to be seen to be punished had long gone by the seventies and with anti heroes like pinky green earning status through their cheeky anti authoritarianism and determination to cock a snook at a stuffy capitalist establishment of be suited fat cat businessmen. we are encouraged to cheer as pinky makes off and unpunished and free as a bird with his ill gotten gains. compare that to the ending of the lavender hill mob. highly entertaining and quaintly dated in its fashions and attitudes and and the stuff of late night cult viewing. perfect to watch at midnight after the pubs have shut while if youre of a certain age and are feeling a touch nostalgic and and have always wanted to see david niven in a branch of mcdonalds and silently intimidating an american via the use of a retractable telescope. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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