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She and the lodgers concoct a scheme to return the fur coat before its owners realize its absence. Despite several comical mishaps, the gang manage to do so using a plan drawn up by the retired Major. The four are so exhilarated by their escapade, they decide to steal more furs, presuming that intricacies of theft should prove no more difficult than was the return of the
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plans a raid on a high-tone, but illegal gambling party. Dame
Beatrice pretends to be a gambler, while the rest of the group dress up as police officers. They stage a phoney raid of the premises, planning to make away with all the fur coats in the cloakroom, but a real police raid minutes later tests their mettle. They manage to escape with a few furs.
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on double entendres, wisecracks and leisurely aspidistra-and-antimacassar humour. The larger-than-life playing of Athene Seyler, Terry-Thomas and Hattie
Jacques conflicts with Billie Whitelaw's completely different style of warm-hearted naturalism, so that the film tends to disintegrate into a series of funny sketches, very weakly linked."
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is by no means original yet manages to whip up several tense and amusing sequences. The most successful of these rely on visual rather than verbal humour – Terry-Thomas searching for a fence, Athene Seyler at a gambling party. The dialogue, in fact, is the film's weakest feature, depending as it does
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Lily confronts them when she sees the new furs. When
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due to his lies about his business trip, he pretends to throw the coat off their balcony, but actually just hides it. Lily snags it and gives it to her employer to show her gratitude for hiring her despite her criminal record. Dame
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