Not Now Darling
A madcap British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt-cheap for his wife, because the…
Not Now Darling
A madcap British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt-cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert's mistress and he wants to "close the deal." However, instead of doing his own dirty work, he gets his reluctant partner, Arnold Crouch, to do it for him. Things go awry when the mobster plans to buy it for his OWN mistress, and soon the whole plan goes out the window along with women's clothing and a few other things. Mistaken identities, scantily-clad women kept hidden in closets, mobsters, suspicious wives, and misguided shoppers keep this comedy trucking along in the spirit of the Marx Brothers and "Noises Off" (1992). —Michael Puskar Fur-coat merchant Gilbert Bodley is having an affair with Mrs. McMichael and plans to trick her husband into buying a mink coat. But then Mr. McMichael gives the coat to his own mistress, Mrs. Sue Lawson. On top of that, Mrs. Bodley arrives back from Monte Carlo early and both mistresses keep losing most of their clothes. —Il Tesoro Gilbert Bodley, the boss of a fur company, plans to have his way with Janie Carmichael by giving a fur coat for £500, but problems arise when: Janie's husband suspects that something is up; with the sudden arrival of Gilbert's wife back early from a holiday; Carmichael's secretary, with whom the husband is having an affair; a major couple who keeps missing each other; and an idiot assistant. Gilbert must to create lots of stories for each person and this causes no end of trouble. —Lee Horton <LeeH@tcp.co.uk>
Not Now Darling
Comedy
Film Details
A madcap British farce about mistresses and minks in the London fur salon of Bodley, Bodley and Crouch. Gilbert Bodley plans to sell an expensive mink to a mobster dirt-cheap for his wife, because the wife is Gilbert's mistress and he wants to "close the deal." However, instead of doing his own dirty work, he gets his reluctant partner, Arnold Crouch, to do it for him. Things go awry when the mobster plans to buy it for his OWN mistress, and soon the whole plan goes out the window along with women's clothing and a few other things.
Mistaken identities, scantily-clad women kept hidden in closets, mobsters, suspicious wives, and misguided shoppers keep this comedy trucking along in the spirit of the Marx Brothers and "Noises Off" (1992). —Michael Puskar Fur-coat merchant Gilbert Bodley is having an affair with Mrs. McMichael and plans to trick her husband into buying a mink coat.
But then Mr. McMichael gives the coat to his own mistress, Mrs. Sue Lawson.
On top of that, Mrs. Bodley arrives back from Monte Carlo early and both mistresses keep losing most of their clothes. —Il Tesoro Gilbert Bodley, the boss of a fur company, plans to have his way with Janie Carmichael by giving a fur coat for £500, but problems arise when: Janie's husband suspects that something is up; with the sudden arrival of Gilbert's wife back early from a holiday; Carmichael's secretary, with whom the husband is having an affair; a major couple who keeps missing each other; and an idiot assistant.
Gilbert must to create lots of stories for each person and this causes no end of trouble. —Lee Horton <LeeH@tcp.co.uk>.