Nothing but the Best (film)

Nothing but the Best
Directed by	Clive Donner
Produced by	David Deutsch
Written by	Stanley Ellin; Frederic Raphael
Starring	Alan Bates
Music by	Ron Grainer
Cinematography	Nicolas Roeg
Edited by	Fergus McDonell
Distributed by	Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd. (UK)
Release date	10 March 1964 (London, UK);
Running time	99 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Nothing but the Best is a 1964 British black comedy film directed by Clive Donner based on the 1952 short story 'The Best of Everything' by Stanley Ellin.[1][2]

Plot

James, a young man starting with a large London firm of estate agents and auctioneers, is ambitious to get to the top. In a cheap café, he meets Charles, a drunken layabout who has everything James wants: effortless upper-class arrogance and impeccable tailoring. In return for a room to live in and loans for drink and betting, Charles agrees to tutor James in the life skills he thinks he needs to succeed. By bluff and sabotage, James rises in his firm, catching the eye of the owner and of his only daughter Ann.

Disaster threatens when Charles has a big win and wants to end the deal. James hastily strangles him and his landlady agrees to hide the corpse in her cellar in return for continuing their sexual liaison. After a long courtship, Ann agrees to marry James and her father makes him a partner in the business. Having conveniently sent his lower-middle-class parents to Australia, James anticipates his success being crowned by a grand society wedding. Ann's father confesses that he has a totally disreputable son they never see called Charles and developers who have bought the house of James' former landlady find a corpse in the cellar.

Selected cast

Alan Bates as Jimmy Brewster
Denholm Elliott as Charlie Prince
Harry Andrews as Mr. Horton
Millicent Martin as Ann Horton
Pauline Delaney as Mrs. March
Godfrey Quigley as Coates
Alison Leggatt as Mrs. Brewster
Lucinda Curtis as Nadine
Nigel Stock as Ferris
James Villiers as Hugh
Drewe Henley as Denis
Avice Landone as Mrs. Horton
Ernest Clark as Roberts
Willie Rushton as Gerry
Peter Madden as Ex-Politician

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References

"Nothing but the Best (1964)". BFI.
Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). "The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film". Walter de Gruyter – via Google Books.

External links

Nothing but the Best on IMDb
Nothing but the Best at AllMovie

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[1] "Nothing but the Best (1964)". BFI.

[2] Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). "The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film". Walter de Gruyter – via Google Books.