I thought this was a comedy at first of the Keystone cops kind. A foiled robbery, a dyspeptic blind man, a mad chase involving Usain Bolt powered robbers, a woman in flimsy nightwear and another languishing in the bath; what promise!
The attractive female lead is smitten by the man who invaded her boudoir in pursuit of a dangerous thief. As said man looks like Billy Bunter a quarter of a way through a weight watchers course I expect the movie makers stinted on the lighting. Even in broad unkind daylight her passion for the hero remains unflagging.
Meanwhile plots abound. Notorious criminal the Fox is after Bunter's aunt's jewels, he fails. Then Bunter announces that he and flimsy nightie lady are to marry which causes her guardian and his friend, the original choice for marriage to nightie lady, to entertain bad thoughts. See they've squandered thousands of dollars of their ward's money and once she marries she'll be expecting a mighty windfall, only the money tree is bare (unless she joins the DUP, 2017 election joke).
It then gets complicated if, like me, you've lost interest. There's a ball with lots of ladies in very pretty gowns and a failed kidnap sponsored by nightie lady's guardians which the Fox hears about and then muscles in on the action and people are two-timed and shot etc.
The most memorable moment is when bath lady, nightie lady's sister, declares how hunky (fat) Billy Bunter is and that his stunning manliness has induced her to tear up her autographed photo of Bing Crosby (google him).
The female lead retired from films not long after making this; after seeing this I almost retired from watching them.
The attractive female lead is smitten by the man who invaded her boudoir in pursuit of a dangerous thief. As said man looks like Billy Bunter a quarter of a way through a weight watchers course I expect the movie makers stinted on the lighting. Even in broad unkind daylight her passion for the hero remains unflagging.
Meanwhile plots abound. Notorious criminal the Fox is after Bunter's aunt's jewels, he fails. Then Bunter announces that he and flimsy nightie lady are to marry which causes her guardian and his friend, the original choice for marriage to nightie lady, to entertain bad thoughts. See they've squandered thousands of dollars of their ward's money and once she marries she'll be expecting a mighty windfall, only the money tree is bare (unless she joins the DUP, 2017 election joke).
It then gets complicated if, like me, you've lost interest. There's a ball with lots of ladies in very pretty gowns and a failed kidnap sponsored by nightie lady's guardians which the Fox hears about and then muscles in on the action and people are two-timed and shot etc.
The most memorable moment is when bath lady, nightie lady's sister, declares how hunky (fat) Billy Bunter is and that his stunning manliness has induced her to tear up her autographed photo of Bing Crosby (google him).
The female lead retired from films not long after making this; after seeing this I almost retired from watching them.