Review of Loot

Loot (1970)
4/10
Loot Song
23 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
On stage this was reasonably funny but then on stage it wasn't lumbered with Dickie Attenborough trying desperately to turn in an inept performance, or Hywel Bennett and Roy Holder and a pathetic excuse for a music score. Hardly anyone comes out of this with any credit; you know a film is in trouble when you're constantly aware of how referential it is - the hiding the proceeds of a robbery in a coffin was done much more convincingly in Ocean's Eleven back in 1960, the nurse who offs her patient and then marries the widower is something of a cliché but if you want to see how the big boys do it take a swivel at Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity where Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson brings it off to a fare-thee-well. This would make great banjo picks.
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