The Jokers

Mini skirt and crown jewels ( Original title: The Jokers ). 's A British comedy film directed by Michael Winner from 1967, starring Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews and James Donald. The film was produced by the production company Gildor - Scimitar Adastra on a story by Michael Winner.

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Michael Tremayne feels unjustly fired from his job as completely misunderstood genius. He wants to work with brains, less muscled. And that he always had to live in the shadow of his older brother David dominant, which you admired as a successful and competent architects and worshiped him also does not taste much. Nevertheless, he now tries to show the world how much she is over him in error. Finally, he can win David for his daring plan and decide the brothers Tremayne, pursuant to steal their intellectual superiority, one of the most precious landmarks and shrines of England from the Tower, namely the British Crown Jewels.

After a series of fake bomb threats that keep the city of London and the authorities of Scotland Yard in breath, she finally hide a bomb in the Tower of London right in the jewel room and then call the police. Then they write letters to their bank manager and attorney, with the condition not to open before the successful raid, to prove that the brothers never really had the intention to keep the jewels.

Michael and David now dress up with the help of uniforms and slip into the heavily guarded room in the tower where the bomb squad is staying, this is the completely inept Colonel Gurney Simms assumed. As soon as the brothers are inside, they are committing the "crime of the century". The daring theft succeeds and the whole country is stunned and in awe for the two fearless Hasadeure. David hides the crown, the orb and the scepter under the floorboards of his apartment in Kensington, but is as it come to open the letters, jewels are suddenly gone.

The police arrested the brothers eventually. David's letter will be handed over to the police and he confesses his act properly. But this time his brother Michael turns out to be the smarter of the two. He had previously always been considered so miserable failure, denies any involvement in the robbery. He has his letter that is never mailed. David is beside himself because no one will believe his story of the jointly planned fraternal robbery with Michael as the mastermind, neither David's girlfriend, Eve, nor Scotland Yard detective Marryatt and so David will once arrested permanently and placed under the supervision of Sgt Catchpole. Michael triumphs, he has finally avenged for all the humiliations of the past and comes unpunished - with the jewels.

Reviews

" Turbulent, enjoyable comedy that undertakes an attack on all National sanctuaries of the conservative British by means of satire. "

" Unfortunately, it could not the director to make a movie out of his grotesque incident pleasure. The connoisseur is detuned by the significant bonds with Richard Lester, the entertainment seekers bored. "

Production Notes

The sound comes from John Purchese. The buildings created John Blezard. Jim Hyde and Jeanette Freeman distinguished themselves responsible for mask and hairstyles. Costumes came from Tony Armstrong. The special effects gave Ron Ballinger. The production line had Fred Hyams. Locations for the film were Albert Memorial, Kensington Gardens, Kensington, London in England.

1967 in film Screenplay Dick Clement Film score Daniel Massey (actor) Edward Fox (actor) Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom Crown (headgear) Globus cruciger Kensington (disambiguation)
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