Aunt Clara (1954)
1954 · Feature film · 84 min · dir. Anthony Kimmins
- Comedy
Synopsis
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Anthony Kimmins
- Writer
- Kenneth Horne
- Cinematography
- C.M. Pennington-Richards
- Studio
- Colin Lesslie Productions
- Released
- 1954-11-22
- Running time
- 84 minutes
Cast & crew
Anthony Kimmins Director
Ronald Shiner
Margaret Rutherford
A.E. Matthews
Fay Compton
Nigel Stock
Sidney James
Jill Bennett
Reginald Beckwith
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Culture-clash comedy · gallowglass · 2020-11-21
Ronald Shiner and Margaret Rutherford were both one-trick ponies, but no great subtlety was called-for in this 1954 adaptation of the Noel Streatfeild story about a rich, elderly villain on his deathbed, with the family hovering around, speculating about his will. Shiner is the old man’s butler Henry, and Rutherford is the high-minded spinster-niece, Clara, who unexpectedly inherits the whole bang-shoot on the grounds that she alone has never mentioned the subject of money. Clara re-hires Henry and enlists his help in investigating the various companies she now owns, while he feels he ought…
