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    Perfect Friday (1970)

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    This little-known swinging 60s caper film sees Stanley Baker in fine form as uptight deputy bank manager Mr Graham who recruits glamorous socialite Lady Dorset (Ursula Andress) and her dissolute, cash-strapped English Lord husband (David Warner) to help him rob his employer and clean out the bank’s vaults.

    As impoverished members of the peerage, the Dorsets are keeping themselves expensively afloat with over-extended credit from Graham’s bank. On a Friday when the coast is clear, Graham will give the Dorsets a signal. That will be the “perfect Friday”.

    While waiting, Lord Nicholas Dorset and Graham are both consumed with plans to doublecross the other and take the whole haul.

    Meanwhile, Lady Dorset – while appearing to keep very busy in bed with either Mr Graham or her husband – is giving equally strenuous mental effort to her own plans for acquiring the swag . . .

    Director Peter Hall’s non-linear narrative makes the story confusing at times but this is more than made up for by the interaction between the three stars.

    Warner’s flamboyant character steals this film, in large part because Baker – in an example of how good acting can sometimes mean consciously stepping aside – helps him to do it.

    Britt, Lady Dorset
    Ursula Andress
    Mr Graham
    Stanley Baker
    Lord Nicholas Dorset
    David Warner
    Nanny
    Patience Collier
    Smith
    T.P. McKenna
    Williams
    David Waller
    Miss Welsh
    Joan Benham
    Thompson
    Julian Orchard
    Janet
    Trisha Mortimer
    Miss Marsh
    Ann Tirard

    Director
    Peter Hall

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