Based on a play by Michael Palin and Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame, Giles Foster’s comedy is not exactly a masterpiece.
The premise involves the floundering Chumley’s chocolate factory whose fortunes improve dramatically when hapless new management trainee Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks three men to their deaths in a mixing vat.
Suddenly the nation starts clamouring for their “special” chocolate (“Passionelles”) with its mystery ingredient.
Vanessa Redgrave delivers a strange performance as a litigating widow while Jonathan Pryce seems to have developed an obsession with the word “yah”.
The factory seen in the film is actually the Bliss Tweed Mill in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
Mrs Garza
Vanessa Redgrave Mr Farris
Jonathan Pryce Ian Littleton
Tyler Butterworth Graham Chumley
Freddie Jones Felicity
Sammi Davis Ethel
Prunella Scales Mrs Gordon
Thora Hird Big Teddy
William Rushton Jason
Andrew Sachs TV presenter
Wincey Willis
Director
Giles Foster
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Suddenly the nation starts clamouring for their “special” chocolate (“Passionelles”) with its mystery ingredient.
