Otley

1969

Comedy

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 23% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 23%
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 722 722

intelligence

Plot summary

A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.

Director

Dick Clement Photo
Dick Clement

Top cast

Aileen Lewis Photo
Aileen Lewis as Onlooker at Buckingham Palace Investiture
James Villiers Photo
James Villiers as Hendrickson
John Savident Photo
John Savident as 2nd Businessman
James Payne Photo
James Payne as Taxi Driver
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835.17 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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1.51 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by christopher-underwood 7 / 10

good fun checking out the locations

No way is this film as funny as it should be or seemingly as funny as it thinks it is. But it does have charm, some great and colourful location shooting and some very decent performances. From the extended opening as Tom Courtenay makes he way a good length of Portobello Road to the modest and quiet ending, we smile but little more. Nevertheless the film is likeable and a pleasure to watch, Coutenay is excellent, Romy Schneider lovely though underused and James Villiers who must have appeared in every British film of the time does better than usual. There is also a great turn from Leonard Rossiter who almost brings the film to life singlehandedly. Maybe it was the time, maybe it was writers La Frenais and Clement but this film is outrageously languorous and happy to almost stop now and again. Still good fun checking out the locations and Courtenay doesn't put a foot wrong.
Reviewed by tabuno 7 / 10

A Solid Spy Comedy that Wasn't Given Enough Direction or Material to Shine

28 August 2012. The droll British humor of this late sixties movie doesn't quite have the snappish charm of Peter Seller's The Pink Panther (1963) nor the American slap slick entertainment of another closely related and even more ironic comedy thriller The Man With One Red Shoe (1985). There are a number of sequences that are quite suggestive of the potential of this movie, yet it seems to be so laid back and in a few places so serious that it never quite takes off. The strongest element of this movie is its ending, yet it only heightens the apparent omission of the potential strength of the movie in the primary relationship between the two main characters. Romy Schneider who had the most appeal in the movie came close to achieving that fine relational nuance that would have taken this movie to a new level, but didn't quite take it over the top. Tom Courtenay only three years after his presence in the classic Dr. Zhivago, explores his range of talent from his previous role as a serious Russian revolutionary and isn't given quite the comedic material to really shine in the movie. Overall, this is a pleasant romp in England, mostly connected with together but not quite stitch up in the intricate nature of great British espionage movies of the time. A more contemporary British espionage spy comedy thriller would be Wild Targets (2010).
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