• Source: Diamonds for Breakfast (film)

      • Diamonds for Breakfast is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Christopher Morahan. The film opened in London but was never released in the US. It recorded an overall loss of $1,445,000.


      Plot


      Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno is a hard-up Russian aristocrat who owns a London boutique. At an art exhibition he slips on a banana skin and, recovering, hears the ghosts of his ancestors suggesting he steals the imperial diamonds. He assembles a team of female accomplices and posing as models they steal jewels by attaching them to carrier pigeons. However Nikolas's aunt ambushes the pigeons, and loses everything gambling in Monte Carlo.


      Cast


      Marcello Mastroianni as Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno
      Rita Tushingham as Bridget Rafferty
      Elaine Taylor as Victoria
      Margaret Blye as Honey
      Francesca Tu as Jeanne Silkingers
      The Karlins as triplets
      Warren Mitchell as Popov
      Nora Nicholson as Anastasia Petrovna
      Bryan Pringle as Police Sergeant
      Leonard Rossiter as Inspector Dudley
      Bill Fraser as bookseller
      David Horne as Duke of Windemere
      Charles Lloyd-Pack as butler
      Anne Blake as Nashka
      Ian Trigger as Popov's assistant


      Critical reception


      The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Unswervingly vulgar and soporific comedy whose principal joke is the sexual fatigue that overwhelms the hero in his patriotic attempts to keep his lady accomplices happy. The fantasy element is clumsily inserted (with great-grandfather's ghost looking remarkably like an extra from Ivan the Terrible (1944)), and N. F. Simpson's contribution to the script is discernible only in the accurately clichéd comments of the visitors to the Soviet exhibition and in the conversation of the elderly English Duke who boasts of having "slept through two World Wars". Mastroianni seems as embarrassed by his slapstick gags as Rita Tushingham does by the combination of Liverpudlian kookiness and romantic initiative with which the script burdens her; and only Warren Mitchell as the perspiring Russian (quoting Marx dogmatically, but still crossing himself for luck) strikes the right farcical note."


      References




      External links


      Diamonds for Breakfast at IMDb
      Diamonds for Breakfast then-and-now location photographs at ReelStreets

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