MAKE MINE MINK (1960)

A lovely, charming, completely crazy British comedy, Make Mine Mink is about an elderly matron, Dame Beatrice, who rents out rooms in her spacious apartment to three tenants - skinny, nervous Pinky, stout and stern Nan, and ex-major Albert Rayne (the brilliant Terry-Thomas).  Her housekeeper is Lily, whom Dame Bea gave a "second chance" to after Lily did a short bout in prison, but when finances ground down and Dame Bea can no longer give to her various charity orphanages, it's Lily who inadvertently gives her and her boarders the idea to start stealing furs, then fencing them and giving all the money to charity ... all without Lily's knowledge, as Bea wants her to remain on the straight and narrow.  What follows are some hilarious bit of dodging from the police, heists gone wrong, and the gang becoming famous in the papers - all as Lily and her new policeman boyfriend get alarmingly closer to the truth.  Funny, silly, and a joyously lovable film; highly recommended. (not rated)  A-

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