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10 de sept. de 2012 · If, despite Nic Roeg's lush photography, the glittering prizes look horribly tarnished, that only deepens the black comedy. Jimmy Brewster's climb to the top comes without angst or guilt or tragic ...
Nothing But The Best is kind of like American Psycho but in 60s London rather than 80s New York, but it’s definitely more obviously played for laughs and relatively lighthearted, despite Alan Bates (brilliantly) playing a dangerously ambitious businessman who gleefully cuts corners and sabotages rivals to get to the top.
NOTHING BUT THE BEST (1964) Nothing but the Best is a world away from the New Wave Northern dramas of only a couple of years previously, and seems to set out to emphasise this difference by having as its star Alan Bates, who had made such an impression as Vic in John Schlesinger's A Kind of Loving, one of the key New Wave films. Bates now plays ...
A pretty superb black comedy with award winning screenplay by American born Frederick Raphael, distinguished screenwriter. A good story, great performances and excellent production. And, more than 50 years later, still fresh. Popular music, fashions, decor, language, behaviour -so much has changed in 50 years.
Nothing But the Best. Date: 1964 Director: Clive Donner Production Company: ... This is Waterloo in the film and that indeed looks like the former Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women, SE1, in the background. Probably tricky to take a comparison with the IMAX centre obscuring the view.
Brilliant film. I believe it is and was meant as a parody of Room at the Top ((1959) a powerful tragedy with Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret. She won an Academy award for her performance as the doomed mistress. In that film, Harvey is meant to be condemned for his actions. And Nothing But The Best, Bates gets away with it all.
Nothing but the Best. Jimmy Brewster (Alan Bates) is a ruthlessly ambitious real estate agent who'll do anything to transcend his working-class roots. When he meets his boss's broke and desperate ...
