Disappointment for a huge fan!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Terry Thomas made many funny comedies in the fifties but sadly this was not one of them.A great cast including the likes of Battle Jacques and Irene Handle fail to make this film work and often resort to overacting.The blame has to attach squarely to Michael Pertwee as the situations are just not particularly funny.Just a few funny mommenfs.

Charming comedy about a bored group who board with Dame Bea (Athene Seyler) in an apartment. She supports many charities but has now run out of money. Through a series of events, they hit upon the idea of stealing fur coats and selling them to a fence so that she can continue to support her charities. The others are all bored so they go along ...since it's for charity. Implausible plot makes little difference as this disparate group of oddballs start their series of robberies. Subplot has Dame Bea's maid (Billie Whitelaw) who has a prison record, falling for a cop (Jack Hedley).The robberies are masterminded by the Major (Terry-Thomas) who calls on his military experience to plan the robberies, including all manner of disguises. Because they have no police records, they rob shops and gambling joints right under the cops' noses.The cast is uniformly excellent is this bit of craziness. Terry-Thomas and Athene Seyler turn in star performances, matched by Hattie Jacques as Nan and Elspeth Duxbury as the hapless Pinkie--their cohorts. Others in the cast include Raymond Huntley as the inspector, Irene Handl as Spolinski, Penny Morrell as Gertrude, Sydney Tafler and Joan Heal as the neighbors, and May Hallatt as the old lady. Kenneth Williams also shows up as the fence.The ending is priceless.

While I'll admit that "Make Mine Mink" starts off a bit slowly (especially since the opening song is VERY annoying), as the film progresses, it becomes quite original and funny. The film is set in a boarding house in Britain. At first, the viewer thinks the film is about the servant, Lily, as you learn that she's an ex-con who is trying very hard to turn over a new leaf. However, the film blind-sided me, as the three boarders and the lady of the house, all respectable folks, decide, on a lark, to steal mink coats from a local store! They find it exhilarating and cannot stop--and they soon begin pulling one job after another. It's actually amazing that they are as successful as they are, as the quartet are made up of some serious bumblers--and there is where the comedy is at its best. I could say more but think it's a film you just need to see for yourself. Suffice to say that the film must be funny if Terry-Thomas ISN'T the funniest cast member!

Paris used to be the place where you can see all sorts of "rare" films. But how comes we always have Man in the White Suit and Ladykillers when it comes to British comedy ? I discovered Terry-Thomas in the Dr Phibes movies (IMDB kindly tells me he's showing as well in that great French war classic, La Grande Vadrouille. How silly of me) and, rather charmed by the gap between the teeth, bought a Terry-Thomas DVD set in London. Mark that, readers ! It contains Make Mine Mink, Too Many Crooks and Naked Truth. They're all very good but Make Mine Mink has the very special charm of its female cast, from oddly beautiful Billie Whitelaw to wonderful Hattie Jacques (and a special mention to Penny Morrell in a faultless dumb blonde part).