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{{short description|1970 film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Loot
| image = Loot FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption = Film poster
| director = [[Silvio Narizzano]]
| producer = Arthur Lewis
| screenplay = [[Ray Galton]] [[Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)|Alan Simpson]]
| based_on = {{Based on|''[[Loot (play)|Loot]]''|[[Joe Orton]]}}
| starring = [[Richard Attenborough]] [[Lee Remick]] [[Hywel Bennett]] [[Milo O'Shea]] [[Roy Holder]]
| music = [[Keith Mansfield]] and Richard (Willing-Denton) later known as Richard Denton
| cinematography = Austin Dempster
| editing = Martin Charles
| studio = Performing Arts
| distributor = [[British Lion Film Corporation]]
| released = {{film date|1970|12|31|df=yes}}
| runtime = 101 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
}}

'''''Loot''''' is a 1970 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Silvio Narizzano]]. It is based on the [[Loot (play)|play of the same name]] by [[Joe Orton]] and stars [[Richard Attenborough]], [[Lee Remick]], [[Hywel Bennett]], [[Milo O'Shea]] and [[Roy Holder]].<ref>''[[Variety Film Reviews|Variety]]'' film review; 31 January 1971, page 24.</ref> It was entered into the [[1971 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2419/year/1971.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Loot |access-date=12 April 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref>

==Plot==
The setting is a seaside hotel owned by a Mr. McLeavy in the 1960s in England. The owner’s son, Hal ([[Roy Holder]]), and Hal's boyfriend, Dennis ([[Hywel Bennett]]), rob a bank located next to the funeral parlour where Dennis works. They hide the money in the coffin of Hal’s mother, who has just died and whose body has been returned to the hotel prior to its final burial.

Inspector Truscott ([[Richard Attenborough]]) investigates the bank robbery and immediately suspects Hal and Dennis. Meanwhile, Mr. McLeavy ([[Milo O'Shea]]) is being aggressively courted by Fay McMahon ([[Lee Remick]]), the nurse who cared for Hal’s ailing mother in her last weeks of life. Fay is having an affair with Dennis, but she has no real interest in him until he tells her he has come into money. Inspector Truscott also has a particular interest in Nurse McMahon, he is sure she murdered several of her former husbands, and also thinks she poisoned Hal's mother.

Truscott's investigations, and Dennis and Hal’s ongoing measures to get away with the proceeds of the bank robbery, make up the action in ''Loot''.

==Cast==
* [[Richard Attenborough]] as Inspector Truscott
* [[Lee Remick]] as Nurse Fay McMahon
* [[Hywel Bennett]] as Dennis
* [[Milo O'Shea]] as Mr. McLeavy
* [[Roy Holder]] as Hal
* [[Dick Emery]] as Mr. Bateman
* [[Joe Lynch (actor)|Joe Lynch]] as Father O'Shaughnessy
* [[John Cater]] as Meadows
* [[Aubrey Woods]] as Undertaker
* Enid Lowe as W.V.A. Leader
* [[Harold Innocent]] as Bank Manager
* [[Kevin Brennan (actor)|Kevin Brennan]] as Vicar
* Andonia Katsaros as Policewoman
* Jean Marlow as Mrs. McLeavy
* [[Robert Raglan]] as Doctor
* Hal Galili as Pallbearer
* Douglas Ridley as Pallbearer
* [[Stephen Yardley]] as Pallbearer
* Edwin Finn as Pallbearer

==Reception==
In ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' in 2017, Tim Robey wrote "it retains something of the spirit of 1960s [[Heist film|caper movies]], such as ''[[Gambit (1966 film)|Gambit]]'' (1966) and ''[[The Italian Job]]'' (1969). The [[queer]] sensibility of the play – censored for blasphemy and gay references in its time – is tentatively rather than fully explored – ''[[Georgy Girl]]'' director Silvio Narizzano opted to play it all for broad, primary-coloured farce."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/classic-british/joe-ortons-cheeky-wink-to-sixties-cinema/|title=Joe Orton's cheeky wink to Sixties cinema|first=Tim|last=Robey|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=18 August 2017|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>

According to the screenwriters seeking to turn the play into a film (Ray Galton and Alan Simpson), in 2012 Orton's agent [[Peggy Ramsay]] was complimentary, "... even she couldn't tell where he'd finished and where we started. But it's not a great film, unfortunately". Part of this was because, to the writers' regret, Narizzano directed the actors to perform "in an over-the-top style, and it doesn't work".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Galton|first1=Ray|last2=Simpsom|first2=Alan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jan/22/tony-hancock-lost-script|title=Hancock's half-finished: how Galton and Simpson revived their lost movie|work=The Guardian|date=22 January 2012|access-date=5 January 2020}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0066002}}
* {{tcmdb title|81814}}

{{Joe Orton}}
{{Galton and Simpson}}

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