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Diamonds for Breakfast
Diamonds for Breakfast (film).jpg
Film poster
Directed byChristopher Morahan
Written byErnesto Gastaldi
Ronald Harwood
Pierre Rouve
N. F. Simpson
Produced byCarlo Ponti
StarringMarcello Mastroianni
CinematographyGerry Turpin
Edited byPeter Tanner
Music byNorman Kay
Production
companies
ABC Films
Bridge Films
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • December 1968 (1968-12)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.3 million[1]

Diamonds for Breakfast is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Christopher Morahan.[2][3] The film opened in London but was never released in the US. It recorded an overall loss of $1,445,000.[1]

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

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."[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "ABC's 5 Years of Film Production Profits & Losses", Variety, 31 May 1973 p 3
  2. ^ "NY Times: Diamonds for Breakfast". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2009.
  3. ^ "Diamonds for Breakfast". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Diamonds for Breakfast". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 35 (408): 200. 1 January 1968 – via ProQuest.

External links

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