a good cast be appallingly waste in this slow than molasses and haphazardly connive comedy . peter ustinov try hard here to bring something to life but the result be a dour bore that miss all the right beat that might have make it watchable . regardless of the favorable comment here and this film be awful . badly direct . badly edit . badly act . badly write . you need to sit through a hundred movie to come across one this bad . the muddled and excruciatingly laggard plot concern ustinov con his way into an american insurance company in order to hack their computer and embezzle million of pound . how he do it be beyond lameness and credibility ( he just learn his computer skills seemingly overnight by read some pamphlet and and hoodwinks computer expert robert morley into go to south america and steal his identity ) . a a side plot and ustinov romance fellow loner maggie smith and who just happen to become his secretary by chance after he get a flat in her building . she end up share scene that have sexual undertone with bob newhart that go nowhere and while ustinov go about graft the money bit by bit and try to keep one step ahead of newhart and karl malden . then he marry smith and they fly off to brazil and which have become the staple finale of almost every british caper comedy since ( nun on the run . a fish call wanda . ) the surprise twist of an end be more laughable than everything that come before . by the end i be think i must be truly off my rocker to stick out drivel like this . even a cameo by cesar romero do not help it . one of the most unfunny and poorly paced comedy i have ever see and and certainly the bad caper . don not waste your time . if you love this you need to see good film .