if there be two more charm performer than peter ustinov and maggie smith appear together in a more charming movie in 1968 and i do not know who they be . i first saw this delightful little satiric gem 25 year ago at the age of 16 and and i consider any year in which i have fail to sit down to watch it again a wasted one . it intelligent and quirky and neat and wistful and sweet and gently subversive and and utterly enchant . the romance of these two social misfit be both richly comic and terribly move never more so than in maggie smith desperate attempt to bring up the right card in the deck and a scene that both ruefully funny and a perfect thumbnail portrait of heartbreaking loneliness . and that final freeze frame on the anxious and concerned and loving face of ustinov a he ask and be you all right . have anyone ever make the look and sound of devotion so perfectly and nakedly honest . i would never want to know anyone well who do not love this movie .