writers_reign On stage this was reasonably funny but then on stage it wasn't lumbered with Dickie Attenborough trying desperately to turn in an inept performance, or Hywel Bennett and Roy Holder and a pathetic excuse for a music score. Hardly anyone comes out of this with any credit; you know a film is in trouble when you're constantly aware of how referential it is - the hiding the proceeds of a robbery in a coffin was done much more convincingly in Ocean's Eleven back in 1960, the nurse who offs her patient and then marries the widower is something of a cliché but if you want to see how the big boys do it take a swivel at Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity where Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson brings it off to a fare-thee-well. This would make great banjo picks.

JasparLamarCrabb Lunacy directed by Silvio Narizzano with so much going on it's almost impossible to take it all in. Hywel Bennett & Roy Holder rob a bank and hide the money in the casket that should contain Holder's dead mother. A lot of craziness follows. Sexy nurse Lee Remick makes a quick move on Holder's mourning father (Milo O'Shea) while wacky policeman Richard Attenborough tries to figure it all out. As O'Shea tells him, Attenborough's every move is a mystery. The film moves at break-neck speed and all of the performers are hilarious. Remick affects a perfect Irish accent and Attenborough seems to be channeling early Peter Sellers. O'Shea nearly steals the film as a ridiculously understanding dolt. From the Joe Orton play with some disposable music by Keith Mansfield.

Gorgeous-5 Er......that's because it is a play. A play PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY PLAY. Did I mention it is a well known play in England? It's a rather good play.

xfile1971 You can tell throughout "Loot" that it is trying real hard to be an edgy black comedy. However, it doesn't even compare to the much funnier "Weekend At Bernie's". Why do I compare the two? Because both involve a corpse that moves around a lot.A couple of young men easily steal a bunch of money from a bank vault. The bank is right next to a funeral parlor and they hide the money in a coffin. Not an empty coffin...one with a body in it. Well, they can't fit all the money into the coffin so they take the body out in order to make room for their stash of cash.Craziness ensues as the two men try to hide both the money and the corpse from relatives and the police. It seems to go on and on and on. To make things worse, most of the story takes place in a hotel. This probably would've made a more interesting play rather than a movie. 2/10