Nothing But the Best (1964)

Directed by

Clive Donner

Genre

independent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young businessman pays an upper-class man to teach him how to act like a gentleman. The scheme involves learning manners and social climbing but takes a darker turn.

satiricalcerebraldarkly comicbriskcynicalshrewdtenseclass-conscious

What happens

Nothing but the Best is a 1964 British black comedy film directed by Clive Donner and starring Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews and Millicent Martin. The screenplay by Frederic Raphael is based on the 1952 short story "The Best of Everything" by Stanley Ellin. A young and ambitious businessman hires an unemployed upper-class man to tutor him in a number of life skills. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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