Soho Conspiracy

This is quite possibly the worst example of British cinema - that could ever hope to be taken seriously - that I have ever watched. It reminded me of one of those Saturday's in the kitchen when your mum gave you free run to use any ingredients you could find to put into a cake mixture and then see what the oven supplied an hour later... Well, this film is a celluloid equivalent. There is a plot - not that it matters in any way: a lawyer is trying to trick a restaurant owner out of his property so he can demolish it and build a big new development; meantime these shenanigans almost derail (we live in hope) a charity show that features some opera singers. To add to the shambolic look of the film, director Cecil H. Williamson - has "borrowed" some footage of serious singing talent Tito Gobbi and Maria Caniglia, who were both fairly accomplished stars, and folded it into the storyline. Their contributions - including some pretty shocking attempts at dubbing - were incorporated into the sloppily constructed drivel in such a fashion as to render them almost ridiculous - though no more so than much of the rest of this poor effort at comedy.