What the Butler Saw

Watching a film like What The Butler Saw will make you and anyone else watching wonder how the British put together an empire on which the sun never set. Not with the silly people in this film.

Edward Rigby and his faithful butler Henry Mollison are returning from a Pacific tropic isle where Rigby has been the colonial governor there for a decade. Rigby's a sly old devil who really enjoyed life in the South Seas.

But stowing away in one of the crates he brought back was island princess Mercy Haystead who's developed a thing for the butler although God only knows why. But the rest of the family they are mortified as only upper crust aristocratic twits can be.

There are some amusing moments but this pale imitation of P.G. Wodehouse doesn't really cut it. Wodehouse had the good sense not to give Jeeves a love life.

Not the best British comedy, far from it.