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Maid for Murder

Original title: She'll Have to Go
  • 1962
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
5.3/10
259
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Maid for Murder (1962)
Comedy

Brothers Francis and Douglas Oberon lose family fortune to cousin Antoinette "Toni" Oberon in grandmother's will. Facing poverty, they plot to marry Toni or kill her to inherit estate themse... Read allBrothers Francis and Douglas Oberon lose family fortune to cousin Antoinette "Toni" Oberon in grandmother's will. Facing poverty, they plot to marry Toni or kill her to inherit estate themselves.Brothers Francis and Douglas Oberon lose family fortune to cousin Antoinette "Toni" Oberon in grandmother's will. Facing poverty, they plot to marry Toni or kill her to inherit estate themselves.

  • Director
    • Robert Asher
  • Writers
    • Ian Stuart Black
    • John Waterhouse
  • Stars
    • Bob Monkhouse
    • Alfred Marks
    • Hattie Jacques
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
    259
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Robert Asher
    • Writers
      • Ian Stuart Black
      • John Waterhouse
    • Stars
      • Bob Monkhouse
      • Alfred Marks
      • Hattie Jacques
    • 14User reviews
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    Bob Monkhouse
    Bob Monkhouse
    • Francis Oberon
    Alfred Marks
    Alfred Marks
    • Douglas Oberon
    Hattie Jacques
    Hattie Jacques
    • Miss Richards
    Anna Karina
    Anna Karina
    • Toni
    Dennis Lotis
    Dennis Lotis
    • Gilbert
    Graham Stark
    Graham Stark
    • Arnold
    Clive Dunn
    Clive Dunn
    • Chemist
    Hugh Lloyd
    Hugh Lloyd
    • Macdonald
    Peter Butterworth
    Peter Butterworth
    • Doctor
    Harry Locke
    • Stationmaster
    Pat Coombs
    Pat Coombs
    • Lady On Station Platform
    • (uncredited)
    Jack Taylor
    • Train Driver
    • (uncredited)
    Larry Taylor
    Larry Taylor
    • Train Fireman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Robert Asher
    • Writers
      • Ian Stuart Black
      • John Waterhouse
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    7boblipton

    Stress Analysis Of A Strapless Evening Gown

    Brothers Bob Monkhouse and Alfred Marks have been written out of the will. Everything has been left to their second cousin, a convent-reared girl. They consider marriage, but neither of them seem very interested in the subject. Instead they decide to murder the woman. When it turns out to be Anna Karina, however, they become heterosexuals, when not botching their various murder attempts.

    It's a very funny black comedy of the lowest variety, with plenty of sight gags, camera trickery, and out-and-out pratfalls. Hattie Jacques is on hand as a journalist, and Peter Butterworth is very funny as a doctor who has forgotten everything he knew about medicine, including the difference between a head and a foot. Miss Karina is present to wear an amazing strapless evening gown, to be very sweet, and to serve as the impervious target of the two inept would-be murderers.
    4bnwfilmbuff

    Made for Anna

    Pleasant movie about a couple of impoverished brothers living in a mansion that get stiffed in their grandmother's will. Anna shows up as the heiress and they bounce back and forth as whether to marry or kill her to get at the money. None of the comedy works. Outcome is predictable. Karina is gorgeous.
    6k_t_t2001

    Silly, inoffensive film, with a well-tread plot and faulty direction

    This very broad comedy features several guffaws and one or two solid laughs. The premise is old hat: Douglas and Francis (Alfred Marks and Bob Monkhouse), two idler brothers of the stereotypical British upper-class variety, suddenly find themselves cut off without a penny in their late grandmother's will, in favour of a Corsican cousin, Toni, they have never met and whose existence they were previously barely aware of. Immediately dismissing the notion of actually working for a living, the brothers decide that their only viable options are reacquiring control of the estate by either marrying or murdering their cousin on her impending visit to the hereditary family manor on the English coast.

    Initially deciding that murder is the more palatable of the two options, they find themselves vacillating somewhat, when Toni arrives in the person of the beautiful and seductive Anna Karina. From there events proceed in a predictable fashion as Douglas and Francis, without a whit of subtlety between them, alternate between trying to murder and romance Toni, as circumstances keep shifting beneath their feet, leading up to the totally foreseeable finale.

    Tossed into the mix is a typical assortment of eccentric British comedy supporting characters: Hattie Jacques as a blustery journalist, Graham Stark as her silent, dour photographer, Peter Butterworh as a myopic, deranged country doctor and Clive Dunn as a confused and klutzy shopkeeper.

    All the performers deliver exactly what is required of them, doing their best to work with the tried and true, but ultimately tired material. However, it really isn't the lack of originality that is the main failing of the production. Indeed, to a certain extent, the familiarity is both expected and comforting - the audience knows what kind of movie this is going to be from the moment the opening credits roll and can settle back at ease with it. What really lets the whole production down is Robert Asher's ham-fisted direction. Asher seems to have had no faith in the inherent humour of the material or the skills of his performers and his resulting attempts to force laughs with silly, insipid and embarrassing visual gags and groan-inducing "whacky" sound effects, not only display a lack of directorial inspiration, but a deficiency of good taste.

    Certainly not a great movie, but one that is quite indicative of the era of film making that spawned it, SHE'S GOT TO GO is recommended more for fans of British comedies of the type represented by the CARRY ON series (of which Bob Monkhouse was an alumnus and Hattie Jacques and Peter Butterworh were regulars) than those of the Ealing Studios variety.
    Marco_Trevisiol

    Sometimes funny but too silly and sloppy

    The comedy farce 'She'll Have To Go' about a pair of brothers who - when their indulgent lifestyle is threatened - plan murder, starts off quite brightly.

    The dialogue between the brothers and their butler is fairly sharp and lively with some good chuckles to be had. Alas, director Asher doesn't seem to have confidence in the material as he inserts various 'wacky' visual tricks that are jarring and irritating.

    In anycase the film gets weaker the longer it goes on. Notwithstanding Hattie Jaques' amusing performance, her journalist character could have easily been excised from the film without anything being lost. And the final 20 minutes or so are particularly tedious and dreary.

    The film does gain an extra level of interest though with Anna Karina's presence and not just because she does well in her role. To see someone who is on the verge of becoming an icon of the cutting-edge French New Wave appear in an old-hat British stage farce mixed with a dollop of 'Carry On' style bawdy humour is curiously fascinating.
    drednm

    Hattie Jacques Cannot Savie It

    Promising start has two idle brothers (Bob Monkhouse, Alfred Marks) living in genteel poverty in their hideous old manor house in Lambering, UK. They have no money but they do have a butler (Dennis Lotis). When a relative dies, they expect to inherit a fortune but discover the money has been left to a distant and unknown cousin in Corsica. They devise several plots to murder her, assuming she'll be an old hag. When Anna Karina shows up as cousin Toni, their thoughts turn to marriage instead. But she has other ideas.

    Sort of a take on the classic comedy THE LADYKILLERS, the brothers go through a series of inept murder attempts of which the beauteous cousin seems unaware. Only fitfully funny, especially since Karina and her character are not funny at all. Things liven up a bit when a loony reporter (Hattie Jacques) pops in to get a story for her magazine, but she's not in enough scenes.

    Bright supporting bits from Graham Stark as the dour photographer, Peter Butterworth as the myopic doctor, Clive Dunn as the chemist, and Pat Coombs as the lady at the railway station. That might be Dennis Lotis singing the horrid theme song. Story is based on a play.

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      Bizarrely, released in the UK on a double bill with the X-rated horror Night of the Eagle. It was advertised as a "double SCREAM programme; scream with fear /scream with laughter".
    • Soundtracks
      Serenata Corsica
      (uncredited)

      Music by Philip Green

      Lyrics by Sonny Miller

      Performed by Anna Karina

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    • Release date
      • June 12, 1962 (Sweden)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • She'll Have to Go
    • Filming locations
      • MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK
    • Production company
      • Asher Brothers Productions
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      • 1h 29m(89 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White

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