Julia Finsbury (Nanette Newman): ‘My father was a missionary. He was eaten by his Bible class.’

Producer-director Bryan Forbes’s unusual and likeable, delightfully daft 1966 British period screwball dark comedy is ‘suggested by’ Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne’s endearing Victorian fantasy novel about a family’s madcap scramble for an immense inheritance. The interesting plot is about a ‘tontine’ that is established for the dozen children of a family, the Finsburys. A sum of money is put in for each child and it grows with interest over the years and the last survivor will get the whole pot of gold.

The years go by and, finally, only two brothers are left alive...

‘We’re looking for someone younger.’

‘We’re looking for someone older.’

‘We’re looking for someone else.’

With just a delicious bitter-sweet touch of romance and a poignant back flavour, Sydney Pollack’s witty and charming 1982 drag comedy is a hilarious laughter-raiser – the finest and most enduringly popular since Some Like It Hot in 1959.

A brilliant Dustin Hoffman gives a stupendous performance as Michael Dorsey, an out-of-work Manhattan actor with a reputation for being difficult, who comes up with a radical solution to the problem...