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I love vintage British film comedies, and this is a good one. Farce specialist Brian Rix plays 'Bertie', an incompetent, Brighton-based antiques expert who works for 'Cecil', a crooked dealer played ( in his final film role ) by Ronald Shiner. Cecil cons people into buying worthless items of junk in the mistaken belief they are priceless antiques. After getting into trouble with a local gangster ( John Slater ), Cecil dies in a van crash, and Bertie winds up married to the dead man's dippy wife 'Julie' ( Dora Bryan ). But there is a nasty shock in store for Bertie on the wedding night - Cecil has been reincarnated as a parrot!Like all good farces, this is amusingly scripted and played to the hilt by a sterling cast which includes Irene Handl, Liz Fraser, Terry Scott, Reginald Beckwith, John Le Mesurier, Leo Franklyn, and Robertson Hare. Kynaston Reeves also has a decent role as a tone deaf Justice Of The Peace called 'Warre-Monger'. Adapted from the Basil Thomas play 'The Lovebirds' by Ray Cooney, Terry Hilton, and Darcy Conyers ( who also directed ), it is rollicking good fun. Dated? Well, of course it is. So what? A good film is still a good film even if was made fifty-two years ago. It is a very sad person indeed who does not laugh at the sight of Irene Handl proudly displaying a lavatory seat on her living room wall because she believes it to be a valuble French mirror!Rix made a number of movies around this time, including 'And The Same To You' ( with Tommy Cooper ), 'The Night We Dropped A Clanger' ( with Leslie Phillips ), and 'Dry Rot' ( with Sid James ). This is, I believe, the best of them. Ideal Sunday afternoon entertainment!