4/10
Welcome to the land of tea and trumpets.
21 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Everything happens to Sach, whether gaining a singing voice like Perry Como, becoming both professional boxers and college football heroes, and gaining the ability to see the future. Of course, they are all for brief periods of time, each miraculous happening for Sach forgotten by the beginning of the next film.

Here, Hubtz Hall's Sach gains, not only a full knowledge of British history (disproving Slip's claim about King Henry V8) but a claim to a British estate as well. Of course, a Bowery Boy spouting historical knowledge is still a mug, not a proper English lord. Sach and the boys (and Louie of course....) find themselves out of their element in dealing with both the upper-crust, their servants and several common folk whose dialects they can't comprehend even though it is in the same language.

Don't underestimate the craftiness of the British nobility with such esteemed British character actors such as Walter Kingsford as the family patriarch, John Dodsworth and Norma Varden as scheming older members of the family and pretty Angela Greene as a relative willing to do anything to discredit this interloper. The result is a sort of reverse "Pygmalion" with Sach giving a twist to Eliza Doolittle. "Downton Abbey" may have had its share of strange visitors, but these New Yorkers certainly takes the Shepard's pie.
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