CROOKS ANONYMOUS is a British comedy of 1962 that manages to waste the talents of a wide-ranging comic cast, many of whom are familiar from classics of the day. This one stars an amusing Leslie Phillips as a man addicted to theft; he joins the titular organisation in order to rid himself of his habit, but things don't go quite according to plan. This is a film whose original storyline is much better than the script, which is devoid of laughs and intelligence. Sure, it's fun watching a debuting Julie Christie and the likes of Norman Rossington, James Robertson Justice, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Michael Medwin doing their best, but the truth is that they're having more fun than the viewer is.
Review of Crooks Anonymous
