The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:30:51 | 4,01 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Comedy, Crime
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:30:51 | 4,01 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Director: Cliff Owen
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armored car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
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Before he became a superstar best known for his matchless ability to morph into a character of any nationality and unrivaled spin as the world’s greatest bungling detective, Peter Sellers was a hot property and household name in Great Britain.
A man of obvious and exceptional comic talents, Sellers had already proven his acting virtuosity in films such as “The Ladykillers,” “The Mouse That Roared” and director Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita.”
Two years later, Sellers would inaugurate the irrepressible Inspector Clouseau in “A Shot in the Dark,” creating one of cinema’s most memorable and popular characters. Even greater success followed with “The Pink Panther” and “Dr. Strangelove,” the latter giving rise to Sellers’ undisputed tour dé force, a trifecta of character creations never equaled by another actor.
In between Clouseau and “Dr. Strangelove” came “The Wrong Arm of the Law,” a staple of Sellers’ fashionable cool, delivered within the context of a group of good-natured criminals operating in trendy London.
Once again, Sellers plays two parts, of sorts. By day, he’s Jules, owner of a smart, stylish, highly profitable women’s dress boutique, by night and in reality, he’s Pearly Gate, leader of a gang of likeable thieves.
It’s fun to see director Cliff Owen putting Sellers and a host of accomplished, journeyman British performers on display in the hip streets of London, involved in various hi-jinks and Keystone Cops-style shenanigans. There are even a few moments of highly creative filmmaking, particularly during a scene in which a rendezvous serves as a backdrop for some nifty cross-cutting technique.
Things really get going when a group of outsiders impersonating policemen start heisting the booty from Gates’ extracurricular activities, and a scheme is hatched to foil the impersonators. That scheme involves joining forces with rival gangs and Scotland Yard, and it is with this development that the humor accelerates (with a bit of slapstick thrown in for good measure).
From its clever title sequence to its final twist, all the while underscored by Richard Rodney Bennett’s modern, jazzy melodies, “The Wrong Arm of the Law” is a movie of a kind not made anymore.
…..and clever! A band of crooks are dressing up as police and stealing the booty from other crooks who are on the job. The criminal underground are outraged and of course the real police are none too happy that there are crooks out there impersonating them. So together they plot to capture these uncouth brigands. Practically every scene is hilarious, and there's lots of fun movie references (such as an instructional movie viewing session for the criminals that includes such caper classics as RIFIFI and THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN).
It would be difficult to pick one Peter Sellers film as my favourite but this one would most likely get my first vote!IMDB Reviewer
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