Kath (Beryl Reid) lives in a large house (within the grounds of a cemetery!) with her Father (Dada) played by Alan Webb. She meets the handsome, unscrupulous Mr Sloane (Peter McEnery) in the graveyard and encourages him to become her lodger. After flirting outrageously with Sloane ("they make garments so thin nowadays, you'd think they almost intended to provoke a rape...) she manages to seduce him. However, her Brother Ed (Harry Andrews) also takes a shine to the young lodger who leads him on, happy to run both Ed and Kath in tandem. Unfortunately Dada puts a spanner in the works when he recognises Mr Sloane as the person who killed his ex-employer and confronts him with it.


A wonderful film adaptation of Joe Orton's play. Beryl Reid is hysterically funny as the ageing Kath in her see-through dress, pretending that her interest in her handsome lodger is merely maternal ("Just a MOTHERLY kiss....") while Harry Andrews offers great support as her Brother, who is also in denial about his real intentions, even though he takes Sloane on as his chauffeur and dresses him from head-to-toe in leather! Alan Webb plays their pickled onion addicted Father to perfection whilst Peter McEnery is an attractive Mr Sloane who thinks he has his future all sewn up....