Holds Up Well

I was apprehensive about renting this but it holds up very well. Hay is the perfect comic character, a real contradiction, one we both laugh with and at. He's the stern, judicious type who is also an outright crook, often to cover up his own incompetence. He has mastered the art of the double take and a fine line in sarcasm, usually directed at his hapless assistants, the portly younger one's gulping indignant voice a dead ringer for the Lost Boys in Disney's Peter Pan. This is the film where we get to meet the ancient Graham Moffitt's even more ancient father, in a scene surely borrowed by the bank scene in Mary Poppins and possibly Monty Python. Great stuff.