The Admirable Crichton is a very British ... whimsy, and melodrama. As Crichton, Kenneth More is proper--yet moving. Cecil Parker is a blusteringly good Lord Loam and Sally Howes is not only ...

(1957) Comedy. Kenneth More stars as the perfect butler, who assumes command when he, his aristocratic employer (Cecil Parker) and his family and friends are ...

Crichton must be judged by what he achieved in Genoa, Venice, Padna, and Milan. All other knowledge of his exploits is denied the serious student of history. At Paris, Rome, and Mantua he ...

It is 1905 and Lord Loam is a point of division within his own household. A Liberal, he yearns for greater equality throughout society: something much of his family, and most of his servants - not ...

His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant ...