The Secret Of My Success
(1987)
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Young Brantley Foster is fresh out of college, and determined to climb New York's corporate ladder in a record time by masquerading as an up-and-coming executive, even though he's really the new mail boy. Love and romance don't seem to mix with business, no matter how much everybody tries...... |
Yet another in the seemingly endless parade of lacklustre British comedies, this features James Booth as a naive, garrulous mother's boy who starts the film as a PC and ends up unwittingly helping to overthrow a foreign dictator, becoming a hero in the process. The film owes much to Voltaire's Candide but it's just not very funny, though James Booth is generally worth watching, and Lionel Jeffries gets to play four roles in what was the Kind Hearts and Coronets style then.
Halliwell's Film Guide
An amiable melange of familiar situations with just a touch of Midnight Cowboy and a sharp edge to some of the writing; but not enough to keep its star at the top.