''The Mini-Affair'' (originally titled ''The Mini-Mob'') is a 1968 British
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...
film directed by Robert Amram and starring
Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell; 26 June 1943) is an English R&B and jazz musician. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still performing, often working with contemporaries such as Alan Price, Van Morrison and Bill Wyman. Fame is the only B ...
,
Rosemary Nicols and
John Clive.
Music is provided by the
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees
were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry Gibb, Barry, Robin Gibb, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was especially successful in popular music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers in ...
.
Plot summary
A leading
pop star
A pop icon is a celebrity, character, or object whose exposure in popular culture is regarded as constituting a defining characteristic of a given society or era. The usage of the term is largely subjective since there are no definitively object ...
and a
pirate DJ are kidnapped by a trio of girls in
swinging London
The Swinging Sixties was a youth-driven cultural revolution that took place in the United Kingdom during the mid-to-late 1960s, emphasising modernity and fun-loving hedonism, with Swinging London denoted as its centre. It saw a flourishing in ...
who are desperate for marriage.
Cast
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Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell; 26 June 1943) is an English R&B and jazz musician. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still performing, often working with contemporaries such as Alan Price, Van Morrison and Bill Wyman. Fame is the only B ...
as Georgie Hart
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Rosemary Nicols as Charlotte
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John Clive as Joe
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Bernard Archard
Bernard Joseph Archard (20 August 1916 – 1 May 2008) was an English actor who made many film and television appearances.
Early life and career
Archard was born in Fulham, London, where his father Alfred James Aloysius, who was born in Maryle ...
as Sir Basil Grinling
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Lucille Soong
Lucille Soong (born September 5, 1935) is a Chinese-American actress. In the 1960s she occasionally worked under the stage name Soong Ling. She is best known for her role as Jenny Huang in the television series '' Fresh Off the Boat'' (2015–2 ...
as Lucille
* Rick Dane as Mike Maroon
*
Julian Curry as Ronnie
* Gretchen Regan as Marianne
*
Madeline Smith as Samantha
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Clement Freud
Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 1924 – 15 April 2009) was a British media personality, broadcaster, writer, politician and chef. The son of Ernst L. Freud and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Clement moved to the United Kingdom from Nazi Germany ...
as Stephen Catchpole
*
Totti Truman Taylor as Aunt Grace
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Clive Dunn as Tyson
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Roy Kinnear
Roy Mitchell Kinnear (8 January 1934 – 20 September 1988) was an English character actor and comedian. He was known for his acting roles in movies such as Henry Salt in the 1971 film ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'', Algernon in The Be ...
as fire extinguisher salesman
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Eric Pohlmann
Eric Pohlmann (; born Erich Pollak; 18 July 1913 – 25 July 1979) was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. He is known for voicing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the primary antagonist of t ...
as world banker
*
William Rushton as Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Irene Handl
Irene Handl () (27 December 1901 – 29 November 1987) was a British character actress who appeared in more than 100 British films; she also wrote novels.
Life
Irene Handl was born in Maida Vale, London, the younger of two daughters of an Aus ...
as cook in Chinese restaurant
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Guy Middleton
Guy Middleton Powell (14 December 1907 – 30 July 1973), better known as Guy Middleton, was an English film character actor.
Biography
Guy Middleton was born in Hove, Sussex, and originally worked in the London Stock Exchange, before tur ...
as Colonel Highwater
*
Ben Aris
Benjamin Patrick Aris (16 March 1937 – 4 September 2003) was an English actor who was best known for his parts in '' Hi-de-Hi!'' and '' To the Manor Born'', and was also very active on stage. He was often cast as an eccentric, upper-class ...
as TV producer
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Milton Reid
Milton Rutherford Reid (29 April 1917 – c. 1987) was a British-Indian actor and professional wrestler. He was born in India, the son of a Scottish-born Customs and Excise inspector and an Indian woman. He wrestled in England under the name of ...
as fisherman
References
External links
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1968 films
1968 romantic comedy films
British romantic comedy films
Films set in London
1960s English-language films
1960s British films
English-language romantic comedy films
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