''The Mini-Affair'' (originally titled ''The Mini-Mob'') is a 1968 British

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film directed by Robert Amram and starring

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, Rosemary Nicols and John Clive. Music is provided by the

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Plot summary

A leading

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and a pirate DJ are kidnapped by a trio of girls in

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who are desperate for marriage.

Cast

as Georgie Hart * Rosemary Nicols as Charlotte * John Clive as Joe *

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 *

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 *

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 * Clive Dunn as Tyson *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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

* 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 {{romantic-comedy-film-stub