Le Club des Libertins
The Best House in London
Release: 1969-06-01
·Runtime: 97m
·★ 3.6
Comédie
Dans l'Angleterre puritaine de la fin du XIXe siècle, Benjamin Oakes, publicitaire peu scrupuleux, imagine un plan qui devrait s'avérer fort lucratif. En effet, la prostitution est interdite par la loi mais envahit les rues de Londres. Oakes est convaincu qu'il peut tirer parti de la situation. Il se lance dans une campagne de persuasion auprès du ministre de l'Intérieur afin d'autoriser les maisons closes. Celles-ci seraient évidemment surveillées - et cofinancées - par le gouvernement. Rapidement, l'opinion publique s'émeut. Pendant ce temps, Walter Leybourne, sincèrement concerné par le sort réservé aux prostituées, lutte pour améliorer leurs conditions de vie.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Bridge Productions
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Cast
George Sanders
as Sir Francis Leybourne
Dany Robin
as Babette
Bill Fraser
as Inspector MacPherson
Clement Freud
as Mr. Mason
Jan Holden
as Lady Dilke
John Cleese
as Jones (uncredited)
Veronica Carlson
as Lilly (uncredited)
Charles Lloyd Pack
as Second Petitioner (uncredited)
Betty Marsden
as Felicity
Margaret Nolan
as Busty Prostitute (uncredited)
Maurice Denham
as Editor, The Times
Tessie O'Shea
as Music Hall Singer
Penny Spencer
as Evelyn (uncredited)
Queenie Watts
as Old Crone (uncredited)
Joanna Pettet
as Josephine Pacefoot
William Rushton
as Sylvester Wall
Avril Angers
as Flora's Mother
Martita Hunt
as Headmistress
Arnold Diamond
as Charles Dickens
Ferdy Mayne
as First Petitioner (uncredited)
Joe Lynch
as Policeman (uncredited)
William Mervyn
as Cabinet Minister (uncredited)
David Hemmings
as Benjamin Oakes / Walter Leybourne
Warren Mitchell
as Count Pandolfo
John Bird
as Home Secretary
Peter Jeffrey
as Sherlock Holmes (uncredited)
Milton Reid
as Henchman (uncredited)
Jessie Robins
as Machinist (uncredited)
Eric Barker
as (uncredited)
Marianne Stone
as Machinist (uncredited)
Hugh Burden
as Lord Tennyson
Thorley Walters
as Doctor Watson (uncredited)
