Review of Sophie's Place

I didn't expect a classic English comedy along the lines of the films that Peter Sellers, Terry Thomas and Leslie Phillips made but I didn't expect C&C to be as bad as it is. The cast is excellent with American power (Cesar Romero and Telly Savalas partnered with Warren Oates? Fantastic.) and I recognized many excellent Brit performers from TV and films such as Nicky Henson but they couldn't save this mess. Casting Savalas and Oates as two screw-ups doesn't work either. Poorly photographed in dreary colors, poor audio and a slow-moving, unfunny script had me shutting it off several times until I eventually finished it to the let's-get-it-over ending. To be fair, the version TCM showed (9/24/19) was full-screen so who knows what they were forced to use. The film was shot in 1.66:1. The location is excellent but that's the only praise I can grant. There's a salacious piece of footage straight out of a Carry On film when Oates leers at Vickery Turner (Mrs. Warren Oates for a few years) who's milking a cow, the camera focusing on her legs and her hands.