Ironically the BBC parodied their own adaptation in arts programme The Late Show where they reduced it to two minutes which was actually just as good, if not better and certainly cheaper. Ed Begley seems a little lost in all these while Ed Asner seems to get the brief right, just about staying in the right side of hammy. Ill pay you 100 dollars and not a penny more. The tone is rather camp, the acting is slightly over the top. not a penny less/more idiom : no less or no more than a certain amount of money Ill do the job for 100 dollars and not a penny less. This was an expensive BBC and US co production with several American stars. The men, an Oxford professor, a Harley Street physician, an art dealer and a British aristocrat are conveniently blessed with skills to set up their sting. Four his victims of a stock swindle plot to get their money back from him. Ed Asner plays Metcalfe a ruthless financier and swindler. This is the book this is apparently based on his own experience as Archer was himself made bankrupt in the 1970s however in light of subsequent events about him I guess I would not readily buy into him being an innocent victim. Jeffrey Archer was so chuffed that the BBC wanted to adapt his first novel that he sold the television rights for one penny.
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