What Goes Up ...

Rating: 5/10 (26 July 2016)

Like the man said there's nothing new under the sun and this is one of the oldest stories in the book, in fact there's a nice touch of irony in the casting of Leonard Rossiter in the early Irish scenes, Rossiter, of course, was the eponymous Perrin in The Rise And Fall Of Reginald Perrin and this is basically the same banal plot with a couple of million thrown at it. We also saw it done much better in black and white yet back in 1947 or so in Nightmare Alley where Tyrone Power rose from a carnival huckster to a well-paid society entertainer and ended up as a geek in a similar carnival. Okay, this time around we get some lavish backgrounds modelled on the Old Masters but at the end of it all it's just the mixture as before.