Innocents Abroad
MAY I HAVE THE TREASURE? the new NZBS serial by John Jowett (of Crooks’ Tour fame), is delightful proof that the pudding’s just as good when made with locally processed ingredients. One was agreeably haunted by the ghosts of Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne. In the new serial it’s Boulcott and Plumley, played by David Kohn and Alfred Farrell, instead of Woolcott and Spenser (Radford and Wayne), but all four are blood-brothers. May I Have the Treasure? is John Jowett’s usual recipe, the old and wellloved joke of the innocents strolling casually through the fire, which they haven’t the nous to recognise as such, while professional fire-walkers and angels suffer cold feet at the edge. There are the usual trimmings, plenty of corpses (four in Episode I, which is ¢ despatching even by Jowett standards), and Ria Sohier’s very attractive French piéce de resistance,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 10
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145Innocents Abroad New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 791, 17 September 1954, Page 10
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