is a 1954 Eastmancolor British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Peter Finch, Adrienne Corri, Rosalie Crutchley and Finlay Currie.

On a childhood trip to the British Museum, young Charlie falls instantly in love with the Portland Vase, and his passion for it leads to him eventually becoming a dealer in English pottery.

Whilst still a boy he sees a newspaper cutting that describes the theft, 50 years before in 1886, of art treasures, including a perfect green Portland Vase created by Josiah Wedgwood in 1783.

Lacking funds, he turns to Abe Sparta, a successful businessman and the owner of the house in which Charlie, his wife Bella and their two children live.

When she demands £150, however, Charlie goes to Sir John and persuades him to perform the first good deed of his life and give him the vase for nothing (the rightful owner having died and left no heir).

[11] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This new Group 3 production starts with the advantage of a fresh background – the antique business, which the author of the original novel, Wolf Mankowitz, knows well – and some ingeniously contrived situations.

Both script and direction are somewhat laborious; the latter has a strenuous brightness, particularly in the scenes between Charlie and his wife, done with an ostentatious naturalistic and "intimate " technique which appears very false.

Peter Finch does not seem altogether at ease as Charlie; Adrienne Corri and Rosalie Crutchley flounder as Nicky and Bella; and Ernest Thesiger, as the somnolent but wicked Sir John, contributes an authentically bizarre and entertaining character sketch.

"[12] British film critic Leslie Halliwell said: "Mildly pleasant Jewish comedy with interesting sidelights on the antique business.

"[14] Sky Movies called it an "Engaging comedy", with an "amusing script", concluding, "Far from least, there's that splendid veteran Ernest Thesiger, here as a great-great-grandfather whose past life has not been exactly without reproach...".

[15] The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther described it and another film on a double bill as "unpretentious British comedies.