Make Mine Mink is a 1960 British comedy farce film directed by Robert Asher and featuring Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques and Billie Whitelaw.
The screenplay concerns a group of eccentric misfits who go on a crime spree, stealing mink coats for charity in a Robin Hood-style gang.
A group of lodgers – Major Rayne, Nanette ("Nan") and "Pinkie" Pinkerton – staying at the Kensington apartment of Dame Beatrice, an elderly philanthropist, are bored with their humdrum, restricted lives.
The Major, pretending he is writing a book on delinquency, gets Lily to direct him to a shady café in Limehouse in search of a fence.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Another in the current cycle of comedies about organised crime, Make Mine Mink is by no means original yet manages to whip up several tense and amusing sequences.
The most successful of these rely on visual rather than verbal humour – Terry-Thomas searching for a fence, Athene Seyler at a gambling party.
The dialogue, in fact, is the film's weakest feature, depending as it does on double entendres, wisecracks and leisurely aspidistra-and-antimacassar humour.
The larger-than-life playing of Athene Seyler, Terry-Thomas and Hattie Jacques conflicts with Billie Whitelaw's completely different style of warm-hearted naturalism, so that the film tends to disintegrate into a series of funny sketches, very weakly linked.
"[3] Bosley Crowther, critic for The New York Times, gave it a generally favourable review, writing, "it has bumpy stretches where the script writer's clumsy jointing shows.