The Best House in London is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Philip Saville and starring David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Warren Mitchell, John Bird, Maurice Denham and Bill Fraser.
Concurrently, Sir Francis' orphaned young adult niece, Josephine Pacefoot, heads the League of Social Purity, a reformist organization aimed at giving streetwalkers technical skills to get them out of prostitution.
She has recently joined forces with Benjamin Oakes, a freelance publicist, his current primary contract to publicize the work of Italian Count Pandolfo who is building an airship i.e. a dirigible.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A kind of omnibus collection of mock-Victoriana, Denis Norden's original screenplay for The Best House in London revels in a sunny disrespect for the life and times.
...The film has an ample supply of nude bosoms and there is a chase sequence through the 'men's club,' revealing perverted pleasures not to be equaled on the screen since Shelley Winters set up housekeeping in The Balcony [1963]. ...