Come Play With Me (1977)

aka: David Sullivan’s Come Play With Me

Cornelius Clapworthy (Harrison Marks) and his sidekick Maurice Kelly (Alfie Bass) are two elderly forgers responsible for flooding the UK with fake banknotes. On the run from their gangster boss Slasher (Ronald Fraser) and effeminate, cross dressing government official Podsnap (Ken Parry) the pair escape to the Scottish Highlands and posing as musicians hide out at Bovington Manor, a Bed & Breakfast run by Lady Bovington (Irene Handl). Complications ensue as Lady Bovington’s choreographer nephew Rodney and his troupe of dancing girls arrive at the manor. Also with Mary Millington.

Adult British film star Mary Millington had always been prone to neurosis and depression, which was exacerbated by her cocaine habit. On August 19th, 1979, Millington committed suicide by ingesting a deliberate overdose of tricyclic antidepressant anafranil, paracetamol and alcohol, at her home in Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, England. She left four suicide notes, which were found near her body. In one of them she had written, “The police have framed me yet again. They frighten me so much. I cant face the thought of prison…The Nazi tax man has finished me as well.” Apparently, her life had begun a downward spiral into drug use and depression, following repeated raids on her sex shop. A few months prior to her death, she had received a large tax bill, which she was unable to pay. Her kleptomania also became more pronounced in the last year of her life, with arrests for shoplifting in June of 1979, and again for stealing a necklace the day before her death. She was 33.