Acting
Simon and Doug Phillips commit to magnificent idiocy.
Writing
Dialogue that somehow respects and mocks true crime.
Director
Paul Tanter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual 1978 Chaplin body snatching involved a Bulgarian refugee and a Pole; the ransom note misspelled 'corpse' as 'corpes.'
Director Paul Tanter specializes in British crime capers so niche they feel like fever dreams—this is his most historically grounded, which says everything.
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