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Just Ask for Diamond
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Wikipedia article
'Just Ask for Diamond', alternatively titled 'Diamond's Edge', is a 1988 British comedy crime film directed by Stephen Bayly and starring Colin Dale, Saeed Jaffrey and Dursley McLinden.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090117142555/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/418778 BFI.org] It is based on 'The Falcon's Malteser' (1986), the first book of The Diamond Brothers series written by Anthony Horowitz.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395275/otherworks
Plot summary
A pair of brothers are paid to take care of a confectionery box, but soon come under pressure from various people seeking its contents.
Nicholas Simple (aka Nick Diamond) is more like the brains than his detective brother Herbert Timothy Simple, aka Tim Diamond, inc. Because when a dwarf enters with a secret package, nearly all the crooks in England are out to get the brothers, and just because of a confectionery package. Nick and Tim soon break their promise to the dwarf, and open the secret package. Soon they find out that the secret package actually is a box of malteasers. Belonging to an international criminal named Henry von Falkenberg, or The Falcon, a secret opening a very precious treasure belonging to the dead criminal.
Later, the dwarf is found dead, and Tim is blamed for it. Nick spends time in jail with him, and they join old chief Inspectors Snape and Boyle. Soon they are threatened by criminals, sent to jail, wanted for murder, wanted for disturbance, nearly killed, kidnapped, given concrete trainers, bullied by punk criminals and invited by women who keep crocodiles for pets. If all these criminals are after a small box of chocolates, this must mean that it is a serious mystery the two have to solve, and this should be a case for Tim Diamond, but is it just him, or his is it his kid brother's help with succession, and together will the Diamond Brothers solve a crime that is tougher than thought?
Home media
In 1989, the film was released on VHS. The UK version is thought to have been converted directly from the cinema reels although the American VHS, which was titled "Diamond's Edge" had removed substantial amount of Colin Dale's voiceover and some violent scenes. They are each 89 and 80 minutes in length, respectively. In 2002 the US VHS was converted to DVD.
Cast
* Saeed Jaffrey - Mr. Patel
* Dursley McLinden - Herbert Timothy Simple alias Tim Diamond
* Colin Dale - Nick Simple/Nick Diamond
* Jos Ren Ruiz - Johnny Naples
* Michael Robbins - Fat Man
* Patricia Hodge - Betty Charlady / Brenda von Falkenberg
* Jim McManus - Hammett
* Jimmy Nail - Boyle
* Roy Kinnear - Jack Splendide
* Bill Paterson - Chief Inspector Snape
* Forbes Collins - Henry von Falkenberg
* Peter Eyre - Gott
* Nickolas Grace - Himmell
* Susannah York - Lauren Bacardi
References
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