The Admirable Crichton

The Admirable Crichton

The Hilarious Story of What the Girls Saw in the Butler...

195794 min6.9 / 10

A witty, warm-hearted satire of class hierarchy that uses shipwreck and island survival to test social assumptions, grounded in romantic comedy and period charm.

Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.

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