Crooks and Coronets

Crooks and Coronets is a 1969 British crime comedy film andor heist movie written and directed by Jim OConnolly. It starred Telly Savalas, Edith Evans, Warren Oates, Cesar Romero and Harry H. Corbett. The film was renamed as Sophies Place for the US market.

The Radio Times wrote, strange casting a sort of Carry On meets The Dirty Dozen gives the film a certain interest, not to mention eccentricity...but the overall tone is far too frantic and full of those terribly dated, Swinging Sixties fads and fashions. while Allmovie described the film as a delightful crime comedy and Sky Movies wrote, at times, the pace is as sedate as the English aristocracy portrayed but the magnificently lunatic climax is worth waiting for, as crooks...are finally repulsed by a concerted counterattack involving crossbows, a lion, and Edith Evans at the controls of a vintage German plane. It has to be said that Dame Edith has no trouble in beating the Americans at the acting game, either.

Source: Wikipedia