What a shame! I suppose I was taking a chance watching this again after all this time but I had such memories of it. Boisterous, bold and fast moving with imaginative film techniques and wonderful performances all around as girls raised their skirts and Finney dropped his pants. Well, not really. Viewed today this is rather embarrassing. Everyone apart from Susannah York and Albert Finney over act like mad and encouraged by the director with silly camera effects, thousands of 'wipes', awful asides direct to camera this is more like a pantomime. True, the eating sequence is quite brilliant and for absolute lasciviousness never been beaten. The hunting scenes, chaotic and brutal are also effective but for the rest it appears to have been conceived, acted and directed by over excited schoolboys who couldn't get over the sheer excitement of being allowed to say 'bastard'. Tiresome.