Nothing But the Best is a biting social satire directed by Clive Donner (What’s New Pussycat, The Caretaker) and scripted by later Academy Award winner Frederic Raphael (Darling, Far From The Madding Crowd).  Winner of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Screenplay for Raphael, cinematographer Nic Roeg also earnt a BAFTA-Award nomination for cinematography, a few years before embarking on a directorial career. 

Alan Bates (Far From the Madding Crowd, The Go-Between) stars as an ambitious young real-estate clerk determined to crawl his way to the top of the social pile, with Denholm Elliott (A Room with a View, Raiders of The Lost Ark) playing the disreputable aristocrat who teaches him all he needs to know and Millicent Martin (Alfie, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines) as the girl he sets out to woo and win. 

Nothing But The Best was perhaps overlooked at the time by audiences and critics alike due to the rise of British New Wave cinema, but now seems pleasingly ahead of its time and as fresh as it was 60 years ago.