Aunt Clara (film)

Aunt Clara
UK theatrical poster
Directed by	Anthony Kimmins
Produced by	Anthony Kimmins Colin Lesslie
Written by	Noel Streatfeild (novel) Kenneth Horne
Starring	Ronald Shiner Margaret Rutherford A. E. Matthews Fay Compton
Music by	Benjamin Frankel
Cinematography	C.M. Pennington-Richards
Edited by	Gerald Turney Smith
Production company	Colin Lesslie Productions
Distributed by	British Lion Film Corporation
Release date	22 November 1954
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Aunt Clara is a 1954 British comedy film starring Margaret Rutherford as a woman who inherits a number of shady businesses from a relative. Ronald Shiner, A. E. Matthews, and Fay Compton are also featured. The film was based on the novel of the same name by author Noel Streatfeild, and directed by Anthony Kimmins for London Films.

Clara Hilton (Margaret Rutherford), is a puritanical old lady whose eccentric uncle dies and leaves her five racing greyhounds, a broken-down pub, and a successful brothel. When confronted with her property, Clara is outraged, but shrewdly finds a way to convert the tainted money to good use for a children’s holiday fund. Clara also keeps Simon’s outspoken valet Henry Martin (Ronald Shiner) on to assist her.

'Britmovie' wrote the film "fails to catch fire despite its undoubted charm. Margaret Rutherford plays the eponymous lead but for once her dotty spinster persona is understated and the film contains a suffocating melancholic tone that only resolves itself at the films moving closure"; while TV Guide observed "a charming film dotted with cameos by noted British comics."