Higher and Higher

2/20/2026

The staff at the grand house of “Drake” (Leon Errol) might have known the writing was on the wall when their pay cheques didn’t arrive for the seventh month in a row. Yep! The old man is bust. Not to be beaten, his imaginative valet “O’Brien” (Jack Haley) comes up with quite a wheeze to make them solvent again. The staff are going to perform a bit of George Bernard Shaw on parlour maid “Millie” (Michèle Morgan) and turn her into the eligible daughter of the house and so, hopefully, procure an advantageous marriage with a man who has more money than sense. She turns out to be not half bad at glamming it up, but when dashing young butler Frank Sinatra (no need to give his character another name!) turns up, the cat is swiftly set amongst the pigeons. To be honest, the plot here is almost enti