In the 1990s, a US computer giant was forced to ban a poster of a gingerbread man popular with its female employees. The caption read: 'The ideal man. He's sweet, he's quiet - and if he talks back ...

The problem was, in reality, more complicated; it got a poor release here (rather than no release), no poster, and a few poor reviews. Directed by British stalwart Mike Hodges, Croupier mushroomed ...