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- Christine Russell
- (as Paddy O'Neil)
- Themselves
- (as Felix Mendelssohn and His Hawaiian Serenaders)
- Stagehand
- (uncredited)
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The Goons first movie together is slightly better than there's second attempt at making one (Down Among the Z Men), and the characters is also slightly funnier, and the whole thing is just more lively in a way, but not perfect by a mile, most of the jokes fall flat, and sometimes it's just boring to look at. I frequently ask myself why Milligan and Secombe didn't gave the leading role to Sellers, it's obviously him that rule at being fun, it's hard to understand but there must have been a reason... and yes the story is pretty thin.
Sellers himself didn't like the movie at all, actually this was what he said about it... "It really was a terrifyingly bad film!' As you will see when you watch it" (sentence remembered by Vic Pratt, one of Sellers friends), I wouldn't use the same words as Sellers, I would rather say it's 60% bad and 40% good, because it's not utterly bad, but also it isn't so good that you want to buy it, it's more like a movie you rent, and just watch because it's Peter Sellers first feature film... if your a fan of him or The Goons, it's a (MUST-SEE)
- jonasskjoett
- Sep 23, 2010
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Storyline
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- TriviaShot in three weeks.
- Quotes
The Major: You'd never think it, would you?
Bartender: Think what, sir?
The Major: Well, they... They all seem to have contracted the dreadful affliction.
Bartender: What affliction, sir?
The Major: Spondulicks. Oh, a most pernicious disease. The natives used to get in in their bazaars.
Bartender: A very nasty place to get it, sir.
The Major: The worst, yes. They used to go mad and bite dogs. We had to shoot them.
Bartender: Really?
The Major: Yes. Sometimes we had to shoot the dogs, as well.
Bartender: Were they mad?
The Major: Well, they weren't very pleased about it, you know.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Unknown Peter Sellers (2000)
Details
- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1