Rating: 
Summary: Funny, naughty, and like an extended "Python" sketch.
Review: This forty minute feature, which appears like an extended
"Python" sketch, but is based on a short story by Chekov, features John Cleese, and the lovely Connie Booth [not sure if they were married to each other at the time] but as a musician and a princess. She goes off to "skinny dip" and so does he.
A thief takes, no wait, you've got to see it. There's a bit of "naughty" bits; which were more naughty than could ever be shown on "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Ms. Booth looked stunning, and Cleese, merely tall, and nakie, but overall, it was funny, or at least mildly amusing, which may not be to everyone's taste (or lack of it). Worth a look.
Rating:
Summary: Funny, naughty, and like an extended "Python" sketch.
Review: This forty minute feature, which appears like an extended
"Python" sketch, but is based on a short story by Chekov, features John Cleese, and the lovely Connie Booth [not sure if they were married to each other at the time] but as a musician and a princess. She goes off to "skinny dip" and so does he.
A thief takes, no wait, you've got to see it. There's a bit of "naughty" bits; which were more naughty than could ever be shown on "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Ms. Booth looked stunning, and Cleese, merely tall, and nakie, but overall, it was funny, or at least mildly amusing, which may not be to everyone's taste (or lack of it). Worth a look.
Rating: 
Summary: A comedy of class and timing
Review: This is a movie that could appeal to almost anybody. Bassists will probably get a bit extra out of it, but it is by no means lost on non-bassist. Great soundtrack too.
Rating:
Summary: great flick
Review: This is a movie that could appeal to almost anybody. Bassists will probably get a bit extra out of it, but it is by no means lost on non-bassist. Great soundtrack too.
Rating:
Summary: Cleese at his absolute finest
Review: When this aired many years ago I was spending an evening alone, with nothing to do, and bummed out about it. This came on, and so completely turned me around I was smiling for days. John Cleese's absurdity gets its full range here, and his wife at the time, Connie Booth, co-stars. A period piece, Cleese is a bass player, who is quite inept. His big break is to play for the princess' engagement party. Unfortunately he goes for a swim in a nearby lake, and his clothes are stolen. The same theif takes the princess' clothes. Finding each other, stark naked, they must make their way to the castle, retrieve her clothes, and still make his rehearsal for the big event. But it is the small touches, as always, that make this so memorable. It's a wonderful piece. Go for it.
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