richardchatten
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Communist Cuba in the 1960s is not exactly the place that you'd expect to produce a satire on bureaucracy. But the spirit of Harold Lloyd was kept alive by this singular farce, which manages to be both harrowing and funny, in which our hero (SLIGHT SPOILERS COMING:) begins by needing to recover his father's union card - sentimentally buried in the old man's coffin - and somehow finds himself perched on a window ledge surrounded by gawpers convinced he's threatening to jump.
The only 'Carry On' to star Ted Ray is much more benign than usual, the affection of his pupils motivating much of their mischief.
The film also contains a pair of fine romances between Kenneth Connor & Rosalind Knight and Leslie Philips & Joan Sims; the latter allowed a more robust personality than usual as the games mistress, especially when drunk.
While Charles Hawtrey as the music teacher Mr Bean - "the Malcolm Sargent of Maudlin" - gets to proudly conduct his own composition at the school concert.
The film also contains a pair of fine romances between Kenneth Connor & Rosalind Knight and Leslie Philips & Joan Sims; the latter allowed a more robust personality than usual as the games mistress, especially when drunk.
While Charles Hawtrey as the music teacher Mr Bean - "the Malcolm Sargent of Maudlin" - gets to proudly conduct his own composition at the school concert.
The film that ended Peter Sellars' film career with a whimper rather than a bang like most of of his later vehicles sounds a lot more fun than it actually is.
Due to Sellars' increasingly notorious interest solely in his own role and a complete lack of thought for the film itself; despite superior production values - including production design by Alexander Trauner - and flanked by a cast of familiar faces, with a classy leading lady in the sumptuous form of Helen Mirren the film now languishes in deserved obscurity.
Due to Sellars' increasingly notorious interest solely in his own role and a complete lack of thought for the film itself; despite superior production values - including production design by Alexander Trauner - and flanked by a cast of familiar faces, with a classy leading lady in the sumptuous form of Helen Mirren the film now languishes in deserved obscurity.
