richardchatten
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The first of the many cinema features by the Pythons is a larger scale but - compared to their later films - relatively unambitious collection of their original TV sketches.
Seen today the most surprising thing is the almost constant succession of gay jokes; although Carol Cleveland herself later said she felt that the sketch in which she plays a housewife in a diaphanous negligee who (SPOILER COMING:) collects milkmen was probably the sexiest role she ever got to play.
Seen today the most surprising thing is the almost constant succession of gay jokes; although Carol Cleveland herself later said she felt that the sketch in which she plays a housewife in a diaphanous negligee who (SPOILER COMING:) collects milkmen was probably the sexiest role she ever got to play.
An early indication that despite having served his apprenticeship at Gainsborough on the comedies of Will Hay Val Guest's crime films tended to be better than his comedies.
'Murder at the Windmill' rather unsatisfactorily combines elements of both by detailing a police investigation against the backdrop of the variety acts; one of which even manages to feature (SLIGHT SPOILER COMING:) a fleeting appearance by Jon Pertwee doing his impression of Danny Kaye.
'Murder at the Windmill' rather unsatisfactorily combines elements of both by detailing a police investigation against the backdrop of the variety acts; one of which even manages to feature (SLIGHT SPOILER COMING:) a fleeting appearance by Jon Pertwee doing his impression of Danny Kaye.
Leslie Caron presumably only made this ghastly film as she and Warren Beaty were currently an item who'd recently resumed an old affaire.
It does however contain a memorable appearance by a then unknown actor called Donald Sutherland, who although uncredited simply by his height dominates a scene in which he's the sole man at an ante-natal class.
It does however contain a memorable appearance by a then unknown actor called Donald Sutherland, who although uncredited simply by his height dominates a scene in which he's the sole man at an ante-natal class.
