Main Cast: Loretta Swit, Peter Cook, Rik Mayall, Ian Richardson
Release Year: 1986
Country: UK
Run Time: 93 minutes
Plot
Tipping the scales on the Monty Python-esque side of broad comedy, this outrageous and classically British farce is a series of episodes involving the U.S., a small Caribbean nation, the British government, and the military. The American president is a former clown who dies after asking someone to punch him in the stomach to prove how strong he is. The vice-president (Loretta Swit) takes over and heads for trouble right away. A British island has been invaded by a Caribbean dictatorship and the gay British admiral sent to command naval operations takes a warm-hearted, 1940s-style leave of his "spouse." A Princess working as a nurse overdoes it when asked to shave a sailor for an operation. The British Prime Minister decides that if the unemployment situation could be easily solves if the employed would only jump off a cliff. And so it goes on and on, with some of the skits delving into more violent and sacrilegious themes. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Herbert Lom - General Mosquera; Alexei Sayle - Alexi Sayle; Shane Rimmer - Marvin Gelber (Secretary of State); Richard Murdoch - Cabinet Minister; John Barron; Daniel Benzali - William Kubert (Secretary of Defense); Richard Griffiths; Murray Hamilton - Jack Preston (ex-President); Leon Lissek - Politburo member; Ian McNeice - Thrush (Journalist); Bruce Montague; Joanne Pearce - Princess Wendy; Richard Pearson - Michael Sumpter (Defence Secretary); Michael Richards - Lacrobat; Marc Smith - Dan Hickey (TV Anchorman); Peter Jones; Barry Morse; Harold Bergman - Desk Clerk; Czeslaw Grocholski - President Trezhnikov; Richard Wilson - Nigel Lipman (Foreign Secretary)
Credit
Tom Bussmann - Director, Peter Boyle - Editor, Patrick Gowers - Composer (Music Score), David Renwick - Screenwriter
