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Cleese at his absolute finest
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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the funniest 40-minute-long film I have seen
This film has me helpless with laughter every time I watch it. It is supremely funny and perfectly executed. John Cleese demonstrates again that he is probably the best actor around at performing farce; Connie Booth is at her most charming; the rest of the rest is pleasingly filled with fine character actors (including Andrew Sachs, making this a sort of FAWLTY TOWERS reunion). An aside: Those who have heard about the film's abundant nudity might presume it to be something akin to those raunchy, lowbrow British productions that Cinemax used to dredge up on Friday nights. Actually, the tone of the film is surprisingly innocent. The effect of their nakedness is to equalize the princess and the poor musician, not to excite them.

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Funny, naughty, and like an extended "Python" sketch.
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.