Review of The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn

I'm not going to say it'll be easy, but if you enjoy British comedy at all you must find this film on tape, somewhere. In just under half an hour it packs in as many gleefully absurd laughs as anybody-- Pythons included-- ever got into even a full-length movie. Absolutely the best showcase for the hot-and-cool (in a McLuhanesque sense) team of Spike milligan and Peter Sellers-- Milligan working the corny old gags like a classic vaudevillian, and Sellers off in another dimension of brilliance entirely. (Good example: Sellers' languidly decadent police commissioner, lying on his chaise with cigarette holder in hand and demanding action from his force with all the masculine authority of Oscar Wilde getting a rubdown.)