In this film, a complete idiot inadvertently helps a group of crooks steal the formula of a professor. The Professor is a man wearing what appears to be a Halloween costume and goofy wig.
This is a film starring the British comedy group, the Goons. I know that they were terribly popular in the UK in the 1950s, though here in the States we never get a chance to see them. This film is the first Goon performance I have seen and I was excited to see it mostly to see Peter Sellers in one of his earliest roles. Sadly, however, after this long wait, I found the results to be mostly bad. While it perhaps played well in the UK back in the old days, now it just seemed incredibly amateurish—with incredibly broad and unfunny humor throughout. While Sellers wasn't bad and it was a good opportunity for him to work on character acting (as his officer seemed quite a bit like the one he played in DR. STRANGELOVE), the rest were just terrible. In many ways, the film seemed like an old fashioned low-brow stage show with such "jokes" as the following: The boss tells his employee "Serve these two ladies and drop everything else"—at which point the employee drops a stack of boxes and waits on the customers. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to get any better than that! Painfully unfunny—don't waste your time on this one unless you are a masochist or unless this is seen for nostalgia's sake.
This is a film starring the British comedy group, the Goons. I know that they were terribly popular in the UK in the 1950s, though here in the States we never get a chance to see them. This film is the first Goon performance I have seen and I was excited to see it mostly to see Peter Sellers in one of his earliest roles. Sadly, however, after this long wait, I found the results to be mostly bad. While it perhaps played well in the UK back in the old days, now it just seemed incredibly amateurish—with incredibly broad and unfunny humor throughout. While Sellers wasn't bad and it was a good opportunity for him to work on character acting (as his officer seemed quite a bit like the one he played in DR. STRANGELOVE), the rest were just terrible. In many ways, the film seemed like an old fashioned low-brow stage show with such "jokes" as the following: The boss tells his employee "Serve these two ladies and drop everything else"—at which point the employee drops a stack of boxes and waits on the customers. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to get any better than that! Painfully unfunny—don't waste your time on this one unless you are a masochist or unless this is seen for nostalgia's sake.