这是Richard Lester最好的一个片。 An absurdist classic This is a wonderful surreal comedy based on the play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. You know that it is going to be an odd film right at the beginning, when the opening credits list the cast in order of their height. The film begins with the BBC (Frank Thornton) telling us through the facade of an old television that this is the third, or is it the fourth, anniversary of the shortest war in history, lasting 2 hours and 28 minutes. England is now a barren landscape, littered with derelict cars and buildings, hills of old boots, broken crockery, and other debris. Forty million people perished and there are only 20 known survivors. The Queen did not survive, and of the 20 known survivors the next in line for the throne is a Mrs Ethel Schroake of 393a High Street, Leytonstone. Among the other survivors are Ralph Richardson (O Lucky Man!) as Lord Fortnum of Alamein, who isn't looking forward to his impending mutation into a bed sitting room. Michael Hordern is Bules Martin, who wears a 18-carat Hovis bread ring. Spike Milligan is a postman who wanders around and delivers some memorable dialogue, for example And in come the three bears - the daddy bear said, 'Who's been sleeping in my porridge' - and the mummy bear said, 'that's no porridge, that was my wife' . Arthur Lowe is slowly turning into a parrot (which is then eaten by Spike Milligan), while his wife, the owner of her own death certificate, turns into a wardrobe. His daughter is pregnant with a strange creature, which she has held inside her for seventeen months. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are a pair of policemen who perpetually tell the others to keep moving!. Moore growls a lot and turns into a dog at the end. Marty Feldman is a wellington-boot-wearing nurse. It's a hilarious, absurdist treat, and one of my treasured filmic pleasures.
主演：费·唐纳薇,海伦·斯雷特,彼得·奥图尔,米娅·法罗,布伦达·瓦卡罗,彼得·库克,西蒙·沃德,马克·麦克卢尔,哈特·巴克纳,莫伦·蒂菲,大卫·希里,桑德拉·迪金森,Robyn Mandell,Jenifer Landor,Diana Ricardo,马特·弗里沃,Martha Parsey,Saskia van Basten-Batenburg,凯莉·亨特,Christian J. Fletcher,凯文·斯科特,阿普里尔·奥里奇,Zoot Money,布拉德利·拉威尔,格洛瑞·安恩,德里克·莱昂斯
主演：托马辛·麦肯齐,安雅·泰勒-乔伊,马特·史密斯,黛安娜·里格,丽塔·塔欣厄姆,迈克尔·阿乔,特伦斯·斯坦普,山姆·克拉弗林,科林·梅斯,西诺薇·卡尔森,洁西·梅·李,卡西厄斯·纳尔逊,丽贝卡·哈罗德,艾米·卡塞塔利,宝琳·麦克林,乔什·扎雷,伊丽莎白·贝林顿,詹姆斯·菲尔普斯,奥利弗·菲尔普斯,保罗·布赖特威尔,威尔·罗杰斯,安德鲁·比克内尔,亚当·索普,迈克尔·米尔斯,玛格丽特·诺兰,卢克·霍普,迈克尔·吉普森,莉莎·麦格里利斯,艾尔·罗伯茨,德里克·李,Jacqui-Lee Pryce,Alan Ma
