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Car Trouble (1986)
Jaguar e-types and Brit Humour - Spoilers
First of all, this is not Monty Python and Brit humor (humour) is an acquired taste for us Yanks.
This is the story of a wimpy know-it all air traffic controller who falls in love with an S1 Jaguar e-type FHC and trades his wife's knackered Citroen 2CV for it.
He then proceeds to get so possesive of his new toy that he won't even let wifey touch it.
Needless to say, wifey has to take it for a spin. Along the way, she meets the salesman who sold it to her hubby and they get involved in some amourous positions in the two-seater and end up having to have the police and fire department extract them.
Hubby goes berserk and tries to kill her in several outrageous scenes but love triumphs and everyone lives happily ever after, except for the e-type....
Julie Waters is a classic Brit actress and adds class to this film but the car is really the central character. You just have to own one to understand.
Worth a watch even if only for the English humor and double entendres.
Where Does It Hurt? (1972)
Classic Sellers Humor
This movie was originally released in 1972 as "The Operator". I saw it at the Apache Drive-In in Tucson AZ in 1978 as "Where Does It Hurt?". I was working in a hospital at the time and found the jokes outrageously funny and appropriate.
A well tanned JoAnn Phlug, (Lt. Dish from M*A*S*H the movie) is one of the main characters and plays well off of Sellers. Pat Morita as a young lab technician is a treat as well.
The gags are non-stop and the Pepsi machine as a door into Sellers office is a stroke of genius.
The title song was written by Keith Allison, who also starred as a minor character. Sort of like the Louden Wainwright character in M*A*S*H, the TV series.
This movie was risque by some standards then but would play uncut on any channel now. There is very little swearing in it but it alludes to some sexual situations.
Sadly, it has never been released on tape or DVD although it was shown by some pay services 15 years or so ago. I happened to tape it off of the defunct Stardust Theater and watch it occasionally, it's just as funny today as it was in 1978.
Too bad they don't release it on DVD as it's a classic example of '70 humor and Sellers dead-pan wisecracks are just as good now as when he was alive.