Year:1974
Duration:00:39:45
Directed by: Robert Young
Actors: John Cleese, Connie Booth, Graham Crowden
Language:English
Country:UK
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Nearly 40 years back, in 1974, during the early post-Monty Python’s Flying Circus period, a charming small one-off special, Romance with a Double Bass ended up being composed by John Cleese, Connie Booth and Bill Owen. Unfortunately, it’s lightweight many years aside from the past Cleese/Booth collaboration of Fawlty Towers opting for a constant diet of real laughter over dialogue. That stated, the truth that it’s based in the short tale of this exact same name by Anton Chekhov, it’s charming, quaint and quintessentially British.
Smychkov (Cleese), a bassist, shows up too early for the betrothal baseball of a gorgeous princess (Booth), and chooses to expend his additional time skinny dipping in the nearby lake. The princess, unbeknownst to the bass player, has gone fishing during the lake. She later on chooses to go skinny dipping as well. Nevertheless, issues alter whenever a thief absconds with both Smychkov’s and the Princess’s clothes, and even though the Princess is wandering around, she fulfills Smychkov. After their particular initially embarrassing encounter, Smychkov helps the princess to protect her dignity by carrying her back to the castle inside the bass instance. All is certainly maybe not for naught, however, as along how they discover they have feelings for each other.
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