Monte Carlo or Bust

Peter Cook - Major Digby Dawlish
Tony Curtis - Chester Schofield
Gert Fröbe - Schickel
Susan Hampshire - Betty
Jack Hawkins - Count Levinovitch
Dudley Moore - Lt. Kit Barrington
Eric Sykes - Perkins
Terry-Thomas - Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage
Derren Nesbitt - Waleska

After the success of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, director Ken Annakin and many of the cast of Magnificent... reunited for this similarly themed film. This time, the object is Monte Carlo, with the cars driven by the dastardly Terry-Thomas and Eric Sykes, the dashing Tony Curtis accompanied by the lovely Susan Hampshire, the inventive Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and ex-jailbirds Gert Frobe and Peer Schmidt. There are thrills, spills and laughs along the way in this overblown farce; with the eventual winner never in any doubt. Annakin's direction finds most fun in the sequences where the cars Terry-Thomas has sabotaged start coming apart, and Cook and Moore as a pair of inventive British racers.

Set in the 1920s, with ownership of a car factory at stake, scheming businessman Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage (Terry-Thomas) tries to beat a young American gambler Chester Schofield (Tony Curtis) in the 1,500 Monte Carlo rally. Among the other competitors are upper class army inventors Major Digby Dawlish (Peter Cook) and Lieutenant Kit Barrington (Dudley Moore), a clownish pair of Italian traffic policemen (Buzzanca and Chiari), a trio of sexy ladies from France, and evil jewel smuggling German (Gert Fröbe).