"Robert Newton’s Long John Silver is possibly the greatest ham performance of all time, and has influenced virtually every other pirate characterisation since."
"Edith Evans's definitive Lady Bracknell is only part of the immaculate cast that makes this one of the greatest classics of all time. The Rupert Everett remake is unspeakably dreary in comparison."
"Jack Lemmon is wonderful in dual ham rôles: as the villainous professor who gets shanghai’d into impersonating an air-head prince, and as the prince himself."
"Just about all the greatest British comedy stars that were alive at the time, but particularly outstanding performances include Terry-Thomas as the upper-class English cad."
"Although Peter Sellers's performance is of course the mainspring of this series, I should like to put in a word for Herbert Lom's so-beautifully-judged Inspector Dreyfus."