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Alex Bolt (David Niven) is a British linguist who develops a universal language, called UNISPEAK, to try and achieve world peace and harmony. Overnight he is the most famous man on Earth and he receives a Nobel prize for his achievement. Meanwhile an ambitious US diplomat (Robert Vaughn) is trying to capitalise on his celebrity by commissioning a statue to be placed in Trafalgar Square to honour Bolt. ¬ Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude, but because he's neglected her for years developing UNISPEAK she gives the statue a spectacular penis that definitely isn t his... Believing his wife has cheated, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man with a matching phallus. Can art and love reconcile? SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Mono Soundtrack, Widescreen 1.77:1 Transfer Enhanced for 16:9 TV's, 'Conversations with David Niven' Archive Documentary, Trailers, Booklet Notes by Simon Sheridan
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I have spent about 15 years trying to find this film which I saw one night tucked away on Beeb 2. It is very dated and of its time but it is a veritable whos who of British Comedy stars of its day.
The humour redates all the so called lads films like American Pie but it is just as risque and does so in a uniquiely British way by the comedic genius that was David Niven.
Watch it and allow for it's quanitness and I guarantee if you like British Comedies of the late 60s you will love it.
BTW Listen out for the theme tune as I guarantee you wont get it out of your head.
The humour redates all the so called lads films like American Pie but it is just as risque and does so in a uniquiely British way by the comedic genius that was David Niven.
Watch it and allow for it's quanitness and I guarantee if you like British Comedies of the late 60s you will love it.
BTW Listen out for the theme tune as I guarantee you wont get it out of your head.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The husband is Alex Bolt (David Niven), a Nobel winning British linguist, who developed a universal language. The wife is Rhonda (Virna Lisi) commissioned to make a statue of Alex. The statue is 18 feet tall and depicts Alex in this birthday suite. Alex is a tad embarrassed but soon it is pointed out that a certain appendage is not his. So now he is wondering who his wife used as the model and maybe what she had been up to? Will he discover the mystery and is it possible for an uh...er art lover to be offered the appendage?
The movie is lots of fun to follow the trail of the sleuth. It is fairly low key. Yet it is one of David Niven's best.
See David Niven again trying to figure out who did it in "The Imposible Years".
The movie is lots of fun to follow the trail of the sleuth. It is fairly low key. Yet it is one of David Niven's best.
See David Niven again trying to figure out who did it in "The Imposible Years".
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
You must study the classics to enjoy this movie
8 Feb 2011
Format:DVD
The husband is Alex Bolt (David Niven), a Nobel winning British linguist, who developed a universal language. The wife is Rhonda (Virna Lisi) commissioned to make a statue of Alex. The statue is 18 feet tall and depicts Alex in this birthday suite. Alex is a tad embarrassed but soon it is pointed out that a certain appendage is not his. So now he is wondering who his wife used as the model and maybe what she had been up to? Will he discover the mystery and is it possible for an uh...er art lover to be offered the appendage?
The movie is lots of fun to follow the trail of the sleuth. It is fairly low key. Yet it is one of David Niven's best.
See David Niven again trying to figure out who did it.
The Impossible Years [VHS]
The movie is lots of fun to follow the trail of the sleuth. It is fairly low key. Yet it is one of David Niven's best.
See David Niven again trying to figure out who did it.
The Impossible Years [VHS]
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
You'll want like hell to LOVE this film -- but won't!
28 Oct 2011
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'll admit it was quite amusing to watch heterosexual Alex Bolt (David Niven) running around helter-skelter in a men's steam room, peeking under towels, in a frantic search to discover the alleged male model he believed his (unfaithful?) wife had employed to sculpt a giant, honorary statue of him -- a statue, as it turned out, that was far "too generously" equipped with the kind of "plunger" few men on God's earth could boast having.
Fantastic, screwball idea sinks pitifully under the weight of its own stodgy direction and lame script.
Three overly generous stars for effort and (unrealized) potential.
Fantastic, screwball idea sinks pitifully under the weight of its own stodgy direction and lame script.
Three overly generous stars for effort and (unrealized) potential.
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