starring Peter Sellers and Peter Sellers with Lynne Frederick and Lionel Jeffries
The stage is set for a heady stew of high adventure, intrigue and comedy when Ruritania's Mad King dies in a ballooning accident. Prince Rudolph, the foppish heir-apparent, is summoned home from the gaming tables of London but Rudolph's scheming half-brother quickly dispatches an assassin to dispose of him first. In the nick of time, the Prince's life is saved by a Cockney cabbie who just happens to be his double ...
Screenplay by DICK CLEMENT, IAN LA FRENAIS Based on the novel by ANTHONY HOPE Produced by WALTER MIRISCH Directed by RICHARD QUINE
(First showing on British television) Films; page 12