A Fish Called Wanda

BBC1 11.50PM - 1.35AM ★★★★

COMEDY This unexpected international hit is an enthusiastic merging of old-style Ealing caper comedy with some Monty Pythonesque humour. Writer-star John Cleese plays straight man to the comic antics of Jamie Lee Curtis’s calculating vamp Wanda, Michael Palin’s stuttering pet-lover and Kevin Kline’s dim-witted, villainous EX-CIA agent. A deliciously slick and hilarious caper. Dir: Charles Crichton 1988, 15