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Fool Britannia features Peters Sellers, Anthony Newley and Joan Collins, in this satirical piece that has an enjoyable poke at the 'stuffy' British Tory establishment of the time, then reeling from the aftershock of the Profumo affair from which it never recovered. More than likely to have raised quite a few guffaws from the young duffel coat brigade. No 'star rating' for this one as it is primarily a spoken performance, included for its period interest. It reached No. 10 on the NME album chart. Written and directed by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.
"Fair game for satirists, and a bunch of them got together and recorded this fun if heavily dated evening of songs and sketches in front of a live audience." p> "Some of the sketches are pretty good, and Joan Collins does a fine job as the comedy totty."
"One star off because some of the material isn't all that good; another star off because this is very, very much of its time. To scholars of British comedy, its highly interesting. To anyone else, its a potentially amusing period piece."
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