You Must Be Joking! *** (1965, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfrid Hyde White, James Robertson Justice, Michael Callan, Gabriella Licudi, Denholm Elliott, Lee Montague, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 7769

Director Michael Winner in his happy early Sixties comedy days turns in a pleasantly amusing Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat-style satirical comedy about life in the British army in the era of swinging England.

The good-humoured, traditional 1965 British black and white comedy You Must Be Joking!, based on a story by Michael Winner and screenwriter Alan Hackney, stars Terry-Thomas as Major Foskett, a psychologist who gets a gang of oddball officers to perform an initiative test to find the best soldier.

The best thing about this up-and-down zany farce is the zesty comedy performances from a rich clutch of Sixties stalwarts, including some magic names.

It also stars Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfrid Hyde White, James Robertson Justice, Michael Callan, Gabriella Licudi, Denholm Elliott, Lee Montague and Leslie Phillips.

Also in the cast are Patricia Viterbo, Irene Handl, Richard Wattis, Miles Malleson, Gwendolyn Watts, Clive Dunn, Tracy Reed, James Villiers, Graham Stark, Ronald Howard, Arthur Lowe, Peter Bull, David Jacobs, Norman Vaughan, Lance Percival, Peter Barkworth, Richard Caldicott, Peter Gilmore, Stanley Meadows, Jill Mai Meredith, Marianne Stone, Ed Bishop and Norman Mitchell.

It was shot at various locations, including RAF Northolt, Ruislip, Middlesex.

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