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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its tiny fictional state and wildly disproportionate international crisis make it an especially close companion: genial political absurdism played with straight-faced diplomatic seriousness.
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Why this pick
A witty, tightly controlled British satire in which one disruptive idea reveals the shared absurdity of bosses, workers and respectable institutions.
03
Why this pick
For the same dry pleasure in official incompetence, this elegant Cold War farce turns a reluctant civilian and a fabricated intelligence operation into sly bureaucratic comedy.
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Why this pick
A nimble black comedy of bungling assassins, pompous public figures and escalating mishaps, carried by the same polished, distinctly British comic understatement.
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Why this pick
This deadpan caper channels postwar frustrations into an impeccably mannered conspiracy, balancing social satire, eccentric characters and carefully escalating farce.
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01 / THE STORY
A title sequence prologue details Britain's accidental acquisition of the island Gaillardia (located on the 33rd parallel south) during the seventeenth century, the feud between two scions of its royal house and Britain's granting the island self-rule in 1916. However, when independence was granted, the Foreign Office (F.O.) failed to recall its governor, who is still there forty years later. He writes a letter to the F.O. informing them of Russian moves to annex the island's mineral wealth.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne
Colonel Bellingham
Resident Advisor Davidson
Sir Arthur Carlton-Browne
Sir John Farthing
Rodgers
Gaillardian commentator
Security Officer
