Peter Cook & Dudley Moore: Monte Carlo or Bust 1/3

Scenes with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore from this 1969 film, as well as part of the opening titles.

'Monte Carlo or Bust' (also known as 'Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies') was a sequel to 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines' (1965).

The film, like many of the time, has an ensemble cast, with most characters (except the leads) appearing only every ten minutes or so. Sometimes everybody is in the same place at the same time, with allegedly riotous consequences.

Cook (Major Digby Dawlish) and Moore (Lt. Kit Barrington) are a couple of pukka army types, and for the first part of the film their main adversary is Willi Schickel (Gert Fröbe), who is German, so the usual jokes apply (the ones about Jerry, sauerkraut, etc.).

By the way, the reason the German runs off is not for fear of a damned good thrashing as Dawlish presumes, but because he has escaped from prison and is wanted by the authorities.

You can hear Sousa's 'Liberty Bell' playing in the background; this film was released about six months before the debut of the first Monty Python series.

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[pianolasociety]

>"You can hear Sousa's 'Liberty Bell' playing in the background" ......no, the Liberty Bell is nowhere to be heard in these scenes - the score theme and incidental is entirely by Goodwin

[frogandpeach1]

I stand corrected.

[Versigo]

I wish I could find the whole movie... it's so difficult to find

[frogandpeach1]

Looks like it's available from Amazon in the U.S.

[beechway]

One of my favourite films - Cook was excellent in this  - why don't they make films as simple as this anymore. Just bought It's a Mad mad mad world video - another excellent innocent comedy from the early 60's.

[pintotoons]

i saw this movie if you compare wacky races with it

Dawlish is a british professor pat pending racing a jalopy with gadgets instead of a convertacar its to bad that his car end up in pieces

[cessnaace]

@frogandpeach1 "Those Daring You Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies" (known as "Monte Carlo or Bust" in Europe) was released in the longer European cut in widescreen in the LaserDisc format and the DVD format.

STAY AWESOME! :)

[elbc2012]

I think yo ucan find it in amazing,

[highlandcommando]

he could see it my eyes l was going to give him a damn good thrashing

[TheTmny876able]

In the scene where the 3 french women crash into the french mans car, if you look behind there are 4 parosols, 3 seconds later there are only 2!, and there are two women at left up where the parosols are behind a hedge,(one wear a pink coat and and hat with black stripes, and another wearing a brown coat) yet when the camera goes to the right they are both standing behind the hedge at right seconds later!.

[MrFibes]

The germans car rock. hehe