I remember being in an hotel room sometime in 1979 and switching on the TV and seeing the second half of this film. I was captivated, but I hadn't seen it in 30 years until it turned up recently on a satellite channel in the UK. It's not a laugh-a-minute film, but it is amusing and worth seeing. I imagine the satire of the party leaders, the Labour leader a pipe-smoking Yorkshireman who likes appearing on TV and a Tory who plays the piano, would have been blindingly obvious in 1970 as parodies of Wilson and Heath.
Some of the humour doesn't work, or seems a bit dated nowadays. The Arthur Lowe character is a bit lame and the scene where John Cleese is trying to convince pollster Ronnie Corbett that Nuneaton is predominantly Buddhist looks like it might be a left-over sketch from The Frost Report.
Some of the humour doesn't work, or seems a bit dated nowadays. The Arthur Lowe character is a bit lame and the scene where John Cleese is trying to convince pollster Ronnie Corbett that Nuneaton is predominantly Buddhist looks like it might be a left-over sketch from The Frost Report.