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Jul 29, 1988 · A Fish Called Wanda: Directed by Charles Crichton, John Cleese. With John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin. In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Charles Crichton, John Cleese
- 1988-07-29
A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 slapstick farce heist black comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and written by Crichton and John Cleese. It stars Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin. The film follows a gang of diamond thieves who double-cross one another to recover stolen diamonds hidden by their jailed leader.
- IT WAS DIRECTOR CHARLES CRICHTON’S FIRST FILM IN TWO DECADES. Back in the 1950s, Charles Crichton was a famous director of Ealing Comedies—a series of comedy films produced by London’s Ealing Studios—who was known for his work on films like The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), Hue and Cry (1947), and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951).
- CRICHTON AND JOHN CLEESE SPENT FIVE YEARS WRITING THE FILM. A Fish Called Wanda was years, even decades, in the making. Cleese and Crichton first met and began discussing ideas for a comedy heist film, inspired by The Lavender Hill Mob, all the way back in 1969.
- IT WAS INSPIRED BY THE EALING COMEDIES. Unsurprisingly, A Fish Called Wanda was heavily indebted to the Ealing Comedies, especially Crichton’s own The Lavender Hill Mob, a heist comedy which starred Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway as a pair of bumbling bank robbers.
- THE ACTORS HELPED SHAPE THEIR CHARACTERS. Cleese encouraged Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, and Jamie Lee Curtis to contribute ideas and help develop their characters.
Jul 12, 2018 · A Fish Called Wanda. John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin on crafting a comedy classic sharp enough to make a man laugh himself to death. By Darryn King. July...
British gangster George Thomason (Tom Georgeson) and his hapless aide, Ken Pile (Michael Palin), draft a pair of arrogant Americans, grifter Wanda Gerschwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis) and weapons...
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- Charles Crichton, John Cleese
- R
- Comedy
A Fish Called Wanda (1988) - Jamie Lee Curtis as Wanda - IMDb. Jamie Lee Curtis: Wanda. Showing all 58 items. Jump to: Photos (31) Quotes (27) Photos. 8 more photos. Quotes. Wanda : [after Otto breaks in on Wanda and Archie in Archie's flat and hangs him out the window] I was dealing with something delicate, Otto.
