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Jun 19, 2021 · 1.19K subscribers. 555. It’s cable reimagined. Romance with a Double Bass is a 1974 British short comedy film directed by Robert Young. It was adapted by Young, John Cleese and Connie...
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Romance with a Double Bass is a 1974 British short comedy film directed by Robert Young and starring John Cleese and Connie Booth. It was adapted by Young, Cleese and Booth (uncredited) from a screenplay by Bill Owen based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov.
Romance with a Double Bass: Directed by Robert Young. With Connie Booth, John Cleese, Graham Crowden, Desmond Jones. A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river.
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- Short, Comedy, Romance
- Robert Young
- 1975-08
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Sep 20, 2013 · Nearly 40 years ago, in 1974, in the early post-Monty Python's Flying Circus era, a charming little one-off special, Romance with a Double Bass was written by John Cleese, Connie Booth and Bill Owen. Unfortunately, it is light years apart from the previous Cleese/Booth collaboration of Fawlty Towers opting for a steady diet of physical.
She also appeared in How to Irritate People (1968), a pre-Monty Python film starring Cleese and other future Monty Python members; a short film titled Romance with a Double Bass (1974) which Cleese adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov; and The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977), Cleese's Sherlock Holmes spoof ...
Feb 28, 2006 · If you ever wanted to see John Cleese skinny dipping in a top hat or see Connie Booth running hither and yon in nothing but a tiara, this is a must see. Based on the Anton Chekhov short story, Cleese plays Smychkov, a double bass player commissioned to play at a ball for Princess Constanza (Booth.)
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Cleese is a double bass player with a gig at a princesses wedding, and well, love happens. The romantic interest is Connie Booth, then Cleese's wife, and their pairing is an inspired...