The Magnificent Two Details

Like most British comedians of the 1960s and 1970s, Morecambe and Wise failed to make it in movies because the situations that made their television series so successful simply could not be sustained beyond an hour or the confines of a studio setting. In this third and final feature venture, Eric and Ernie do their utmost to kick-start a poor comedy of errors about travelling salesmen caught up in a South American revolution. But the plot is paper thin, the jokes aren't funny and the use of a bikini-clad army to install Margit Saad as president is unworthy of the lovable duo.

More or less a Bob Hope vehicle, adapted for the less realistic Morecambe and Wise with unhappy results: too few sight gags and a curious emphasis on violence. The third and last of their attempts to find film vehicles.