A well-dressed but heavy-handed spoof of A Passage to India, Chariots of Fire and almost everything Merchant-Ivory ever made. Despite the efforts of a game cast, the emphasis on phallic and physical humour becomes tiresome quite quickly, in spite of some felicities in the performances of Samuel West and Robert Portal as two improbably upper-class twits at large in 1908 England, Italy and India. Lovely to look at, but you'll find this rather less delightful to know unless your sense of humour is as broad as guest star Peter Ustinov's beam.

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