That raw-boned actor David Warner made his first big impact in this with-it comedy about a young man with a passion for Trotsky, Marx (Karl, not the Brothers) and all furry animals. In his fantasies, he likens the people he knows to various four-footed beasts. Not surprisingly, perhaps, he sees himself as an ape-man - the cue for some nostalgic footage of Tarzan (Weissmuller version) and the incomparable King Kong. These Tarzan/ape-man sequences, which include Morgan invading his ex-wife's remarriage reception dressed as a gorilla, are the best in the film. `I've gone all furry,' says Morgan, with a simple, but satisfied smile on his face at one stage; and, at another, with a certain amount of relish: `I shall be hunted down from Wapping to Wimbledon.' He's also the proud possessor of a stuffed gorilla, which gives rise to the film's biggest laugh when he tries to save it from a fire. `My God,' gasps his father-in-law, as Morgan staggers out of the smoke with an indistinct figure slung over his shoulder, `he's got my wife.' A trio of believable eccentrics in the supporting cast comprises Irene Handl as Morgan's Stalinist Mum, Bernard Bresslaw as a harassed, hopscotch-happy policeman and Arthur Mullard as a wrestler called Danny the Gorilla. No wonder Morgan has an affinity with him.

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