In the late Forties, Danny Kaye's popularity was such that it was a major feat to get tickets for one of his stage appearances at the London Palladium. By 1963, his best films and his peak of fame were certainly behind him, but this funny film didn't get its just deserts at the time. It was directed by comedy specialist Frank Tashlin, who earlier had written for Bob Hope and, especially, Jerry Lewis. It's unusual to find a Kaye comedy in black-and-white (20 years earlier his films were already in colour). But the great man will soon get you laughing with impersonations of a dotty masseuse, or an unwittingly-brilliant gymnast, out-manoeuvring a gang of crooks led by a bewigged Telly Savalas. And the final half-hour includes a wild and wacky chase on the freeway.

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