Is this the one with Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers? I saw this on TV uncut thru some Canadian station that was, for a while, able to be picked up in the Detroit area. I remember that 2 guys from Monte Python were writers for it.
That's the one. Very dated, but also very funny. When they did the "reveal" on who the sexy lounge singer was I damn near fell off my seat. "OH NO!" said the man "Oh yes!" said the torch singer.
It's from an equally funny and equally dated Terry Southern novel. Southern wrote the main screenplay, with "additional material" by Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Peter Sellers. It's got a huge cast, mostly made up of cameos. A select few (names that I recognize):
Peter Sellers .... Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE
Ringo Starr .... Youngman Grand, Esq.
Wilfrid Hyde-White .... Capt. Reginald K. Klaus
Richard Attenborough .... Oxford coach
Laurence Harvey .... Hamlet
Christopher Lee .... Ship's vampire
Spike Milligan .... Traffic warden #27
Roman Polanski .... Solitary drinker
Raquel Welch .... Priestess of the Whip
John Cleese .... Mr. Dougdale (director in Sotheby's)
Kenneth Fortescue .... Snob in Sotheby's
Graham Stark .... Waiter at Chez Edouard Restaurant
Freddie Earlle .... Sol
Peter Graves .... Lord at ship's bar
Yul Brynner .... Transvestite cabaret singer (uncredited)
Graham Chapman .... Oxford crew (uncredited)
John Lennon .... Himself (uncredited)