A Fish Called Wanda

Packed with both great visual and verbal style and the most tasteless (yet effective) humor, 'A Fish Called Wanda' is a transatlantic riot not to be missed.

Wanda (Curtis) is an ambitious American confidence trickster in Britain, who uses every feminine wile to get in on a jewel heist led by her gangster lover George Thomason (Georgeson).

Wanda romances George's henchman, Otto (Kline), and the pair plot against George and George's flunky, the stuttering animal-lover Ken (Palin) to swipe the loot for themselves, and rat George out to the cops. What the duo did not bargain for was George moving the diamonds to another secret place just before getting 'nicked'. The pair need to find out where those rocks are stashed...and fast!

Wanda, the obvious brains of the outfit, thinks the best way to find out is by getting close to George's lawyer. Enter the uptight, conventional, tight-laced married Barrister Archie Leach (Cleese).

A monumental reader of character, Wanda knows just how to get what she wants out of Leach. Flattery will get her everywhere, almost. Wanda repeatedly seduces Archie (who is bored with his marriage and amazed that someone like Wanda would be interested), trying to get the information.

Yet, she falls into her own trap by falling in love with the very man (or, one of them) she is conning. Archie cannot divulge anything about the case, as Wanda is a material witness. Meanwhile, poor bumbling Ken is ordered to kill the old lady who witnesses the robbers' escape, and manages to eliminate the woman's small dogs (accidentally, of course) before laying so much as a bruise on her!

Otto is fuming over Wanda's physical involvement with Archie; creating a love/lust/greed triangle of the most hilarious variety. To help ease his stress, Otto relentlessly torments Ken, from pretending he's gay and hitting on him, to finally, eating Ken's fish!!

Love triumphs, as Archie realizes he wants more out of life, namely, Wanda. The pair escape with the loot to South America, but not before leaving George in the lurch, and throttling Otto, who is then left to vengeful Ken's devices.