{"id":15644,"date":"2014-08-25T01:31:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T00:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15644"},"modified":"2014-08-25T01:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T00:31:55","slug":"the-case-of-the-mukkinese-battle-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/08\/25\/the-case-of-the-mukkinese-battle-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L7RHYyJenDM\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mukkinese1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mukkinese1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I probably should have posted this when the Monty Python reunion shows were in progress since the first time I saw it was as the support film for a screening of <em>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em> in 1974.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L7RHYyJenDM\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn<\/em><\/a> (1956) is one of the few film outings for The Goons, the radio-comedy troupe who famously influenced the Pythons and The Beatles. Joseph Sterling was the director. The 27-minute film features a diminished Goons cast: regulars Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, with Dick Emery replacing Harry Secombe; all three have multiple roles, as they did in the Goons, and Emery did later in his TV shows. It&#8217;s a cheap production but packed with silly sight gags, some of which draw attention to the film medium: no wonder the Pythons liked it. Most surprising of all is seeing Michael Deeley listed as producer; Deeley started out producing lowly fare such as this but went on to produce some very notable British films including <em>The Man Who Fell to Earth<\/em> and <em>Blade Runner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L7RHYyJenDM\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mukkinese2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/mukkinese2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/07\/06\/the-running-jumping-standing-still-film\/\">The Running Jumping &amp; Standing Still Film<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I probably should have posted this when the Monty Python reunion shows were in progress since the first time I saw it was as the support film for a screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in 1974. The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn (1956) is one of the few film outings for The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/08\/25\/the-case-of-the-mukkinese-battle-horn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[6394,6395,6393,6396,684,1946,4953,4952,178,6392,4317],"class_list":["post-15644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-dick-emery","tag-harry-secombe","tag-joseph-sterling","tag-michael-deeley","tag-monty-python","tag-monty-pythons-flying-circus","tag-peter-sellers","tag-spike-milligan","tag-the-beatles","tag-the-goons","tag-the-man-who-fell-to-earth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-44k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}