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Title: Fawlty Towers Post by: Firefly on June 01, 2010, 11:31:26 am BBC: John Cleese in the Original "Fawlty Towers" (DVD -- 3 Discs, 500 Minutes) Starrinng John Cleese BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt) 324 out of 367 people give "Fawlty Towers" a 5-star review on Amazon.com. The rest give it 4 stars! An admiring on-line reviewer writes: "Fawlty Towers", for those who have somehow not been exposed to it, is simply the most glorious example of the farce ever to be committed to television. "Monty Python"'s John Cleese is Basil Fawlty, a snobbish, rude owner of a small hotel in Torquay. On staff are his wife Sybil (Prunella Scales) - a gregarious woman with the most amazing laugh in television history, receptionist Polly (Cleese's wife Connie Booth) - probably the only staff member with an ounce of common sense, and Manuel (the incomparable Andrew Sachs) - a Spanish waiter with severely limited English. Of the guests, Ballard Berkely delivers a wonderful performance as the not-quite-there Major. Each episode deals with Basil's various problems at the hotel, problems which he never fails to make much worse by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, leaving Manuel in charge or generally being himself. The laughs ramp up to fever pitch very rapidly and each episode ends with rapturous cheers from the studio audience. There were only ever 12 episodes recorded of this classic series, but each one has incredible quality. As Cleese explains in part of his interview, attempting to equal the highlights of each series just got too much for the writers and performers. Read The Full Review >>> http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/1398 Learn More >>> http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1398 |