The Statue

A classic 1970s bawdy comedy, starring David Niven, Robert Vaughn and John Cleese. Niven plays Alex Bolt, a British linguist who develops a universal language, called UNISPEAK, to try and achieve world peace and harmony. Overnight he is the most famous man on Earth and he receives a Nobel prize for his achievement. Meanwhile an ambitious US diplomat (Robert Vaughn) tries to capitalise on his celebrity by commissioning a statue to be placed in Trafalgar Square to honour Bolt. Bolt's Italian wife (Virna Lisi), a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude, but because he's neglected her for years developing UNISPEAK she gives the statue a spectacular penis that definitely isn’t his. Believing his wife has cheated, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man with a matching phallus.

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