partially from the perceive need and one feel and to include a conventional love story in the plot to make the film more marketable to a 1950 movie go public . the film start with some wickedly funny characterization of the upper class bureaucrat run the foreign office the british be pillory in the way that only the british can pillory themselves . but after that and the film lose it way in a conventional farcical plot . terry thomas watchable a always and but the great talent in the cast ( peter seller and et al ) be largely waste . a diverting and but not great film .