One of my very favorite movies and I highly recommend it.

Peter adopts Ringo because he is the only person that Peter can't buy. No matter what Peter offers, Ringo refuses to be bought. So Peter adopts him. The scene filmed way above their heads, while Peter follows Ringo all around trying to buy him is fantastic.

It was actually Laurence Harvey who stripped to Hamlet. He was wonderful. Yul Brenner as a transvestite is pretty funny too.

Here is a list of the whole cast.

Cast List

Peter Sellers ...Sir Guy Grand KG, KC, CBE Ringo Starr ...Youngman Grand ESQ. Isabel Jeans ...Dame Agnes Grand Caroline Blakiston ...Hon. Esther Grand Wilfrid Hyde-White ...Captain Reginald K. Klaus Richard Attenborough ...Oxford Coach Leonard Frey ...Laurence Faggot Laurence Harvey ...Hamlet Christopher Lee ...Ship's vampire Spike Milligan ...Traffic Warden 27 Roman Polanski ...Solitary Drinker Raquel Welch ...Priestess of the Whip Tom Boyle ...My Man Jeff Victor Maddern ...Hot dog vendor Terence Alexander ...Mad Major Peter Bayliss ...Pompous Toff Joan Benham ...Socialite in Sotheby's Patrick Cargill ...Auctioneer at Sotheby's John Cleese ...Mr. Dougdale, Director in Southeby's Clive Dunn ...Sommelier Fred Emney ...Fitzgibbon Kenneth Fortescue ...Snob in Sotheby's Patrick Holt ...Duke in Sotheby's David Hutcheson ...Lord Barry Hattie Jacques ...Ginger Horton Jeremy Lloyd ...Lord Hampton David Lodge ...Ship's Guide Ferdy Mayne ...Edouard of Chez Edouard Restaurant Dennis Price ...Winthrop Robert Raglan ...Maltravers Graham Stark ...Waiter at Chez Edouard Restaurant Peter Graves ...Lord at ship's bar Michael Aspel ...TV Commentator John Le Mesurier ...Sir John Michael Barratt ...TV Commentator Sean Barry-Weske ...John Lennon lookalike Guy Middleton ...Duke of Mantisbriar Peter Myers ...Lord Kilgallon John Snagge ...TV Commentator Leon Thau ...Engine Room Toff Frank Thornton ...Police Inspector Michael Trubshawe ...Sir Lionel Edward Underdown ...Prince Henry Alan Whicker ...TV Commentator Yul Brynner ...Transvestite cabaret singer Harry Carpenter ...TV Commentator Graham Chapman ...Oxford Crew Roland Culver ...Sir Herbert W. Barrington Dalby ...TV Commentator Freddie Earlle ...Sol Kimberley Chung ...Yoko Ono lookalike

I've never read the book and perhaps it is much better, but it wouldn't have Harvey stripping and that is funny and proves the message of the movie. Anyone can be bought.

Love it! Annamill