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The Goon Show broadcast a parody episode entitled I Was Monty's Treble on 10 November 1958 (9th series, show 2). In 1959, Cecil Parker and Leslie Phillips appeared in a spoof version, The Night We Dropped a Clanger (known as Make Mine a Double in the U.S.), alongside Brian Rix.
The Germans are suspicious that Monty was seen in three different locations with three different women. They set out to get the plans of an original Field Marshal Montgomery. German agents Moriarty and Grytpype succeed in destroying the statue of Montgomery’s future movements, but in fact it is only a statue of John Mills and Richard ...
I Was Monty's Treble is an episode from The Goon Show. It is the second show in the nineth series. Pre-recording: Wednesday 5 November 1958, 4.15pm, Aeolian Hall Studio 2 (DLO 68889) and again on Sunday 9 November 1958, 5pm, The Camden Theatre (DLO 68950/A).
Apr 29, 2013 · Part 1 of a 30 minute animation of the Goon Show "I was Monty's Treble" first broadcast on the BBC in 1954.
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(released in the US as The Counterfeit General Montgomery) is a book by M. E. Clifton James, first published in London in 1954. It was made into a film in 1958, directed by John Guillermin, from a screenplay adapted by Bryan Forbes. It tells the story of Operation Copperhead: James had an uncanny resemblance to General Montgomery in real life, and ...
The film broadly follows the account by James in his book of the same name, but according to James, there was no attempt to kidnap him. The German High Command did plan to have him killed, but Hitler vetoed the plan until he could be sure where the landings would actually take place.
Gibraltar was in reality a hotbed of German agents, and James/Montgomery was spied on by several operatives who were smuggled into Gibraltar specifically to discover what "Monty" was up to. James/Montgomery deliberately talked nonsense about non-existent operations and plans, in the hope that the spies would overhear and take such information seriously.
•The Goon Show broadcast a parody episode entitled I Was Monty's Treble on 10 November 1958 (9th series, show 2).
•In 1959, Cecil Parker and Leslie Phillips appeared in a spoof version, The Night We Dropped a Clanger (known as Make Mine a Double in the U.S.), alongside Brian Rix.
•The 1961 film On the Double, starring Danny Kaye, was also a take-off of I Was Monty's Double, in which Kaye plays the twin roles of the General and the private who (comically but successfully) impersonates him.
•The 1989 Jason Connery film Casablanca Express freely borrows from the original tale, but with Churchill as the kidnap target. Glenn Ford appears briefly as a character resembling Gen. Williams.
•British satirical magazine Private Eye carried a spoof version of the War Picture Library graphic novels entitled "Battle for Britain", a satire on then-current British political issues, most notably the miners' strike. The author was credited as "Monty Stubble", a pun on Monty's Double.
Since 2010, the name 'Monty's Double' has been adopted by the actor Colin Brooks-Williams as the identity for his popular Field-Marshal Montgomery lookalike and impersonation act, with which he tours 1940s-themed events nationwide ; as a tribute to the Field-Marshal himself and to M.E.Clifton James (the original war-time 'Monty's Double'). Colin has registered the name 'Monty's Double' as his professional stage name with the actor's union 'Equity' and carries the name on his Equity membership card.
Feb 5, 2022 · A little-known Goons performance in a special programme to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the British Forces Broadcasting Service. The Goons contributed a...
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SEAGOON: Then we create a Monty's treble. BLOODNOK: And what if the treble is struck down by a plague of German knee zeppelins? SEAGOON: Gentlemen, to solve the problem we must ask the Statistician Royal exactly how many Monty's doubles we need, so over to them.
