for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue since its inception in 1972. Reception Monte Carlo or Bust! was favourably received by audiences and critics alike. The comparison to Annakin's earlier work, notwithstanding, The New York Times review noted, "... the picture is lively and often hilarious, as the drivers hang on for dear life and the old cars honk, collide and careen. There is hardly a turn without a bang-up or a mix-up." In the opinion of the writer Matthew Sweet, Peter Cook as Major Dawlish, and Dudley Moore as Lt. Barrington, are the performers who have the humour in the film that survives best. Peter Cook's Major Dawlish is the creator of a series of fairly ludicrous inventions – the feeling hovers "that it might be all over for Britain." Sweet states that it is a send-up of the British Empire, "which is very 1960s and not far from the sort of thing they would have been doing in The Establishment Club in Soho a few years earlier, where really for the first time, these upper-class stereotypes had been sent up with a vein of cruelty as well as a vein of affection. I think you can see it as a kind of post-Empire film." Cook and Moore play the representatives of Empire: Major Dawlish (Cook): I think it's pretty clear whose side the Lord is on, Barrington. Barrington (Moore): England, sir? Major Dawlish (Cook): Naturally. More recent reviews have not been as complimentary, with Leonard Maltin characterising it as mid-fare, a movie that has "some funny scenes, but backfires a bit too often." References Notes Bibliography Annakin, Ken. So You Wanna Be a Director? Sheffield, UK: Tomahawk Press, 2001. . Curtis, Tony and Peter Golenbock. Tony Curtis: American Prince, My Autobiography. New York: Harmony Books, 2008. . Davies, Jack, Ken Annakin, Allen Andrews and Ronald Searle. Monte Carlo or Bust!: Those Daring Young Men in their Jaunty Jalopies. London: Dennis Dobson, 1969. . Hildick, E. W. Monte Carlo or Bust! London: Sphere, 1969. . Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2009. New York: New American Library, 2009 (originally published as TV Movies, then Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide), First edition 1969, published annually since 1988. . External links Entry at imcdb.org 1969 films Films set in Monaco Paramount Pictures films Films directed by Ken Annakin American sequel films British sequel films French sequel films Italian sequel films