Leonard Rossiter

King John's young nephew, Arthur, has a claim to the English throne, which is supported by the French monarch. When King John rejects this claim, war is declared between England and France.

After escaping from an insane asylum, the hilariously crazy Chief Inspector Dreyfus sends 26 assassins on the trail of hapless Inspector Clouseau.

In this farcical spoof of British colonial policy, Michael Caine stars as Baxter Thwaites, the Governor of the fictional Caribbean British territory, Cascara. His idyllic existence is thrown into chaos when an abandoned oil well strikes mineral water. England wants the island dumped, France want it bombed, America wants it wholesale and Michael Caine wants it on the rocks.

Classic sci-fi epic about a mysterious monolith that seems to play a key role in human evolution.