Julian Chagrin – MRQE

The Emperor’s New Clothes

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In Europe several several centuries ago, a group of prisoners about to be executed are freed as part of the celebration of the upcoming marriage of the emperor’s daughter, Princess Gilda, to a very rich prince from another country. Sid Caesar composed the song “Clothes Make the Man”. Ran 93 minutes on German TV.

Red Riding Hood

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The high spirited daughter of the village lord and her mother have been living in the forest for seven years near her wise grandmother. They wait for her father to come home, meanwhile, her literally heartless uncle rules. He sells his soul for the aid of an enchanted wolf who turns himself human in order to spy. As the tyranical lord begins to see his niece as a threat, he sends the wolf to deal with her.

The Great McGonagall

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who falls in love with Queen Victoria – a brilliant cameo by Peter Sellers – and thereafter devotes his banal poetry to her. Though McGonagall’s solicitations are rejected by the Queen, it doesn’t stop the turgid prose, and pathos, from overflowing as McGonagall hilariously attempts to become the greatest poet in the land. The image of the bad poet, trapped by his romanticism and inspired by a muse with a tin ear, appealed mightily to Spike Milligan, and this cult British spoof features the Goons show maestro at his ridiculous, genre-defying best.