Cinema: Sellersmanship

The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn. "A robbery, eh? Anything stolen?" To this slyly astute question, posed by the dryly astute Superintendent Quilt (Peter Sellers) of Scotland Yard, the answer is wryly affirmative and highly sinister. It seems that an international ring of Mukkinese battle-horn smugglers has heisted a Mukkinese battle horn from a museum in London. Description of stolen article: about 20 feet of antique copper plumbing, positively pimpled with rubies and emeralds. Looks like an anaconda necking with a nose cone, sounds like a hippo with gastritis, contains a slot for used razor blades.

Where oh where can that...

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