Peter Yates directs Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Edward Fox in this backstage drama where a fey assistant tries to keep his tyrannical employer, a mentally fading Shakespearean actor, on the rails for one last performance of Lear.

A filmed play. My least favourite medium but given the theatre setting we can give this one a pass. Two full fat, high camp performances that rollick against each other. It is dark but I chuckled a lot. I wonder if The League Of Gentleman lads love this. The camp and mutually assured destructive marriage of monsters feels like a massive part of their DNA.

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Perfect Double Bill: Noises Off (1992)