Half a Boulting Brothers film

Not in the class of the Boulting brothers' following film I'm All Right Jack), but a decent & intermittently funny satire of the British Foreign Office (& the entire Empire itself) as well of Cold War politics. Carlton-Browne of the F.O. is more correctly half a Boulting Bros film being co-written & co-directed by Jeffrey Dell. Star British cast focussing around Terry-Thomas playing the upper class twit this time (the role usually filled by Ian Carmichael), a step sideways for Thomas from the upper class cad role he usually inhabits. Film's most amusing scene is the comical charade of bureaucrat Terry-Thomas's shambolic official welcome by the dignitaries of the tinpot island of Gaillardia led by Peter Sellers. The farcical Gaillardia has parallels with the absurd Grand Duchy of Fenwick in the 'The Mouse' series of movies The Mouse that Roared, The Mouse in the Moon, etc).