I'm not a great fan of farce but this is reasonably well done and the craziness of the USSR certainly provides excellent opportunities for bizarre situations.

This 1970s farce has a simple premise - cleaning lady Mrs Harris and her friend Violet win a trip to Soviet Russia. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.He then worked for the National Board of Motion Picture Review, and after six months took a job as the motion picture critic for the New York Daily News.

I was feeling in the mood for something silly and light, and Gallico’s series is entirely reliable for that. Author Paul Gallico attacked the Soviet government with a vengeance – I have to wonder about his own KGB dossier.

Plot-wise, Keystone cop KGB officers mistake a char lady as Lady Char, an aristocrat and therefore clearly a spy.