The Statue (1971 film)

The Statue is a 1971 British film comedy starring David Niven, Robert Vaughn and Italian beauty Virna Lisi in the key roles. Monty Pythons John Cleese and Graham Chapman appear in early roles as the Niven characters psychiatrist and a newsreader respectively. Niven plays a nobelprize winning professor who suspects his wife, played by Lisi, of infidelity when she makes and unveils an 18foot statue of him with private parts recognisably not his own. Critical and audience reception of the film was poor, though Niven was praised for his efforts to sustain the film as the main character.

The sculpture is an 18foot nude one of Alex. He is upset and tries to get it suppressed, especially when he notes every aspect of the statue resembles him except for the size of its penis. Rhoda points out that she has only seen Alex eighteen days in the past three years. Alex becomes convinced Rhonda has had an affair and based the size of the genitalia on the model, who he dubs Charlie.Alex seeks advice from his friend Harry, an advertising man trained as a psychiatrist. He tries to track down the model of the statue in order to get it to suppressed. He interrogates a household employee, Joachim, who thinks Alex is hitting on him and beats him up. Alex then goes to a Turkish bathhouse to interview possible Charlies, but is thrown out. ........

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