The Cool Mikado (1962) was adapted from the famous Gilbert & Sullivan opera The Mikado and starred the great Frankie Howerd and a cast of British comedians and entertainers such as Lionel Blair, Tommy Cooper, Mike & Bernie Winters, Pete Murray and Stubby Kaye.

Lambasted on release and apparently the subject of a running joke between Frankie Howerd ("absolutely incomprehensible gibberish") and director Michael Winner ("you have to understand that I'm a genius"), The Cool Mikado is today viewed more sympathetically and indeed regarded as many as a genuine artifact of surrealist (and camp) cinema.

Packaging & Liner Notes
CD: 3 fold digipack with cast list and small introduction (half of which we nicked to write this).