"The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn" is a British 28-minute live action short film from 1956, so this one had its 60th anniversary last year. The director is Joseph Sterling and no less than five writers worked on this one, one of them being lead actor Peter Sellers, who is the big name in this brief movie for sure and probably the only reason why this one isn't forgotten entirely. Admittedly, there are still other names in here that people from Britain with an interest in older films might recognize. It is the story of a priceless horn that gets robbed from a museum and we get to watch the investigators trying to find the one who did it and the horn of course. It says "thriller" as a genre here too on IMDb, but I would say it is 100% comedy really. Sellers was still pretty young here, around the age of 30 and far away from his huge stardom, but he is certainly the most interesting aspect in here. When I read the major plot I thought this could be interesting, but while watching I felt that the longer it went the more messy mayhem it became. And it wasn't half as funny as I hoped it would be. Gotta give this one a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
