Short, made for TV version with Michael Palin, Tim Curry and Stephen Moore. The funniest scene in the book - trying to open the can of pineapple - is also the funniest scene in this - a nicely visual interpretation. Has an unexpectedly serious outcome. Adapted by Tom Stoppard (wish I'd watched the documentary now) from Jerome K Jerome.
The Shelley is 'From Laon and Cythna; or the Revolution of the Golden City':
No longer where the woods to frame a bower
With interlaced branches mix and meet,
Or where with sound like many voices sweet,
Water-falls leap among wild islands green,
Which framed for my lone boat a lone retreat
Of moss-grown trees and weeds, shall I be seen:
But beside thee, where still my heart has ever been.
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