Sleeper (1973) is probably the funniest Woody Allen movie. Incidentally, I learned about this and other Woody Allen films back in the 1970s from an old (even then it was already old) issue of Америка (Amerika) magazine which just happened to lay around our house. It featured some snapshots from Sleeper, including the one with Allen as a robot butler handling an orb. I did not watch the movie itself until some 20 years later.
Interestingly, the credits say “Music by Woody Allen with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra”, featuring Allen on clarinet. However, according to this comprehensive guide, “the score actually consists entirely of Dixieland/Tin Pan Alley standards, mostly written during the 1920s”.
P.S. 6 February 2024. Just re-watched Sleeper in Teatro Guiniguada. This is the first time I saw it on the big screen. The 50-year-old film lost none of its charm and humour.
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