The comically convoluted plot is a pastiche of many of the operas in the Gilbert and Sullivan canon, particularly Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer, H.M.S. Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done is a 1975 British animated film musical, based on the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Original color pictorial (price-clipped) dust jacket. Publisher's red paper cloth over boards, spine lettered in gilt. Profusely illustrated in color throughout.

Dick Deadeye based on the drawings of Ronald Searle and the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. Obviously it has to be retrieved, and Dick Deadeye is just the man to do it.' SEARLE, Ronald. The trouble is, it's so secret that no knows what it is. In addition to advertisements and posters, Searle drew the title backgrounds of the Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder film The Happiest Days of Your Life.'. He collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books (Down With Skool!, 1953, and How to be Topp, 1954), and with Alex Atkinson on travel books. He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge. His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle. Obviously it has to be retrieved, and Dick Deadeye is just the man to do it.' 'Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch. The trouble is, it's so secret that no one knows what it is. Based on ' the full-length animated film Dick Deadeye, written and produced by Leo Rost and Robin Miller.' 'The Ultimate Secret has been stolen.

The price clipped dust jacket has some generalized toning to the white portions and some beginning edge wear to the spine ends and corners. The endpapers have some light, generalized toning.

There are two small bumps to the bottom edges of the book cover. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. Color Illustrations Based on the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. Illustrated by Ronald Searle (illustrator).

Dick Deadeye by Ronald Searle