He also praised Stephens's performance, likening it to Leslie Nielsen's in The Naked Gun.
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The Liverpool Echo's Paddy Shennan called it "deliciously black" and added that it could become a "cop classic".
After an expedition in 1890 to Cilicia Trachea, where he obtained a valuable collection of inscriptions, Bent spent a year in South Africa, with the object, by investigation of some of the ruins in Mashonaland, of throwing light on the vexed question of their origin and on the early history of East Africa.