It starred Robertson Hare, one of the best-loved members of the regular Aldwych team, and Alfred Drayton, an experienced and popular comic actor.
He had spent some years in Malaya as a young man, and wrote, and sometimes improvised, colloquial Malay lines for himself.
The play was revived in 1976, opening at the Savoy Theatre on 19 July, and running till 13 August 1977.
It starred Robert Morley as Digby Pound and George Cole as Willoughby Pink.
It was directed by Walter C. Mycroft, who co-wrote the screenplay with Travers and Lesley Storm.