Romance with a Double Bass is a 1974 British short comedy film directed by Robert Young and starring John Cleese and Connie Booth.

[4] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: Despite the nineteenth-century Russian dress and a plot with a distant debt to Chekhov, the source of this movie's predominantly whimsical comedy is much closer to home.

Chekhov's affectionate, closely observed social satire has been replaced with the stock antics of a British nudist-camp romp (a squealing blonde, a male bare bottom, and a suggestive but strategically placed instrument case), and the familiar comic convention that, thrown together in a crisis, the aristocracy and the working-class both behave with poker-faced aplomb.

The verbal gags are on the whole less effective, and are not improved by being mostly relegated to throwaway asides: June Whitfield, the Princess' mother, fussing about the late arrival of the strawberries, mutters distractedly, "Cream alone is very unexciting".

[4] David Cornelius of DVD Talk praised the movie as a "wonderful, sweet, and often riotous celebration of life" that combines "playful physical comedy and whimsical nature of the love story that unfolds with a smile".