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{{Infobox film
| image          = The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film.jpg
| caption        = Title card
| director       = [[Richard Lester|Dick Lester]]<br>[[Peter Sellers]]
| producer       = Peter Sellers
| screenplay         = [[Spike Milligan]]<br>Peter Sellers<br>[[Mario Fabrizi]]<br>Dick Lester
| story = Peter Sellers
| starring       = Peter Sellers<br>Spike Milligan
| music          = Dick Lester
| cinematography = Dick Lester
| editing        = Dick Lester<br>Peter Sellers
| studio         = Peter Sellers Productions
| distributor    = [[British Lion Films]]
| released       = November 1959
| runtime        = 11 minutes<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/running-jumping-standing-still-film-1959|title=THE RUNNING JUMPING & STANDING STILL FILM - British Board of Film Classification|website=www.bbfc.co.uk}}</ref>
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = £70
}}
'''''The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film''''' is a 1959 British [[sketch comedy]] [[short film]] directed by [[Richard Lester]] and [[Peter Sellers]], in collaboration with [[Bruce Lacey]]. The film was released in 1959.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-running-jumping-standing-still-film-v151423/cast-crew|title=The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959) - Richard Lester, Peter Sellers - Cast and Crew - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}</ref>

It was filmed over two Sundays in 1959, at a cost of around £70 ({{Inflation|UK|70|1959|r=0|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}) (including £5 for the rental of a field).<ref name="Tele">{{cite web|url=http://telegoons.org/history_4_running_jumping.htm|title=Running Jumping & Standing Still...|work=A Short History of The Telegoons...|publisher=The Goon Show Preservation Society|accessdate=2008-07-02}}</ref>

It was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]], but did not win.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WqiDBQAAQBAJ&q=The+Running+Jumping+&pg=PA54|title=British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence|first=Simon|last=Philo|date=6 November 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810886278|via=Google Books}}</ref> It was a favourite of [[The Beatles]], which led to Lester's being hired to direct ''[[A Hard Day's Night (film)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' and then ''[[Help! (film)|Help!]]'', in which Lacey makes a guest appearance as [[George Harrison]]'s gardener in the sequence where the group arrive at their 'home'.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1K_ZCgAAQBAJ&q=The+Running+Jumping+&pg=PT160|title=Rock 'N' Film: Cinema's Dance With Popular Music|first=David E.|last=James|date=10 December 2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199387625|via=Google Books}}</ref>

The short film has been made available as a special feature on several home video releases of ''A Hard Day's Night''. It is also featured in ''The Unknown Peter Sellers'' and a [[British Film Institute|BFI]] released collection of rarely seen films from Bruce Lacey's career entitled ''The Lacey Rituals''. It is also included as a special feature of the [[StudioCanal]] issue of ''[[I'm All Right Jack]]''.

==Cast==
*[[Richard Lester]]
*[[Peter Sellers]]
*[[Spike Milligan]]
*[[Mario Fabrizi]]
*[[Bruce Lacey]]
*[[David Lodge (actor)|David Lodge]]
*[[Leo McKern]]
*[[Norman Rossington]]
*[[Graham Stark]]

==Critical reception==
''[[BFI Screenonline]]'' concluded that the film's lasting legacy "was its influence (as part of Milligan's overall body of work) on British comedy in general, and on [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]] (BBC, 1969-74) in particular. This is evident not only in its surreal humour, but in the way that elements of one routine are threaded through subsequent scenes, transcending the stand-alone [[Sketch comedy|sketch form]] - a tactic subsequently favoured by the Python team."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/471274/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film, The (1960)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine called it "Sublime slapstick surrealism."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/running-jumping-standing-still-film/review/|title=The Running, Jumping And Standing Still Film|first=David|last=Parkinson|website=Empire}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|0053231}}
* {{AllRovi movie|151423|The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film}}
*{{Screenonline title|471274}}
*{{Internet Archive short film|therunningjumpingandstandingstillfilm}}

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[[Category:1959 films]]
[[Category:British films]]
[[Category:1959 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Peter Sellers]]
[[Category:Films directed by Richard Lester]]
[[Category:1959 short films]]
[[Category:Surreal comedy]]
[[Category:Surrealist films]]
[[Category:Comedy short films]]
[[Category:Goon Show derived films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]