Lindsay Johns

Trading Places at 30 – one of the funniest films of all time

For my generation at least, this is clearly a classic and a touchstone

Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places Photo: Paramount / The Kobal Collection
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