However, four decades on, the film, with so many inappropriate racial jokes and language, will get the woke brigade up in arms.
Few may remember the 1983 film Trading Places, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. The story of how an upper-class commodities broker’s life is swapped with a poor street hustler, as part of an elaborate bet to test how each man will perform when their life circumstances are swapped, is ranked by some as one of the greatest comedy and Christmas films ever made.
