Review, buy 1960s: The Bargee [1964], Dr. Strangelove [1963], Robin And The 7 Hoods [1964], Send Me No Flowers [1964], The Plank [1967], The Intelligence Men [1965], Big Job, The / Watch Your Stern [1965], Light Up The Sky [1960], Till Death Us Do Part [1969], The Great Race [1965], Breakfast At Tiffany's [1961], The Party [1968], The Producers [1967], Billy Liar [1963], Father Goose [1964], The Magnificent Two [1967], Dad's Army - Room At The Bottom/War Dance/Getting The Bird [1968], Carry On Screaming [1966], What A Carve Up [1961], Monte Carlo or Bust [1969]

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Review Dd Home Entertainment / The Bargee [1964]

The Bargee [1964] (Dd Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Harry H. Corbett
Julia Foster
Eric Sykes
Duncan Wood
Hugh Griffith
Ronnie Barker

Release date: 2003-04-21
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Ray Galton
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £19.75

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Review 4 Front Video / Dr. Strangelove [1963]

Dr. Strangelove [1963] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Keenan Wynn
Stanley Kubrick
Peter Sellers
Sterling Hayden
George C. Scott
Slim Pickens

Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Terry Southern
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £1.00

Review Dr. Strangelove [1963] / 4 Front Video:

Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made, Stanley Kubrick's cold war classic is the ultimate satire of the nuclear age. Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, to give it its full title, is a perfect spoof of political and military insanity, beginning when General Jack D Ripper (Sterling Hayden), a maniacal warrior obsessed with "the purity of precious bodily fluids", mounts his singular campaign against Communism by ordering a squadron of B-52 bombers to attack the Soviet Union. The Soviets counter the threat with a so-called "Doomsday Device," and the world hangs in the balance while the US president (Peter Sellers) engages in hilarious hot-line negotiations with his Soviet counterpart. Sellers also plays a British military attaché and the mad scientist Dr Strangelove; George C Scott is outrageously frantic as General Buck Turgidson, whose presidential advice consists mainly of panic and statistics about "acceptable losses". With dialogue ("You can't fight here! This is the war room!") and images (Slim Pickens's character riding the bomb to oblivion) that have become a part of our cultural vocabulary, Kubrick's film regularly appears on critics' lists of the all-time best. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

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Review Warner Home Video / Robin And The 7 Hoods [1964]

Robin And The 7 Hoods [1964] (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Dean Martin
Peter Falk
Bing Crosby
Sammy Davis Jr.
Gordon Douglas
Frank Sinatra

Release date: 1990-05-21
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: David R. Schwartz
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £14.95

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Review 4 Front Video / Send Me No Flowers [1964]

Send Me No Flowers [1964] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Doris Day
Rock Hudson
Tony Randall
Hal March
Paul Lynde
Norman Jewison

Release date: 2001-12-27
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Norman Barasch
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £3.95

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The Plank [1967] (ITV DVD)

Actors & Directors

Jimmy Edwards
Eric Sykes
Roy Castle
Graham Stark
Tommy Cooper
Eric Sykes

Release date: 1992-06-01
Run time: 46 min.
Creator: Jon Penington
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £7.49

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Review ITV DVD / The Intelligence Men [1965]

The Intelligence Men [1965] (ITV DVD)

Actors & Directors

April Olrich
Gloria Paul
Ernie Wise
Robert Asher
William Franklyn
Eric Morecambe

Release date: 2002-05-20
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Sidney Green
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £2.65

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Review Warner Home Video / Big Job, The / Watch Your Stern [1965]

Big Job, The / Watch Your Stern [1965] (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Gerald Thomas
Joan Sims
Eric Barker
Kenneth Connor
Leslie Phillips
Noel Purcell

Release date: 1994-07-04
Run time: 169 min.
Creator: Vivian Cox
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £19.88

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Light Up The Sky [1960] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Johnny Briggs
Lewis Gilbert
Ian Carmichael
Dick Emery
Benny Hill
Tommy Steele

Release date: 1997-07-21
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Vernon Harris
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £24.99

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Review Warner Home Video / Till Death Us Do Part [1969]

Till Death Us Do Part [1969] (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Warren Mitchell
Norman Cohen
Anthony Booth
Liam Redmond
Una Stubbs
Dandy Nichols

Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Johnny Speight
Price: £5.99

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Review Warner Home Video / The Great Race [1965]

The Great Race [1965] (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Keenan Wynn
Blake Edwards
Jack Lemmon
Natalie Wood
Peter Falk
Tony Curtis

Release date: 2001-02-19
Run time: 153 min.
Creator: Arthur A. Ross
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £24.99

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Breakfast At Tiffany's [1961]

Breakfast At Tiffany's [1961] (Paramount Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Buddy Ebsen
Martin Balsam
George Peppard
Patricia Neal
Audrey Hepburn
Blake Edwards

Release date: 1995-10-09
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Truman Capote
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £3.20

Review Breakfast At Tiffany's [1961] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

No film better utilises Audrey Hepburn's flighty charm and svelte beauty than this romantic adaptation of Truman Capote's novella. Hepburn's urban sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewellery. George Peppard is her upstairs neighbour, a struggling writer and "kept" man financed by a steely older woman (Patricia Neal). His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon turns to love and threatens the delicate balance of both of their compromised lives. Taking liberties with Capote's bittersweet story, director Blake Edwards and screenwriter George Axelrod turn New York into a city of lovers and create a poignant portrait of Holly, a frustrated romantic with a secret past and a hidden vulnerability. Composer Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song "Moon River" and his tastefully romantic score. The only sour note in the whole film is Mickey Rooney's demeaning performance as the apartment's Japanese manager, an offensively overdone stereotype even in 1961. The rest of the film has weathered the decades well. Edwards's elegant yet light touch, Axelrod's generous screenplay and Hepburn's mix of knowing experience and naivety combine to create one of the great screen romances and a refined slice of high-society bohemian chic. -Sean Axmaker.

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Review MGM Entertainment / The Party [1968]

The Party [1968] (MGM Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Marge Champion
Claudine Longet
Natalia Borisova
Blake Edwards
Jean Carson
Peter Sellers

Release date: 1996-06-17
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Tom Waldman
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £21.99

Review The Party [1968] / MGM Entertainment:

Though this film is a relatively minor one in the massive canon of Peter Sellers, it has moments of absolute hilarity. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, one of Sellers' most fertile collaborators, the film stars Sellers as a would-be actor from India (let them try to get away with that today) who is a walking disaster area. After ruining a day's shooting as an extra on a film, he finds himself unintentionally invited to a big Hollywood party. That's pretty much it as far as plot goes, but Edwards and Sellers know how to milk a simple idea for an unending string of slapstick gags. The result is a film that is episodic and sketchy but also frequently loony in an inspired way. -Marshall Fine.

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Review 4 Front Video / The Producers [1967]

The Producers [1967] (4 Front Video)

Actors & Directors

Kenneth Mars
Lee Meredith
Zero Mostel
Dick Shawn
Gene Wilder
Mel Brooks

Release date: 2001-04-16
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Sidney Glazier
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £6.99

Review The Producers [1967] / 4 Front Video:

Mel Brooks' directorial debut remains both a career high point and a classic show-business farce. Hinging on a crafty plot premise, which in turn unleashes a joyously insane onstage spoof, The Producers is powered by a clutch of over-the-top performances, capped by the odd couple pairing of the late Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, making his screen debut. Mostel is Max Bialystock, a gone-to-seed Broadway producer who spends his days wheedling cheques from his "investors", elderly women for whom Bialystock is only too willing to provide company. When wide-eyed auditor Leo Bloom (Wilder) comes to check the books, he unwittingly inspires the wild-eyed Max to hatch a sure-fire plan: sell 25,000 per cent of his next show, produce a deliberate flop, then abscond with the proceeds. Unfortunately for the producers (but fortunately for us), their candidate for failure is Springtime for Hitler, a Brooksian conceit that envisions what Goebbels might have accomplished with a little help from Busby Berkeley. Truly startling during its original 1968 release, The Producers does show signs of age in some peripheral scenes that make merry at the expense of gays and women. But the show's nifty cast (notably including the late Dick Shawn as LSD, the space cadet that snags the musical's title role, and Kenneth Mars as the helmeted playwright) clicks throughout, and the sight of Mostel fleecing his marks is irresistibly funny. Add Wilder's literally hysterical Bloom, and it's easy to understand the film's exalted status among late-60s comedies. -Sam Sutherland, Amazon. com.

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Review Warner Home Video / Billy Liar [1963]

Billy Liar [1963] (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Tom Courtenay
John Schlesinger
Julie Christie
Wilfred Pickles
Ethel Griffies
Mona Washbourne

Release date: 1994-08-01
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Willis Hall
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £4.70

Review Billy Liar [1963] / Warner Home Video:

Billy Liar was the multimedia phenomenon of its era. Starting out as a novel by Yorkshire writer Keith Waterhouse, it rapidly became a long-running stage play, adapted by Waterhouse with playwright Willis Hall, which lead to the movie, scripted by Waterhouse and Hall for John Schlesinger to direct, then a stage musical and finally a spin-off TV series. Do you get the feeling it caught the mood of the times? The basic set-up owes a lot to James Thurber's classic short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Our hero, Billy Fisher, lives at home in a Bradford semi with his nagging parents and works as a lowly clerk in an undertaker's parlour. But, in his imagination he lives a rich and varied fantasy life as gallant military leader, suave socialite, best-selling novelist and so forth. Trouble is, he can't always keep fantasy and reality apart, any more than he can the keep two girls he's engaged to separate. Not to mention his other problems…. Schlesinger's direction brings out the desperation behind the comedy, and Tom Courtenay, at once defiant and hangdog, slips perfectly into the role created on stage by Albert Finney. But the whole cast's a joy, not least the great Leonard Rossiter as undertaker Mr Shadrach, Billy's saturnine boss. And then there's Julie Christie-the luminous spirit of the Swinging 60s-in her first starring role as the girl who offers Billy a chance of real escape. [+]

At the end, when she takes the train to London, away from the smoke and the grimness "oop" north, the whole British New Wave went with her. On the DVD: just the theatrical trailer which is a fairly crass affair. There's been no remastering, it seems, but both sound and vision are clean enough and the print preserves the original's full 2. 35:1 widescreen ratio. -Philip Kemp.

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