![Review Warner Home Video / Two Way Stretch / Only Two Can Play - Peter Sellers Double Feature [VHS] [1960]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MRZBW23ZL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Peter Sellers
- Robert Day
- Sidney Gilliat
- David Lodge
- Bernard Cribbins
- Maurice Denham
- Wilfrid Hyde-White
Run time: 186 min.
Creator: Vivian Cox
Price: £12.99
Review Two Way Stretch / Only Two Can Play - Peter Sellers Double Feature [VHS] [1960] / Warner Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Dick Van Dyke
- Nancy Kwan
- Byron Paul
Creator: Nancy Kwan
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.35
Review Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. [VHS] [1966] / Walt Disney Home Video D201332:
![Review Castle Home Video / How To Irritate People [VHS] [1968]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419DCX8HCZL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Gillian Lind
- Tim Brooke-Taylor
- Michael Palin
- Ian Fordyce
- Graham Chapman
- John Cleese
Run time: 65 min.
Creator: Marty Feldman
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.25
Review How To Irritate People [VHS] [1968] / Castle Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Harry Andrews
- Pauline Delaney
- Millicent Martin
- Denholm Elliott
- Clive Donner
- Alan Bates
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Stanley Ellin
Price: £9.99
Review Nothing But The Best [VHS] [1964] / Lumiere Pictures:
![Review 4 Front Video / Sweet Charity [VHS] [1969]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QYQPNVSQL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Shirley MacLaine
- John McMartin
- Paula Kelly
- Stubby Kaye
- Bob Fosse
- Chita Rivera
Run time: 142 min.
Creator: Tullio Pinelli
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.94
Review Sweet Charity [VHS] [1969] / 4 Front Video:After several years as the hottest musical director on Broadway, Bob Fosse made his film directorial debut with this movie version of his Broadway hit, which was based on Fellini's Nights of Cabiria. Shirley MacLaine is terrific as the proverbial hooker with the heart of gold, one who is convinced that she will find the right man if she just turns enough tricks. The Cy Coleman score is a solid one; the film is at its best when Fosse lets his cast of singer-dancers (which includes Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, and Sammy Davis Jr) unleash his leggy brand of choreography. While the film suffers from stylistic excesses of the period, you can see the seeds being planted for Fosse's future musical film forays in Cabaret and All That Jazz. -Marshall Fine.
![Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Barefoot In The Park [VHS] [1967]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R916CAP4L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Gene Saks
- Jane Fonda
- Herb Edelman
- Robert Redford
- Mildred Natwick
- Charles Boyer
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Neil Simon
Price: £5.99
Review Barefoot In The Park [VHS] [1967] / Paramount Home Entertainment:Based on Neil Simon's own play, 1967's Barefoot in the Park is a perennially joyous film starring carefree Jane Fonda and staid lawyer Robert Redford as young newlyweds setting up home in Greenwich Village. Although the opening credits are fragrantly idyllic (aided by Neal Hefti's soundtrack, you can almost smell the blossom in Central Park), the film doesn't idealise apartment living in New York, à la Friends, far from it: Fonda and Redford's apartment is up several flights of stairs; there's a hole in the skylight and the bedroom is the size of a cupboard. All of this puts some strain on the marriage. When Fonda introduces fellow free spirit and ageing, behind-on-the-rent Lothario (Charles Boyer) to her somewhat inhibited mother (Mildred Natwick), the hapless Redford in particular is forced to come to terms with his own inhibitions. Although the second half of the film moves at a less cracking pace than the first, Barefoot in the Park is as exhilarating as a romantic weekend city break. Directo r Gene Saks, scriptwriter Neil Simon and composer Hefti would regroup in 1968 to make the similarly wonderful The Odd Couple. On the DVD: With the aid of filtering, the DVD recaptures the almost unreal colour quality common to films of this period, while the sound is faithful to the nuances of Hefti's soundtrack. The special features are miserly-subtitles, a choice of languages and the original trailer, though this at least conveys the engaging naiveté of the period-("The rarest, unsquarest, happiest motion picture in many a year!"). -David Stubbs.
![Review Warner Home Video / The Rebel [VHS] [1960]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510ZV8PXY2L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Robert Day
- George Sanders
- Margit Saad
- Paul Massie
- Tony Hancock
- Grégoire Aslan
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Ray Galton
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99
Review The Rebel [VHS] [1960] / Warner Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Dustin Hoffman
- Anne Bancroft
- Mike Nichols
- William Daniels
- Murray Hamilton
- Katharine Ross
Run time: 121 min.
Creator: Charles Webb
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.89
Review The Graduate [VHS] [1967] / Bmg Video:Few films have defined a generation as The Graduate did. The alienation, the non-conformity, the intergenerational romance, the blissful Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack-they all served to lob a cultural grenade smack into the middle of 1967 America, ultimately making the film the third most profitable up to that time. Seen from a later perspective, its radical chic has dimmed a bit, yet it's still a joy to see Dustin Hoffman's bemused Benjamin and Anne Bancroft's deliciously decadent, sardonic Mrs. Robinson. The script by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham is still offbeat and dryly funny, and Mike Nichols, who won an Oscar for his direction, has just the right, light touch. -Anne Hurley, Amazon. com.
![Review 4 Front Video / Dr. Strangelove [1963] [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DBPF1ZJ2L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Slim Pickens
- Keenan Wynn
- Stanley Kubrick
- George C. Scott
- Peter Sellers
- Sterling Hayden
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Terry Southern
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.79
Review Dr. Strangelove [1963] [VHS] / 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.
![Review Warner Home Video / Carry On Jack [VHS] [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RS4HYHQ7L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Gerald Thomas
- Kenneth Williams
- Donald Houston
- Charles Hawtrey
- Bernard Cribbins
- Juliet Mills
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Talbot Rothwell
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99
Review Carry On Jack [VHS] [1963] / Warner Home Video:Carry On Jack was the 1963 offering from a team which had, by then, become a repertory company with special guests dropping in for a dose of innuendo. "What's all this jigging in the rigging?" demands Kenneth Williams, this time playing a ship's captain, and the scene is set for 90 minutes of ribaldry involving cross-dressing, press-ganging and plank walking. The plot scarcely matters. It's set after the Battle of Trafalgar and the sea is awash with Spanish galleons and pirates as the British navy sets about defending its shores with as much incompetence as possible. Sally, a barmaid at the Dirty Duck (Juliet Mills in feisty principal boy mode), knocks Bernard Cribbins on the head and steals his uniform so that she can go in search of her childhood sweetheart. He is promptly press-ganged and they end up on the same ship. Williams, on the brink of his ascendancy as a star turn, just about keeps the mannerisms under control enough to build the character of the naïve and neurotic captain. Familiar Carry On faces on top form include Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale, while Peter Gilmore-in his pre-Onedin Line days-appears as a pirate. Peter Rodgers' script is not quite vintage Carry On but the jokes keep coming and it's all good, clean fun. On the DVD: This was one of the first Carry On films to be made in colour. [+]The print is in reasonable condition. The picture quality, apart from a couple of scratchy scenes of sailing ships that were probably drafted in from stock footage, is fair, as is the sound. But apart from the scene index there are no extras on the disc. Given the cult status of the Carry On films, and the wealth of documentary material which has been made about them and their stars, you'd think something extra could have been offered with the DVD releases to make them a more worthwhile alternative to the video. -Piers Ford.
![Review MGM Entertainment / The Pink Panther [VHS] [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5194A7JF7SL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Robert Wagner
- David Niven
- Blake Edwards
- Capucine
- Peter Sellers
- Brenda De Banzie
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Maurice Richlin
RRP: £6.99
Price: £5.99
Review The Pink Panther [VHS] [1963] / MGM Entertainment:
![Review Warner Home Video / The Music Man [VHS] [1962]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PJ59H3KML._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Buddy Hackett
- Paul Ford
- Hermione Gingold
- Morton DaCosta
- Shirley Jones
- Robert Preston
Run time: 146 min.
Creator: Meredith Willson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.99
Review The Music Man [VHS] [1962] / Warner Home Video:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Dad's Army - The Armoured Might Of Lance Corporal Jones [VHS] [1968]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W57X4AESL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- John Laurie
- Arnold Ridley
- Arthur Lowe
- John Le Mesurier
- Clive Dunn
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Jimmy Perry
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.90
Review Dad's Army - The Armoured Might Of Lance Corporal Jones [VHS] [1968] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review First Independent Video / Flesh - Andy Warhol [VHS] [1968]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411S75B30QL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Patti D'Arbanville
- Paul Morrissey
- Joe Dallesandro
- Jackie Curtis
- Candy Darling
- Geraldine Smith
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Andy Warhol
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.95
Review Flesh - Andy Warhol [VHS] [1968] / First Independent Video:
![Review Fabulous Films Ltd. / The Girl On The Boat / What's Good For The Goose [VHS] [1961]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513Z3YN555L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Norman Wisdom
- Richard Briers
- Henry Kaplan
- Millicent Martin
- Sheila Hancock
- Philip Locke
Run time: 195 min.
Creator: Reuben Ship
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.20
Review The Girl On The Boat / What's Good For The Goose [VHS] [1961] / Fabulous Films Ltd.:
![Review Warner Home Video PES 99417 / Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GirhwtHNL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Joan Hackett
- Walter Brennan
- Harry Morgan
- Jack Elam
- Burt Kennedy
- James Garner
Creator: Joan Hackett
Price: £10.99
Review Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) [VHS] / Warner Home Video PES 99417:Starring James Garner as an unwilling sheriff brought in to curb the excitement and influx of desperate characters that hit this western village when gold is discovered nearby.
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Can Can [VHS] [1960]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512BNK1D60L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Walter Lang
- Frank Sinatra
- Juliet Prowse
- Shirley MacLaine
- Louis Jourdan
- Maurice Chevalier
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Dorothy Kingsley
RRP: £5.99
Price: £15.99
Review Can Can [VHS] [1960] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Duncan Wood
- Eric Barker
- Miriam Karlin
- Hugh Griffith
- Eric Sykes
- Harry Secombe
- Ronnie Barker
Creator: Hugh Griffith
RRP: £10.99
Price: £19.99
Review Rhubarb / The Bargee [VHS] [1969] / Lumiere Pictures:
![Review Warner Home Video / Carry On Cabby [VHS] [1963]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YAMR9JZ0L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Esma Cannon
- Charles Hawtrey
- Hattie Jacques
- Kenneth Connor
- Sid James
- Gerald Thomas
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Talbot Rothwell
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.98
Review Carry On Cabby [VHS] [1963] / Warner Home Video:A rare Carry On with more interest in having a proper plot than tossing off gags every line, Cabby is also one of the friendliest of the series, built around the relationship between a cackling but good-hearted Sid James and an unusually touching Hattie Jacques. Sid's so obsessed with his taxi business that he neglects his wife, spending their wedding anniversary driving expectant father Jim Dale to and from the maternity hospital on a false alarm that naturally pays off with a delivery in the back of the cab. This drives Hattie to set up her own rival firm ("Glam Cabs"), employing dolly birds in tailored uniforms to undercut the likes of Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey. It ends happily, with a pair of hold-up men trapped in a ring of taxis and the marriage saved. Among the expected Carry On bits: Connor in drag, Amanda Barrie in a corset, Hawtrey in a leather jacket as a devout rambler ("We like to go as far as we can"), Liz Fraser as Connor's perky intended. Kenneth Williams is missed, but his role as the obnoxious shop steward (Carry On producer Peter Rogers never missed a chance to be nasty about the unions) is ably taken by Norman Chappell. Other familiar faces are Bill Owen, Peter Gilmore, Milo O'Shea, Renee Houston and Michael Ward as the tweedy businessman who has apparently left a pearl earring in the back of Connor's cab. On the DVD: No extras, but it's a smashing widescreen presentation of a pristine black and white print. -Kim Newman.
![Review Palisades Tartan / Age Of Consent [VHS] [1969]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71N3EQJJ5HL._SL160_.gif)
Actors & Directors
- James Mason
- Andonia Katsaros
- Jack MacGowran
- Helen Mirren
- Michael Powell
- Neva Carr-Glynn
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Peter Yeldham
Price: £15.99
Review Age Of Consent [VHS] [1969] / Palisades Tartan:
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