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Review 4 Front Video / The Virgin Soldiers [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Rachel Kempson
  • John Dexter (II)
  • Nigel Patrick
  • Nigel Davenport
  • Hywel Bennett
  • Lynn Redgrave
Release date: 2003-01-13
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

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Review Warner Home Video / School For Scoundrels [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Dennis Price
  • Janette Scott
  • Hal E. Chester
  • Cyril Frankel
  • Robert Hamer
  • Alastair Sim
  • Ian Carmichael
  • Terry-Thomas
Release date: 1998-07-06
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.48

Review School For Scoundrels [1960] / Warner Home Video:

In School for Scoundrels wimpy Ian Carmichael wants to impress girls and get one over on all-round show-off and cad Terry Thomas (playing gloriously to type). Discovering Alastair Simms' unorthodox school Carmichael happily enrols and learns the quaint tricks of the day for securing the admiration of a fair lady. Ultimately as a star pupil he teaches the Master a thing or two about true love when everything turns out just fine in the end. Appealing to all male sensibilities is the idea of a magical set of simple rules for winning someone's affections. Set in the tweed-rich environment of an English boarding school makes this an even quainter notion. To watch this classic comedy is to cock one's snoot at womanisers everywhere while unavoidably making a mental list of anything that might actually work! The three central performances are brilliantly realised, particularly the role reversal between Carmichael and Thomas. Try playing a tennis match after a viewing without calling "hard cheese". -Paul Tonks.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Charlie Chaplin - Limelight [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Jagathi Sreekumar
  • Harisree Asokan
  • Kalpana (IV)
  • P.K. Radhakrishnan
  • Premkumar
  • Sindhuja
Release date: 1993-01-11
Run time: 145 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.99

Review Charlie Chaplin - Limelight [1952] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Frank Rice
  • Stan Laurel
  • Charles K. French
  • Oliver Hardy
  • James W. Horne
  • Thelma Todd
Run time: 45 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Laurel And Hardy - No. 48 - Laughing Gravy / Chickens Come Home [1931] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review Orbit Media Ltd. / Abbott And Costello - Live - Volume 1 [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Lou Costello
  • Bud Abbott
Release date: 1993-09-06
Run time: 57 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Abbott And Costello - Live - Volume 1 [1951] / Orbit Media Ltd.:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - The Hoose- Gow / The Second Hundred Years / Call Of The Cuckoos [1929]
Actors & Directors
  • Kay Reynolds
  • Jud Taylor
  • John Erman
  • Bob Claver
  • Majel Barrett
  • Russ Mayberry
  • Karen Black
  • R. Robert Rosenbaum
  • Norbert Schiller
  • Bridget Hanley
Release date: 2000-04-17
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.94

Review Laurel And Hardy - The Hoose- Gow / The Second Hundred Years / Call Of The Cuckoos [1929] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review Warner Home Video / Carry On Regardless [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Joan Sims
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Ralph Thomas
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Kenneth Connor
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Sid James
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.98

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Review 2 Entertain Video / They Got Me Covered [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • David Butler|Bob Hope|Dorothy Lamour|Otto Preminger
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £16.75

Review They Got Me Covered [1942] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Good Times [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • George Sanders
  • Sonny & Cher
  • Sonny Bono
  • William Friedkin
  • Norman Alden
  • Cher
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.54

Review Good Times [1966] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:

A real archaeological artefact from 1967, Good Times will be mostly of interest to anyone who wants to see a parade of fashions that Austin Powers would reject as too garish to be seen on the street in. The nothingy plot concerns then-married Sonny and Cher playing themselves as a one-note bickering sit-com couple, signing up with sinister film tycoon Mordicus (an impeccable George Sanders) to make a movie but not wanting to do the mouldy rags-to-riches hillbilly script on offer. Cher is supposed to be less interested than Sonny in making a movie-which might well have been the truth since she mostly lies around doodling outrageous fashion designs or contributing her strange sung-through-the-nose vocals as poor, goofy Sonny does all the hard work flogging life into skits that had been squeezed dry by the Monkees before being passed to him. The finale finds Sonny and Cher standing up for integrity and refusing to make a bad film even if it means they gets blacklisted all over town-a lesson it's a shame that they (especially Cher) didn't take to heart in their later careers. Astonishingly, this was the feature directorial debut of The Exorcist's William Friedkin, who fills the screen with colour, action and gaggery after the manner of the then-hip Batman TV show while focusing on screaming outfits that remain among the darnedest things you ever saw. Aside from a reprise of "I Got You, Babe", the score is a little light on the slim canon of S&C hits; the songs included are "It's the Little Things", "Good Times", "Trust Me", "Don't Talk to Strangers", "I'm Gonna Love You" and "Just a Name". The DVD extras include a few sketchy bios and a jump-to-a-song feature. -Kim Newman.

Review Cinema Club / Man Of The Moment / Up In The World [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Belinda Lee
  • John Paddy Carstairs
  • Lana Morris
  • Norman Wisdom
  • Jerry Desmonde
  • Maureen Swanson
Release date: 1999-01-03
Run time: 172 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.49

Review Man Of The Moment / Up In The World [1955] / Cinema Club:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - Hog Wild / Perfect Day / Thicker Than Water [1930]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Hall
  • Stan Laurel
  • Fay Holderness
  • Oliver Hardy
  • James Finlayson
  • James Parrott
  • James Horne
Release date: 1998-09-07
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £16.38

Review Laurel And Hardy - Hog Wild / Perfect Day / Thicker Than Water [1930] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review Warner Home Video / Carry On Cleo [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Joan Sims
  • Kenneth Connor
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Sid James
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.09

Review Carry On Cleo [1964] / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Hermione Gingold
  • George Cole
  • Joan Collins
  • Kenneth More
  • Robertson Hare
  • Noel Langley
Release date: 1995-05-22
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.29

Review The Adventures Of Sadie [1953] / Universal Pictures UK:


Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Summers
  • Frank Launder
  • Bill Fraser
  • Reg Varney
  • Stanley Baxter
  • Barbara Windsor
  • Harry H. Corbett
Release date: 1994-06-27
Run time: 146 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £32.99

Review Joey Boy / San Ferry Ann [1965] / Lumiere Pictures:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - No. 16 - Be Big/Laughing Gravy [1930]
Actors & Directors
  • Stan Laurel
  • Charlie Hall
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Isabelle Keith
  • James Parrott
  • James W. Horne
  • Anita Garvin
Release date: 1997-07-14
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.45

Review Laurel And Hardy - No. 16 - Be Big/Laughing Gravy [1930] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review Warner Home Video / Mister Roberts [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Betsy Palmer
  • William Powell
  • James Cagney
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Jack Lemmon
  • Henry Fonda
  • Joshua Logan
  • John Ford
Release date: 1994-07-04
Run time: 115 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £17.98

Review Mister Roberts [1955] / Warner Home Video:

Henry Fonda recreated his Broadway hit for this 1955 film that was mostly directed by Fonda's frequent collaborator, John Ford (Young Mr Lincoln, My Darling Clementine)-an ailing Ford was replaced at some point by Mervyn LeRoy-and the results are exceptionally fine. A perfect cast, including James Cagney's irascible captain, William Powell's thoughtful physician and Jack Lemmon's Oscar-winning Ensign Pulver, give Fonda the right boost to portray his ennui-burdened officer with dignity, self-effacing humour, and not a trace of self-pity. Mister Roberts is a wonderful film. -Tom Keogh.

Review ITV DVD / Waltz Of The Toreadors [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Sellers
  • Dany Robin
  • Cyril Cusack
  • Margaret Leighton
  • John Guillermin
  • John Fraser
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.99

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Review 4 Front Video / The Thrill Of It All [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Andrews
  • Arlene Francis
  • James Garner
  • Doris Day
  • Reginald Owen
  • Norman Jewison
Release date: 2001-12-27
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.25

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Review Warner Home Video / I'm Alright Jack / Heavens Above [1959 / 1963)
Actors & Directors
  • Roy Boulting
  • Ian Carmichael
  • Peter Sellers
  • Cecil Parker
  • Isabel Jeans
  • John Boulting
  • Bernard Miles
Release date: 1996-03-11
Run time: 214 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £11.99

Review I'm Alright Jack / Heavens Above [1959 / 1963) / Warner Home Video:

British cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s turned out a series of gently satirical films which mocked established institutions, and Heavens Above is the member of that group that turned its attention to religion. Peter Sellers, in an unusually low-key performance that's all the better for being underplayed, stars as a young vicar whose tendencies to interpret Christian doctrines in his own individualistic way, rather than conform to church traditions, leads to all kinds of chaos. He really believes, for example, in taking from the rich to give the poor. It's a quietly funny film rather than a festival of belly laughs, but the points it scores against religious hypocrisies are deftly and persuasively made, and it's one of those British comedies where squadrons of lovely character actors fill out the minor roles. Any fan of vintage British comedy will find a cast including Irene Handl, Eric Sykes, Miriam Karlin, Ian Carmichael, Cecil Parker and Roy Kinnear hard to resist, and there are also very brief appearances from Derek Nimmo and Rodney Bewes at the beginning of their careers. -Andy Medhurst I'm All Right Jack After a decade on radio in The Goons, 1959's I'm All Right Jack set Peter Sellers on the road to international stardom. Sellers played both Sir John Kennaway and, unforgettably, the Bolshy trade union leader Fred Kite (he would go on to take three roles in Dr Strangelove and featured endless disguises in The Pink Panther in 1963) series. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satiric edge, lampooning the then burning issue of industrial relations. Bertram Tracepurcel's (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme which involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) into acting as the catalyst in an escalating labour dispute, from which the socialist Mr Kite is only too keen to make capital. Management and labour both have their self-serving hypocrisy dissected in this ingenious comedy, actually a sequel to the military comedy Private's Progress (1956), but which stands independent of the earlier film. [+]
Both films were made by the brothers John and Roy Boulting, director and producer of such British classics as Brighton Rock (1947), Seven Days to Noon (1950), Carlton-Browne of the F. O. (1959) and Heaven's Above (1963). The superb cast of I'm All Right Jack also features Richard Attenborough, John Le Mesurier, Margaret Rutherford and Terry Thomas. -Gary S. DalkinHeavens Above British cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s turned out a series of gently satirical films which mocked established institutions, and Heavens Above is the member of that group that turned its attention to religion. Peter Sellers, in an unusually low-key performance that's all the better for being underplayed, stars as a young vicar whose tendencies to interpret Christian doctrines in his own individualistic way, rather than conform to church traditions, leads to all kinds of chaos. He really believes, for example, in taking from the rich to give the poor. It's a quietly funny film rather than a festival of belly laughs, but the points it scores against religious hypocrisies are deftly and persuasively made, and it's one of those British comedies where squadrons of wonderful character actors fill out the minor roles. Any fan of vintage British comedy will find a cast including Irene Handl, Eric Sykes, Miriam Karlin, Ian Carmichael, Cecil Parker and Roy Kinnear hard to resist, and there are also very brief appearances from Derek Nimmo and Rodney Bewes at the beginning of their careers. -Andy Medhurst.

Actors & Directors
  • Alfie Bass
  • Patricia Hayes
  • Joan Sims
  • Gretchen Franklin
  • Douglas Argent (II)
  • Dandy Nichols
Release date: 1991-07-01
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Till Death Us Do Part [1965] / 2 Entertain Video:


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The Virgin Soldiers [1969], School For Scoundrels [1960], Charlie Chaplin - Limelight [1952], Laurel And Hardy - No. 48 - Laughing Gravy / Chickens Come Home [1931], Abbott And Costello - Live - Volume 1 [1951], Laurel And Hardy - The Hoose- Gow / The Second Hundred Years / Call Of The Cuckoos [1929], Carry On Regardless [1961], They Got Me Covered [1942], Good Times [1966], Man Of The Moment / Up In The World [1955], Laurel And Hardy - Hog Wild / Perfect Day / Thicker Than Water [1930], Carry On Cleo [1964], The Adventures Of Sadie [1953], Joey Boy / San Ferry Ann [1965], Laurel And Hardy - No. 16 - Be Big/Laughing Gravy [1930], Mister Roberts [1955], Waltz Of The Toreadors [1962], The Thrill Of It All [1963], I'm Alright Jack / Heavens Above [1959 / 1963), Till Death Us Do Part [1965]

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