Review, buy Comedy: Laurel And Hardy - Scram! / Night Owls / The Midnight Patrol [1932], Adam's Rib [1949], Laurel And Hardy - Blotto / Another Fine Mess [1930], Monkey Business [1952], Charlie Chaplin - A Burlesque On Carmen / Laughing Gas [1914], Carry On Up The Khyber - Collector's Edition [1968], Air Raid Wardens/Nothing Bu [1943], Sylvia Scarlett [1935], Passport To Pimlico [1949], Abbott And Costello - Africa Screams [1949], My Favourite Wife [1940], Beat The Devil [1953], Love Happy [1950], One, Two, Three [1961], Carry on Don't Lose/Head [1967], Laurel And Hardy - County Hospital / Them Thar Hills / Tit Tat [1932], How To Murder Your Wife [1965], Laurel And Hardy - Their Purple Moment / Should Married Men Go Home? / We Faw Fown [1928], Sergeant Bilko - The Eating Contest / The Court Martial / Rock 'n' Roll Rookie [1956], Sergeant Bilko - Dinner At Sowici's / Bilko Goes South / Radio Station B-I-L-K-O [1956]

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Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - Scram! / Night Owls / The Midnight Patrol [1932]

Laurel And Hardy - Scram! / Night Owls / The Midnight Patrol [1932] (Vision Video Ltd.)

Actors & Directors

Oliver Hardy
Vivien Oakland
Lloyd French
Richard Cramer
Jack Lloyd
Stan Laurel
Arthur Housman
Ray McCarey

Release date: 1999-10-18
Run time: 61 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Laurel And Hardy - Scram! / Night Owls / The Midnight Patrol [1932] / Vision Video Ltd.:

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Review MGM Entertainment / Adam's Rib [1949]

Adam's Rib [1949] (MGM Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

George Cukor|Spencer Tracy|Katharine Hepburn|Judy Holliday

Release date: 1998-01-12
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £3.99

Review Adam's Rib [1949] / MGM Entertainment:

Adam's Rib, released in 1949, was one of the on-screen peaks for the matchless pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. George Cukor's instinctively light touch on the director's tiller, the wittiest of Garson Kanin scripts and apparently effortless acting from the stars, merge for 100 minutes of sophisticated comic perfection. It's tempting to think that, as the sparring husband and wife lawyers, Hepburn and Tracy drew on aspects of their now legendary real-life love affair. Screen chemistry alone can't account for the endless nuances, sidelong looks and timing which make Adam's Rib such a delight. There's also a generosity to their fellow actors that few major stars, then or now, would be confident enough to indulge in. Judy Holliday, playing the wife accused of shooting her philandering husband, had still not secured the lead in the film of her Broadway hit, Born Yesterday. Aware that anything else would have been a travesty, Hepburn as her defence lawyer ensured that Holliday was favoured in their scenes together and she duly got the part. In all the best ways, Adam's Rib is a quick-fire battle-of-the-sexes comedy, with Hepburn's brittle feminism striking sparks off Tracy's bemused chauvinism. The verdict might be a victory for Hepburn, but the real winner is an underlying love and respect which made this partnership one of the all time greats. On the DVD: Adam's Rib is presented in standard 4:3 format from a decent print, with a picture quality and mono soundtrack to please anyone who knows the film primarily from TV matinees. [+]

The lack of extras, apart from a scene index, is disappointing for a film of this stature. -Piers Ford.

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Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - Blotto / Another Fine Mess [1930]

Laurel And Hardy - Blotto / Another Fine Mess [1930] (Vision Video Ltd.)

Actors & Directors

Thelma Todd
Harry Bernard
Stan Laurel
Gertrude Sutton
James Parrott
Oliver Hardy

Release date: 1998-09-07
Run time: 53 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Monkey Business [1952]

Monkey Business [1952] (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Howard Hawks
Marilyn Monroe
Charles Coburn
Ginger Rogers
Cary Grant

Release date: 1989-07-06
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £1.87

Review Monkey Business [1952] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

One of the last of the classic screwball comedies, 1952's Monkey Business stars Cary Grant as an absent-minded scientist working on a youth serum with little success. One afternoon, one of his test monkeys gets loose and works up a formula of its own, which then gets dropped into their water cooler. Shortly, Grant is tooling around in a sports car with his boss' voluptuous secretary (Marilyn Monroe). When his wife (Ginger Rogers) investigates, she too gets a dose and drags Grant off for a second honeymoon of all-night dancing. Meanwhile, Grant's elderly boss (Charles Coburn) is eager to get his hands on the formula-only Grant's formula isn't having the proper effect. Monkey Business is probably most familiar to Marilyn Monroe cultists, but it's Grant and Rogers who have the central roles and make the most of them. Rogers' adolescent emotional meltdown at a hotel and Grant leading a gaggle of boys on a scalping raid are only two of the movie's many richly funny set pieces, all directed by the nimble hand of Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, Ball of Fire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes). -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

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Review Orbit Media Ltd. / Charlie Chaplin - A Burlesque On Carmen / Laughing Gas [1914]

Charlie Chaplin - A Burlesque On Carmen / Laughing Gas [1914] (Orbit Media Ltd.)

Actors & Directors

Ben Turpin
Edna Purviance
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin

Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Charlie Chaplin - A Burlesque On Carmen / Laughing Gas [1914] / Orbit Media Ltd.:

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Carry On Up The Khyber - Collector's Edition [1968] (Cinema Club)

Actors & Directors

Sid James
Charles Hawtrey
Kenneth Williams
Joan Sims
Roy Castle
Gerald Thomas

Release date: 1999-09-20
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £9.99

Review Carry On Up The Khyber - Collector's Edition [1968] / Cinema Club:

Filmed in 1968 and set in British India in 1895, Carry On Up the Khyber is one of the team's most memorable efforts. Sid James plays Sid James as ever, though nominally his role is that of Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond, the unflappable British Governor who must deal with the snakelike, scheming Khasi of Khalabar, played by Kenneth Williams. A crisis occurs when the mystique of the "devils in skirts" of the 3rd Foot and Mouth regiment is exploded when one of their number, the sensitive-to-draughts Charles Hawtrey, is discovered by the natives to be wearing underpants. Revolt is in the offing, with Bernard Bresslaw once again playing a seething native warrior. Roy Castle neatly plays the sort of role normally assigned to Jim Dale, as the ineffectual young officer, Peter Butterworth is a splendid compromised evangelist, while Terry Scott puts his comedic all into the role of the gruff Sergeant. Most enduring, however, is the final dinner party sequence in which the British contingent, with the Burpas at the gates of the compound, and plaster falling all about them, demonstrate typical insouciance in the face of imminent peril. The "I'm Backing Britain" Union Jack hoist at the end, however, over-excitedly reveals the streak of reactionary patriotism that lurked beneath the bumbling double-entendres of most Carry On films. -David Stubbs.

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Air Raid Wardens/Nothing Bu [1943] (MGM Entertainment)

Release date: 1993-07-05
Run time: 139 min.
RRP: ~~£12.99~~
Price: £4.99