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Actors & Directors
  • Chips Rafferty
  • Jack Lemmon
  • John Lund
  • Ricky Nelson
  • Tom Tully
  • Richard Murphy
Release date: 1994-06-06
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Wackiest Ship In The Army [1960] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films - Vol. 1 [1916]
Actors & Directors
  • Harisree Asokan
  • Kalpana (IV)
  • Sindhuja
  • Jagathi Sreekumar
  • Premkumar
  • P.K. Radhakrishnan
Release date: 1994-05-09
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.95

Review Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films - Vol. 1 [1916] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - Unaccustomed As We Are / Berth Marks / Men O'War [1929]
Actors & Directors
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Hal Roach
  • Lewis R. Foster
  • Anne Cornwall
  • Stan Laurel
  • Gloria Greer
  • James Finlayson
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 59 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Laurel And Hardy - Unaccustomed As We Are / Berth Marks / Men O'War [1929] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • Henry McGee
  • Charlie Drake
Release date: 1997-07-21
Run time: 74 min.
Price: £5.99

Review The Worker [1966] / 4 Front Video:


Review Warner Music Vision / The Monkees - Vol. 7 [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Nesmith
  • Mickey Dolenz
  • David Jones
  • Peter Tork
Release date: 1997-08-04
Run time: 76 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Monkees - Vol. 7 [1967] / Warner Music Vision:


Review Artificial Eye / Boudu Saved From Drowning [1932]
Actors & Directors
  • Michel Simon
  • Jean Gehret
  • Max Dalban
  • Marcelle Hainia
  • Jean Renoir
  • Sévérine Lerczinska
Release date: 1994-07-04
Run time: 80 min.
Price: £15.99

Review Boudu Saved From Drowning [1932] / Artificial Eye:


Actors & Directors
  • Phil Silvers
  • Jim Dale
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Peter Butterworth
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Gerald Thomas
Release date: 1999-09-20
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.70

Review Carry on Follow/Camel [1967] / Cinema Club:


Review 4 Front Video / Love Happy [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Harpo Marx
  • Leo McCarey
  • David Miller
  • Marion Hutton
  • Ilona Massey
  • Vera-Ellen
  • Chico Marx
Release date: 1997-01-13
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.70

Review Love Happy [1950] / 4 Front Video:


Review Artsmagic / Oliver Hardy Collection, The - The Sawmill / Yes, Yes Nanette [1921]
Actors & Directors
  • Clarence Hennecke
  • Grant Gorman
  • Jack Gavin
  • Lyle Tayo
  • Stan Laurel
  • James Finlayson
  • Sue O'Neill (II)
Release date: 1999-07-19
Run time: 35 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99

Review Oliver Hardy Collection, The - The Sawmill / Yes, Yes Nanette [1921] / Artsmagic:


Review MGM Entertainment / Marx Bros-Go West/Big Store [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Martin
  • Diana Lewis
  • Edward Buzzell
  • John Carroll
  • The Marx Brothers
  • Charles Reisner
  • Margaret Dumont
Release date: 1993-07-05
Run time: 164 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £24.50

Review Marx Bros-Go West/Big Store [1940] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Delta Visual Entertainment / Pot O' Gold [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • George Marshall
  • James Stewart
  • Horace Heidt
  • Paulette Goddard
  • Mary Gordon
  • Charles Winninger
Release date: 1999-07-19
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £2.75

Review Pot O' Gold [1941] / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Harry Bernard
  • James Parrott
  • Thelma Todd
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Gertrude Sutton
  • Stan Laurel
Run time: 55 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Laurel And Hardy - No. 24 - The Music Box / Another Fine Mess [1930] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Laurel And Hardy - Great Guns [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Sheila Ryan
  • Dick Nelson
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Edmund MacDonald
  • Montague Banks
  • Stan Laurel
Release date: 1989-02-09
Run time: 70 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Laurel And Hardy - Great Guns [1941] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Take The Money And Run [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Woody Allen
  • Jan Merlin
  • Janet Margolin
  • Marcel Hillaire
  • Lonny Chapman
  • Woody Allen
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.94

Review Take The Money And Run [1968] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:

Woody Allen's feature-film debut, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary that combines sight gags, sketchlike scenes, and stand-up jokes at rat-a-tat speed, looks positively primitive compared to his mature work. Primitive, but awfully funny. Allen plays Virgil Starkwell, a music-loving nebbish who turns to a life of crime at an early age and, undaunted by his utter and complete failure to pull off a single successful robbery, continues his unbroken spree of bungled heists and prison breaks even after he marries and raises a family. Narrator Jackson Beck, whose stentorian voice of authority makes a perfect foil for Starkwell's absurd exploits, lobs one droll quip after another with deadpan seriousness. Though spotty, Allen tosses so many jokes into the mix that it hardly matters and when they hit they are often hilarious: the chain gang posing as cousins to their old-woman hostage ("We're very close", Virgil explains to a dim cop), arguing with a dotty movie director who is supposed to be their cover for a bank robbery, Virgil's escape attempt with a bar of soap. Allen spoofs decades of crime films, everything from I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang to Bonnie and Clyde, but you don't have to know the movies to enjoy this goofy, sometimes clumsy, but quite clever comedy. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Actors & Directors
  • Joan Sims
  • Robert Asher
  • Peggy Mount
  • Peter Sellers
  • Shirley Eaton
  • Terry-Thomas
  • Mario Zampi
Release date: 2002-05-27
Run time: 266 min.
Price: £15.99

Review The Terry-Thomas Collection - Make Mine Mink / Too Many Crooks / The Naked Truth [1960] / ITV DVD:


Actors & Directors
  • Joby Baker
  • Dean Jones
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Peter Ustinov
  • Elsa Lanchester
  • Robert Stevenson
Release date: 1992-04-06
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.94

Review Blackbeard's Ghost [1968] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Connoisseur Video / Tati Shorts [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Jacques Tati
  • Jacques Tati
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 53 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Tati Shorts [1936] / Connoisseur Video:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - The Flying Deuces [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Reginald Gardiner
  • Clem Wilenchick
  • Charles Middleton
  • Edward Sutherland
  • Stan Laurel
Release date: 1998-09-07
Run time: 61 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Laurel And Hardy - The Flying Deuces [1939] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Jim Dale
  • Sid James
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Joan Sims
  • Charles Hawtrey
Release date: 1999-09-20
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

Review Carry on Don't Lose/Head [1967] / Cinema Club:


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

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.

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The Wackiest Ship In The Army [1960], Charlie Chaplin - The Mutual Films - Vol. 1 [1916], Laurel And Hardy - Unaccustomed As We Are / Berth Marks / Men O'War [1929], The Worker [1966], The Monkees - Vol. 7 [1967], Boudu Saved From Drowning [1932], Carry on Follow/Camel [1967], Love Happy [1950], Oliver Hardy Collection, The - The Sawmill / Yes, Yes Nanette [1921], Marx Bros-Go West/Big Store [1940], Pot O' Gold [1941], Laurel And Hardy - No. 24 - The Music Box / Another Fine Mess [1930], Laurel And Hardy - Great Guns [1941], Take The Money And Run [1968], The Terry-Thomas Collection - Make Mine Mink / Too Many Crooks / The Naked Truth [1960], Blackbeard's Ghost [1968], Tati Shorts [1936], Laurel And Hardy - The Flying Deuces [1939], Carry on Don't Lose/Head [1967], I'm Alright Jack / Heavens Above [1959 / 1963)

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