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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Pillow Talk [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Rock Hudson
  • Tony Randall
  • Thelma Ritter
  • Doris Day
  • Nick Adams
  • Michael Gordon
Release date: 1996-03-11
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.25

Review Pillow Talk [1959] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Jan Morrow (Doris Day) and Brad Allen (Rock Hudson) have never met, but they are sworn enemies because of one small appliance in their lives: the telephone. The two share a party line, and Jan is outraged over the amount of time Bill spends wooing women over the phone. A convenient triangle emerges when a client (Tony Randall) of Jan's-she's an interior decorator-falls in love with her and happens to be Brad's old college chum. When Brad makes the connection, he decides to try to court Jan himself, to make her more sympathetic to his phone woes. Of course, she'd never go for such a heel, so he passes himself off as Rex Stetson, a Texas rancher visiting New York. The ensuing tale, albeit predictable, is lots of fun, with some quick-witted dialogue and some clever use of split-screens for the phone calls. Thelma Ritter is hilarious as Jan's always-hung-over maid, Alma; and the pairing of Rock and Doris works beautifully, as always. -Jenny Brown.

Review Eureka Entertainment / The General [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • Marion Mack
  • Buster Keaton
  • Buster Keaton
  • Glen Cavander
Release date: 1998-04-27
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.94

Review The General [1926] / Eureka Entertainment:

Buster Keaton's career reached its creative apex with this rousing comic adventure. Not merely one of the finest silent films, this remains one of the great film comedies of all time. The Great Stone Face stars as Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray, a man with only two loves: the sweet Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack) and his trustworthy engine, the eponymous General. When Fort Sumner is fired upon he is one of the first to enlist, but when the war office rejects him (he's too valuable as a trained engineer) his sweetie rejects him as a coward. Johnny has the opportunity to prove his bravery when Yankee spies steal his engine and inadvertently kidnap Annabelle, and Johnny pursues with all the resources at his disposal: handcar, bicycle and finally railroad engine. Keaton's love/hate relationship with technology and machinery shines as he becomes one with his beloved locomotive and wrestles with a finicky cannon that threatens to blow his engine off the tracks; with tremendous dexterity, he nails the humour with inimitably deadpan takes. Spunky Marion Mack makes a perfect partner for Keaton, not merely a foil but a gifted comedienne in her own right. Other Keaton films contain more laughs and inspired comic stunts, but none combines romance, adventure and comedy into a solid story as seamlessly as this silent masterpiece. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Actors & Directors
  • William K. Howard
  • Carole Lombard
  • Fred MacMurray
Run time: 77 min.

Review Princess Comes Across (1936):

Wonderful mystery/comedy set aboard a luxury cruise ship bound for Britain from New York. A mysterious master criminal murders the only person aboard who can identify him. When suspicion falls on an actress pretending to be a countess, the resident band leader swings into action to capture the culprit. Great acting from a comedienne whose life was cut tragically short by a plane crash.

Review Whe Europe Limited / Beat The Devil [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Morley
  • Gina Lollobrigida
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Peter Lorre
  • Jennifer Jones
  • John Huston
Release date: 2003-12-08
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £4.99

Review Beat The Devil [1953] / Whe Europe Limited:


Actors & Directors
  • William Powell
  • Jean Harlow
  • Myrna Loy
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Jack Conway
Run time: 99 min.

Review Libeled Lady (1936):

A screwbakk comedy aimed at the arrogant tycoons, ditzy debs, playboy louts and unctous butlers of the depression era. A terrific piece of 30s cinema with a great cast and skilled direction. This piece will never date and shouyld be in the collection of any film buff.

Actors & Directors
  • Olivia De Havilland
  • Elliot Nugent
  • Henry Fonda
  • Joan Leslie
Run time: 101 min.

Review The Male Animal (1942):

A wonderful comedy about a mild-mannered college professor who has his whole world turned topsy-turvy by an ill considered campus editorial and the return of his wife's football-hero ex-bow. Great acting, lively script and fine direction keep you engrossed throughout its entirety.

Actors & Directors
  • Stan Laurel
  • Oliver Hardy
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Laurel And Hardy - No. 10 - Compilation 4 [1927] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Platinum Blonde [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Capra|Loretta Young|Robert Williams|Jean Harlow
Release date: 1999-01-05
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £4.99

Review Platinum Blonde [1931] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Roman Scandals [1933]
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Cantor
  • director
  • actor
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £8.99

Review Roman Scandals [1933] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Eureka Entertainment / The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • Harold Lloyd
  • Jimmy Conlin
  • Rudy Vallee
  • Edgar Kennedy
  • Raymond Walburn
  • Preston Sturges
Release date: 2000-09-16
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.99

Review The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock [1947] / Eureka Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • James Neilson
  • Edmond O'Brien
  • Brian Keith
  • Tommy Kirk
  • Tom Tryon
Run time: 98 min.

Review MOON PILOT (1962) - Tom Tryon/Brian Keith / Walt Disney 262:

An Air Force captain inadvertently volunteers to make the first manned flight around the moon. He immediately falls under the watchful protection of various security agencies, but despite all their precautions, a young woman who may be an enemy spy succeeds in making contact with the captain. The captain eventually discovers that this woman is not an enemy but rather a friend from a very unusual source.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Charlie Chaplin - The Kid / The Idle Class [1921]
Actors & Directors
  • Jackie Coogan
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Edna Purviance
Release date: 1992-10-12
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.99

Review Charlie Chaplin - The Kid / The Idle Class [1921] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Cinema Club / On The Beat / Stitch In Time [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Asher
  • Jennifer Jayne
  • Esma Cannon
  • Raymond Huntley
  • Norman Wisdom
  • David Lodge
Release date: 1999-01-03
Run time: 190 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £12.95

Review On The Beat / Stitch In Time [1962] / Cinema Club:

Having proved himself a war hero in The Square Peg (1958), Norman Pitkin, Norman Wisdom's most famous incarnation of his riotous buffoon character, is here demobbed and, as usual for a Wisdom movie, dreaming of something better. Norman wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a policeman, but being decidedly on the short side, has to settle for washing police cars. Of course it's not long before Norman is impersonating an officer of the law. As in The Square Peg, Wisdom also plays his nemesis here, the German General Schreiber, as well as the chief suspect in a series of jewel robberies which only Pitkin's chaotic antics can solve. In fact, as if emphasising that On the Beat really is The Square Peg with different uniforms, Terence Alexander, who later found fame as Charlie Hungerford in the long running BBC series Bergerac, also returns, albeit playing a different character. Wisdom film-regular David Lodge, previously seen co-starring in The Bulldog Breed (1960) is also on hand, though otherwise the supporting cast is less stellar than before. Solid if very predictable feel-good entertainment, Wisdom's particular brand of charming anarchy proves again his box-office formula could withstand endless variations. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review / Bedazzled (1967)
Actors & Directors
  • Dudley Moore
  • Raquel Welch
  • Peter Cook
  • Stanley Donen
Run time: 101 min.

Review Bedazzled (1967):

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore struggle to keep up the momentum in this the original version of this demonic comedy. Very good pieces are let down by the manu flat bits but still a film worth seeing as an example of those long-gone days.

Actors & Directors
  • Jean Harlow
  • Franchote Tone
  • Victor Fleming
Run time: 96 min.

Review Bombshell (1933):

Considered by many to be the leading lady's funniest comedy! A terrific send-up of the movie business with top notch cast and masterful director. A screen siren tires of her Hollywood lifestyle and sets her mind to starting another life as a happy housewife and mother.

Actors & Directors
  • Fredric March
  • Walter Connolly
  • Charles Winninger
  • Sig Ruman
  • Carole Lombard
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £16.95

Review Nothing Sacred (1937) / SECOND SIGHT 2ND1001:

Classic '30's screwball comedy. Often regarded as one of the finest screwball comedies ever made, it's as funny today as it was 70-odd years. The great Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey, To Be Or Not To Be) stars with Fredric March (A Star is Born) & Charles Winninger in this biting satire of the press which was scripted by the legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht.

Actors & Directors
  • James Finlayson
  • Charles Middleton
  • George Marshall
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Stan Laurel
  • George Marshall
  • Raymond McCarey
Run time: 65 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Laurel And Hardy - No. 61 - Pack Up Your Troubles (Colourised) [1932] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review 4 Front Video / Abbott And Costello Meet Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Boris Karloff
  • Lou Costello
  • Helen Westcott
  • Bud Abbott
  • Craig Stevens
  • Charles Lamont
Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.39

Review Abbott And Costello Meet Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde [1953] / 4 Front Video:


Review Academy Video / The Pleasure Garden [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Hilary Mackendrick
  • John Heawood
  • James Broughton
  • John Le Mesurier
  • Mary Lee Settle
  • Kermit Sheets
Release date: 1998-01-19
Run time: 36 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £35.00

Review The Pleasure Garden [1952] / Academy Video:


Review Orbit Media Ltd. / At War With The Army [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Kellin
  • Dick Stabile
  • Jimmie Dundee
  • Hal Walker
  • Dean Martin
  • Jerry Lewis
Release date: 1996-11-11
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.95

Review At War With The Army [1951] / Orbit Media Ltd.:


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Pillow Talk [1959], The General [1926], Princess Comes Across (1936), Beat The Devil [1953], Libeled Lady (1936), The Male Animal (1942), Laurel And Hardy - No. 10 - Compilation 4 [1927], Platinum Blonde [1931], Roman Scandals [1933], The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock [1947], MOON PILOT (1962) - Tom Tryon/Brian Keith, Charlie Chaplin - The Kid / The Idle Class [1921], On The Beat / Stitch In Time [1962], Bedazzled (1967), Bombshell (1933), Nothing Sacred (1937), Laurel And Hardy - No. 61 - Pack Up Your Troubles (Colourised) [1932], Abbott And Costello Meet Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde [1953], The Pleasure Garden [1952], At War With The Army [1951]

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