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Review Warner Home Video / Blue Murder At St. Trinians [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Terry-Thomas
  • Alastair Sim
  • George Cole
  • Sabrina
  • Frank Launder
  • Joyce Grenfell
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £6.99

Review Blue Murder At St. Trinians [1957] / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Juliet Jordan
  • John Ewart
  • Robin Nedwell
  • Jane Clifton
  • Caz Lederman
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Seven Up [a.k.a. A Slice of Life] (1983) [1964] / Midas Video Ltd.:


Review Warner Home Video / Green Man, The / Will Any Gentleman? [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Heather Thatcher
  • James Hayter
  • Michael Anderson
  • Jon Pertwee
  • Veronica Hurst
  • George Cole
Release date: 1994-02-07
Run time: 156 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.80

Review Green Man, The / Will Any Gentleman? [1956] / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / The Party [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Blake Edwards
  • Peter Sellers
  • Marge Champion
  • Claudine Longet
  • Jean Carson
  • Natalia Borisova
Release date: 1996-06-17
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.17

Review The Party [1968] / MGM Entertainment:

Though this film is a relatively minor one in the massive canon of Peter Sellers, it has moments of absolute hilarity. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, one of Sellers' most fertile collaborators, the film stars Sellers as a would-be actor from India (let them try to get away with that today) who is a walking disaster area. After ruining a day's shooting as an extra on a film, he finds himself unintentionally invited to a big Hollywood party. That's pretty much it as far as plot goes, but Edwards and Sellers know how to milk a simple idea for an unending string of slapstick gags. The result is a film that is episodic and sketchy but also frequently loony in an inspired way. -Marshall Fine.

Review Bfi Video / Club De Femmes [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Raymond Galle
  • Betty Stockfeld
  • Jacques Deval
  • Else Argal
  • Ève Francis
  • Danielle Darrieux
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £29.99

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Review Cinema Club / On The Beat [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Asher
  • Raymond Huntley
  • Norman Wisdom
  • Esma Cannon
  • David Lodge
  • Jennifer Jayne
Release date: 2000-08-14
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.76

Review On The Beat [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 Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - No. 20 - Sailors Beware/Men O'War/Two Tars
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Earles
  • Stan Laurel
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Hal Roach
  • Frank Brownlee
  • Fred Guiol
  • Anita Garvin
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Laurel And Hardy - No. 20 - Sailors Beware/Men O'War/Two Tars / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Sex Kittens Go To College [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Mamie Van Doren
  • Louis Nye
  • Tuesday Weld
  • Albert Zugsmith
  • Mickey Shaughnessy
  • Mijanou Bardot
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £18.95

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Review Arrow Films / Marriage Italian Style [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Vittorio De Sica|Sophia Loren|Marcello Mastroianni
Release date: 1995-11-06
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £19.99

Review Marriage Italian Style [1964] / Arrow Films:


Review 4 Front Video / The Cocoanuts [1929]
Actors & Directors
  • Groucho Marx
  • Harpo Marx
  • Joseph Santley
  • Chico Marx
  • Oscar Shaw
  • Zeppo Marx
  • Robert Florey
Release date: 2001-01-08
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.99

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Review 4 Front Video / The Grass Is Greener [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Moray Watson
  • Cary Grant
  • Jean Simmons
  • Deborah Kerr
  • Stanley Donen
  • Robert Mitchum
Release date: 1997-04-14
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.54

Review The Grass Is Greener [1960] / 4 Front Video:

Cary Grant is the befuddled English Earl in The Grass is Greener, casually puttering around his tourist attraction of a grand old English estate in casual dress while a bull of an American millionaire (Robert Mitchum) crashes into his life and seduces Grant's sophisticated lady (Deborah Kerr). It's pure fantasy, of course, with its cool, cultured lovers swapping witty banter with the same calm they swap gunshots in an old-fashioned duel. Has adultery and jealousy ever been so civilised? Stanley Donen never shakes this very British drawing room comedy of manners free of its talky, stage-bound source or its deliberate snail's pace, but he does manages to bring a lightness that softens the wit with an American lilt. Ultimately, though, it's all about a crack cast in fine form: Mitchum's sleepy-eyed insolence, Kerr's easy elegance, Jean Simmons' flighty outrageousness, and especially the charm and measured grace that is Cary Grant. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review WARNER HOME VIDEO S038368 / The Man In The White Suit / Kind Hearts And Coronets (1951) (1949)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Hamer
  • Alexander Mackendrick
  • Cecil Parker
  • Dennis Price
  • Joan Greenwood
  • Alec Guiness
  • Valerie Hobson
Run time: 184 min.

Review The Man In The White Suit / Kind Hearts And Coronets (1951) (1949) / WARNER HOME VIDEO S038368:

EALING COMEDY CLASSICS Double Bill. Two of the greatest comedies from the Ealing studiosboth starring the great Alec Guiness,(Lawrence Of Arabia, The Ladykillers, Passage To India & Star Wars) In the 'The Man In The White Suit' Alec Guiness plays a young would-be research chemist who invents a fabric which will never soil or wear out. a perfect invention , or at least so he believes. co-starring Joan Greenwood & Cecil Parker, it's a superb satirical comedy. yhhe second film is one Britain's most famous black comedies, 'Kind Hearts And Coronets' is the story of a mass-murderer (Dennis Price)and the 8 members of a rich family who stand in the way of his family fortune. In a remakable tour-de-force, Alec Guiness plays all 8 members of the family. Co-starring, Joan Greenwood & Valerie Hobson, it's a perfect film. One of the true "greats".

Review Warner Home Video / Mister Roberts [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Mervyn LeRoy
  • Jack Lemmon
  • William Powell
  • James Cagney
  • Joshua Logan
  • Henry Fonda
  • John Ford
  • Betsy Palmer
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 MGM Entertainment / It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Stanley Kramer
  • Ethel Merman
  • Sid Caesar
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Milton Berle
  • Buddy Hackett
Release date: 1996-07-29
Run time: 148 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.00

Review It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World [1963] / MGM Entertainment:

Stanley Kramer's 1963 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is a sprawling comedy about a search for buried treasure by at least a dozen people-all played by well-known entertainers of their day-is the kind of mass comedy that has recently come back to the for-front of Hollywood with the film Rat Race. After a number of strangers (including Milton Berle, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers and others) witness a dying stranger (Jimmy Durante) identify the location of hidden money, a conflict-ridden hunt begins, watched over carefully by a suspicious cop (Spencer Tracy). The ensuing two and a half hours of mayhem has its ups and downs-some sketches and performers are certainly funnier than others. But Kramer, who is better known for socially conscious, serious cinema (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?), is in a mood for broad comic characterization, and some of his jokes are so intentionally obvious (Durante literally kicks a bucket when he dies), they could have derived from the Airplane! reject bin. Watch for lots of cameo appearances, including Jerry Lewis. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Cinema Club / Trouble In Store [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Jerry Desmonde
  • John Paddy Carstairs
  • Norman Wisdom
  • Megs Jenkins
  • Margaret Rutherford
  • Moira Lister
Release date: 2000-08-14
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

Review Trouble In Store [1953] / Cinema Club:

Perhaps surprisingly, the British comedy legend Norman Wisdom has made just 20 films, from his debut in Date With a Dream (1948) to the thriller Double-X (1992). From 1948 on he had his own TV series, Wit and Wisdom, but 1953 was the real turning point. Not only was his son Nicholas born, but he became an instant movie star with the release of Trouble in Store. Playing a character called Norman he brought his familiar stage and television personality to the big screen as a young man with the ambition to become a window dresser in a major department store. Ever loveable victim of his own clumsiness, all Norman's efforts to improve himself result in chaos. That is, until he meets Sally (Lana Morris), the girl of his dreams. Then things turn disastrous. Co-starring Margaret Rutherford, Trouble in Store introduced Wisdom's self-penned song which would become his theme, "Don't laugh at Me ('Cause I'm a Fool)". The film became a massive box-office hit and won Wisdom a BAFTA Award. Very much of its time, yet still highly entertaining, this video release provides the opportunity to nostalgically revisit and reassess one of Britain's greatest stars. [+]
Wisdom's follow-up was another substantial hit, One Good Turn (1954). -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review DD Home Entertainment / The Goose Steps Out [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Pettingell
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Will Hay
  • Julien Mitchell
  • Will Hay
  • Peter Ustinov
  • Basil Dearden
Release date: 1999-09-20
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.49

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Review Dd Home Entertainment / Laughter In Paradise [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Alastair Sim
  • Hugh Griffith
  • Guy Middleton
  • Mario Zampi
  • Fay Compton
  • George Cole
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £29.99

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Sabrina Fair [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • John Williams (II)
  • Billy Wilder
  • William Holden
  • Walter Hampden
  • Humphrey Bogart
Release date: 1997-02-03
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.89

Review Sabrina Fair [1954] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Audrey Hepburn is the delightful, young, eponymous Sabrina, the daughter of a chauffeur who is hopelessly in love with David Larrabee (William Holden), the playboy younger son in the rich Long Island household her father works for. In order to help her forget her woes, Sabrina is shipped off to cooking school in Paris. While there, she befriends a baron who provides a bit of culture-and the encouragement to snip off her childlike ponytail. Upon her return to New York, Sabrina is transformed into a sophisticated woman, and David is entranced by her. However, his older brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart) has arranged David's marriage to Elizabeth Tyson in order to seal a business merger and thus must steer David away from Sabrina. To do this, Linus takes on the task of wooing her for himself. Full of great dialogue ("A woman happy in love, she burns the soufflé; a woman unhappy in love, she forgets to turn on the oven") and wonderful performances, this film is a romantic masterpiece. Also enjoyable is the 1995 remake, starring Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford. -Jenny Brown For almost 20 years Audrey Hepburn's pixie-like features lit up Hollywood's silver screens with hit after hit and she became not only a screen icon, but also a style icon (with a little help from Givenchy), and still features high in polls of the world's most beautiful women. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that Paramount have chosen to honour her with a box set of some of her best-known films. [+]
However, this is only "some of", with the absence of her dazzling performances in Roman Holiday and My Fair Lady, leaving three out of the four films included here lacking in comparison. Breakfast at Tiffany's is the strongest and certainly the best-loved Hepburn film in this collection, offering beautifully comic performances by both Hepburn and her leading man, George Peppard. Funny Face also makes a welcome entry, if only for the wonderful performance by Fred Astaire; Hepburn, though, was not a strong enough dancer to hold her own against Astaire's brilliance. Sabrina holds its own as the Cinderella story of a chauffeur's daughter who turns into a beautiful society girl, but it was clearly a quick and easy vehicle for Paramount to produce in the wake of Hepburn's success in Roman Holiday. The mysterious entry of the collection is Paris When It Sizzles, probably one of Hepburn's least-known and most quirky films, with two parallel love stories played out on the screen. Although not an obvious hit and hard work in places it offers an interesting screwball performance by Hepburn, even if the sparks did not fly with her screen partner William Holden. On the DVD: The Audrey Hepburn Collection offers a nice clean widescreen transfer for three of its movies, but Sabrina is a full-frame transfer that lacks something in comparison. All but Breakfast at Tiffany's (which has a 5. 1 Dolby Digital soundtrack) are mono sound transfers, which is only a real disappointment in Funny Face because of George and Ira Gershwin's score. The special features are also lacking, with only a trailer offered on two of the films and a mildly interesting documentary on Sabrina. The best is the featurette on Funny Face, which charts the success of Paramount in the 1950s, but offers nothing a film fan would not have known already. All in all this is an attractive box set, but perhaps one for the die-hard Hepburn fan only. -Nikki Disney.

Review 4 Front Video / The Quiet Man [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Ward Bond
  • Barry Fitzgerald
  • John Ford
  • John Wayne
  • Victor McLaglen
  • Maureen O'Hara
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 124 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.15

Review The Quiet Man [1952] / 4 Front Video:

Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since-it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen-that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. -Robert Horton Blarney and bliss, mixed in equal proportions. [+]
John Wayne plays an American boxer who returns to the Emerald Isle, his native land. What he finds there is a fiery prospective spouse (Maureen O'Hara) and a country greener than any Ireland seen before or since-it's no surprise The Quiet Man won an Oscar for cinematography. It also won an Oscar for John Ford's direction, his fourth such award. The film was a deeply personal project for Ford (whose birth name was Sean Aloysius O'Fearna), and he lavished all of his affection for the Irish landscape and Irish people on this film. He also stages perhaps the greatest donnybrook in the history of movies, an epic fistfight between Wayne and the truculent Victor McLaglen-that's Ford's brother, Francis, as the elderly man on his deathbed who miraculously revives when he hears word of the dustup. Barry Fitzgerald, the original Irish elf, gets the movie's biggest laugh when he walks into the newlyweds' bedroom the morning after their wedding, and spots a broken bed. The look on his face says everything. The Quiet Man isn't the real Ireland, but as a delicious never-never land of Ford's imagination, it will do very nicely. -Robert Horton.

Review Warner Home Video / Pure Hell Of St. Trinian's, The / The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery [1957] [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Launder|Sidney Gilliat|Cecil Parker|Joyce Grenfell
Release date: 1993-09-06
Run time: 180 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Pure Hell Of St. Trinian's, The / The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery [1957] [1966] / Warner Home Video:


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Blue Murder At St. Trinians [1957], Seven Up [a.k.a. A Slice of Life] (1983) [1964], Green Man, The / Will Any Gentleman? [1956], The Party [1968], Club De Femmes [1936], On The Beat [1962], Laurel And Hardy - No. 20 - Sailors Beware/Men O'War/Two Tars, Sex Kittens Go To College [1960], Marriage Italian Style [1964], The Cocoanuts [1929], The Grass Is Greener [1960], The Man In The White Suit / Kind Hearts And Coronets (1951) (1949), Mister Roberts [1955], It's a Mad,Mad,Mad,Mad World [1963], Trouble In Store [1953], The Goose Steps Out [1942], Laughter In Paradise [1951], Sabrina Fair [1954], The Quiet Man [1952], Pure Hell Of St. Trinian's, The / The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery [1957] [1966]

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