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Review Warner Home Video / The Titfield Thunderbolt [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • George Relph
  • Godfrey Tearle
  • Stanley Holloway
  • Naunton Wayne
  • Charles Crichton
  • John Gregson
Release date: 1998-07-06
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.99

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Review ITV DVD / That Riviera Touch [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Cliff Owen
  • Eric Morecambe
  • Suzanne Lloyd
  • Ernie Wise
  • Paul Stassino
  • Armand Mestral
Release date: 2002-05-20
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.50

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Review Orbit Media Ltd. / The Cat And The Canary [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Gale Sondergaard
  • John Beal
  • Bob Hope
  • Paulette Goddard
  • Elliott Nugent
  • Douglass Montgomery
Release date: 2004-03-01
Run time: 72 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review Cinema Club / The Early Bird [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Asher
  • Paddie O'Neil
  • Bryan Pringle
  • Edward Chapman
  • Norman Wisdom
  • Jerry Desmonde
Release date: 2000-08-14
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.81

Review The Early Bird [1965] / Cinema Club:

The Early Bird reteams Norman Wisdom as "Pitkin" with Edward Chapman's "Mr Grimsdale" for a third and final catalogue of chaos. It also proved the last of seven films Jack Davies wrote for Wisdom, with Wisdom officially sharing the screenplay credit for the first time. However, apart from the introduction of colour, it is business as usual as Norman is the milkman of mayhem attempting to prevent the take-over of Grimsdale's Dairy by a larger, more modern rival. It is the same basic plot that has served from Wisdom's own One Good Turn (1954) to You've Got Mail (1998), and it works well, even allowing Norman to dress-up as a fireman and have fun with his hose. "Mr Grimsdale, did you know that I'm a national hero in Albania?" "Norman, what are you on about?" Odd as it seems, all through the hardest of the hard-line communist years in Albania Norman Wisdom's films were virtually the only movies from the decadent West allowed into the country. Perhaps it's the appeal of the resilient underdog ever battling against the establishment, but even today Sir Norman Wisdom really is one of the national heroes of Albania. A strange-but-true fact perhaps even more unbelievable than any of Norman's classic movies. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Dd Home Entertainment / Rattle Of A Simple Man [1964]
Actors & Directors
  • Muriel Box
  • Charles Dyer
  • Diane Cilento
  • Thora Hird
  • Harry H. Corbett
  • Michael Medwin
Release date: 2003-04-21
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.89

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

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Review ITV DVD / The Plank [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Sykes
  • Jim Dale
  • Eric Sykes
  • Tommy Cooper
  • Stratford Johns
  • Graham Stark
Release date: 1992-06-01
Run time: 46 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.79

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Review 4 Front Video / A Girl In Every Port [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Chester Erskine|Groucho Marx|Marie Wilson|William Bendix
Release date: 1999-01-18
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review Warner Home Video / I'm Alright Jack [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Carmichael
  • Terry-Thomas
  • Peter Sellers
  • John Boulting
  • Dennis Price
  • Richard Attenborough
Release date: 1998-07-06
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.95

Review I'm Alright Jack [1959] / Warner Home Video:

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. [+]
Dalkin The 1959 I'm All Right Jack set Peter Sellers on the road to international stardom after his decade on radio in The Goons. As later in Dr Strangelove, Sellers here plays multiple roles-both Sir John Kennaway and, unforgettably, the bolshie trades-union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud comedy with a satirical edge, lampooning the then burning issue of industrial relations. Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a missile contract, a scheme that 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. It's a sequel to the 1956 Private's Progress but 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) and Carlton-Browne of the FO (1959). The superb cast of I'm All Right Jack also features Richard Attenborough, John Le Mesurier, Margaret Rutherford and Terry Thomas. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Cinema Club / Carry On Up The Khyber [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Sid James
  • Roy Castle
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Joan Sims
Release date: 1995-04-03
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £8.10

Review Carry On Up The Khyber [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.

Review Warner Home Video / Marx Brothers - A Day At The Races [1937]
Actors & Directors
  • Groucho Marx
  • Sam Wood
  • Allan Jones
  • Maureen O'Sullivan
  • Harpo Marx
  • Chico Marx
Release date: 2000-06-05
Run time: 109 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.55

Review Marx Brothers - A Day At The Races [1937] / Warner Home Video:

A Day at the Races is the Marx Brothers at their commercial and popular peak, working with a top Hollywood director (Sam Wood of The Pride of the Yankees), supported with a healthy screen budget paying for such extras as a blue-tinted ballet sequence, love songs from crooner Allan Jones and decorative sets. But the brothers are also at the top of their game in terms of their own comic material and timing. The story finds Groucho, Chico and Harpo helping out at a sanatorium, where their longtime foil in the movies, Margaret Dumont, is the leading patient. The film has some of the trio's funniest and most memorable bits and a dazzling horserace at the climax. Not quite as good as its predecessor, A Night at the Opera, this is still a highlight in the Marxian filmography. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - A Chump At Oxford [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Forbes Murray
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Stan Laurel
  • Wilfred Lucas
  • Frank Baker
  • Alfred J. Goulding
Release date: 1999-10-18
Run time: 61 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.95

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Review 4 Front Video / Marx Brothers - Room Service [1938]
Actors & Directors
  • Groucho Marx
  • William A. Seiter
  • Ann Miller
  • Harpo Marx
  • Chico Marx
  • Lucille Ball
Release date: 1999-01-18
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.00

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Review 4 Front Video / Dr. Strangelove [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Sterling Hayden
  • George C. Scott
  • Peter Sellers
  • Keenan Wynn
  • Slim Pickens
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.92

Review Dr. Strangelove [1963] / 4 Front Video:

Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made, Stanley Kubrick's cold war classic is the ultimate satire of the nuclear age. Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, to give it its full title, is a perfect spoof of political and military insanity, beginning when General Jack D Ripper (Sterling Hayden), a maniacal warrior obsessed with "the purity of precious bodily fluids", mounts his singular campaign against Communism by ordering a squadron of B-52 bombers to attack the Soviet Union. The Soviets counter the threat with a so-called "Doomsday Device," and the world hangs in the balance while the US president (Peter Sellers) engages in hilarious hot-line negotiations with his Soviet counterpart. Sellers also plays a British military attaché and the mad scientist Dr Strangelove; George C Scott is outrageously frantic as General Buck Turgidson, whose presidential advice consists mainly of panic and statistics about "acceptable losses". With dialogue ("You can't fight here! This is the war room!") and images (Slim Pickens's character riding the bomb to oblivion) that have become a part of our cultural vocabulary, Kubrick's film regularly appears on critics' lists of the all-time best. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review ITV DVD / The Magnificent Two [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Cecil Parker
  • Virgilio Teixeira
  • Eric Morecambe
  • Ernie Wise
  • Margit Saad
  • Cliff Owen
Release date: 2002-05-20
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.44

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Review Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd / The Ghost Goes West [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Parker
  • Eugene Pallette
  • René Clair
  • Robert Donat
  • Ralph Bunker
  • Elsa Lanchester
Release date: 1996-10-14
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.99

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Review 4 Front Video / Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers Comedy) [1932]
Actors & Directors
  • Zeppo Marx
  • Chico Marx
  • Norman Z. McLeod
  • Harpo Marx
  • Thelma Todd
  • Groucho Marx
Release date: 2001-01-08
Run time: 63 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.25

Review Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers Comedy) [1932] / 4 Front Video:

Imagine Groucho as the president of a college and Harpo and Chico as football players. It doesn't get much wackier than this. Horse feathers, indeed. Groucho is hilarious to watch as a hip professor. He's at his most rebellious singing "Whatever it is, I'm against it". Thelma Todd does some of her best vamping to help fix the big football game, which Harpo and Chico are supposed to throw. Naturally, the brothers have other ideas. For sheer laughter, this has to rate almost as high as Duck Soup, with the memorable speakeasy sequence, and the funniest football finale of all time, complete with banana peels and a chariot. -Bill Desowitz.

Review 4 Front Video / Every Girl Should Be Married [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Betsy Drake
  • Don Hartman
  • Franchot Tone
  • Diana Lynn
  • Alan Mowbray
  • Cary Grant
Release date: 1998-01-12
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £5.99

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Review Delta Visual Entertainment / Her Bridal Night (1956)
Actors & Directors
  • Brigitte Bardot
  • Marcel Amont
  • Marcelle Arnold
  • Louis Jourdan
  • Micheline Presle
  • Pierre Gaspard-Huit
Release date: 1999-07-19
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.95

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Review Warner Music Vision / The Monkees - Vol. 1 [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Nesmith
  • David Jones
  • Peter Tork
  • Mickey Dolenz
Release date: 1999-02-22
Run time: 77 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Monkees - Vol. 1 [1966] / Warner Music Vision:


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The Titfield Thunderbolt [1953], That Riviera Touch [1966], The Cat And The Canary [1939], The Early Bird [1965], Rattle Of A Simple Man [1964], The Virgin Soldiers [1969], The Plank [1967], A Girl In Every Port [1951], I'm Alright Jack [1959], Carry On Up The Khyber [1968], Marx Brothers - A Day At The Races [1937], Laurel And Hardy - A Chump At Oxford [1940], Marx Brothers - Room Service [1938], Dr. Strangelove [1963], The Magnificent Two [1967], The Ghost Goes West [1935], Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers Comedy) [1932], Every Girl Should Be Married [1948], Her Bridal Night (1956), The Monkees - Vol. 1 [1966]

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