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Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - Pardon Us - Restored Version [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Stan Laurel
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Wilfred Lucas
  • James Parrott
  • Walter Long
  • June Marlow
Release date: 1997-07-14
Run time: 68 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.94

Review Laurel And Hardy - Pardon Us - Restored Version [1931] / Vision Video Ltd.:


Review MGM Entertainment / Night at Opera/Day at Races [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Allan Jones
  • Maureen O'Sullivan
  • Sam Wood
  • Kitty Carlisle
  • The Marx Brothers
Release date: 1992-06-29
Run time: 192 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.48

Review Night at Opera/Day at Races [1935] / MGM Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Operation Petticoat [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Dina Merrill
  • Gene Evans
  • Tony Curtis
  • Cary Grant
  • Blake Edwards
  • Joan O'Brien
Release date: 1997-04-14
Run time: 115 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.32

Review Operation Petticoat [1959] / 4 Front Video:

Blake Edwards's delightful 1959 comedy, Operation Petticoat, stars Cary Grant as a World War II submarine captain whose preference for by-the-book command reluctantly yields to certain realities. Chief among those is that Grant's first officer (Tony Curtis, who impersonated Grant that same year in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot), a shameless hustler, is better than the Navy at delivering whatever supplies the ship and crew need to keep going. But when Curtis sneaks a handful of Philippine refugees and several gorgeous nurses onto the all-male sub, the skipper not only has to cool down his crew but deal with an unexpected feminine influence on ship protocol. The film is a great deal of fun, sprinkled with the director's trademark sight gags (including one of Edwards' best, involving a torpedo and a jeep), and graced with his unmistakable lilt. Grant is in great form, his comic brilliance almost impossibly effortless. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review 4 Front Video / Abbott And Costello - Lost In Alaska [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Lou Costello
  • Bud Abbott
  • Jean Yarbrough
  • Tom Ewell
  • Mitzi Green
  • Bruce Cabot
Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.78

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Review Connoisseur Video / The Kid Brother [1927]
Actors & Directors
  • J.A. Howe
  • Leo Willis
  • Olin Francis
  • Ted Wilde
  • Harold Lloyd
  • Jobyna Ralston
Release date: 1996-09-30
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £12.99

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Review Rank DD20903 / Rockets Galore [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Gordon Jackson
  • Donald Sinden
  • Ronnie Corbett
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Rockets Galore [1953] / Rank DD20903:

The sequel to 'Whisky Galore' sees the islanders of Todday once more at odds with the authorities from the mainland.

Review 4 Front Video / It Happened One Night [1934]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Capra
  • Jameson Thomas
  • Roscoe Karns
  • Walter Connolly
  • Clark Gable
  • Claudette Colbert
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review It Happened One Night [1934] / 4 Front Video:

Director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) took home every Oscar in the book (well, okay, all the major ones) for this seminal 1934 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten reporter who stays close to a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) so not to lose a good story. Funny and sexy, the film is full of memorable scenes often referred to in other films, such as the "Wall of Jericho" (a mere bedcover hung on a clothesline down the middle of the room), and Colbert's famous flash of thigh to stop a speeding car in its tracks. Capra's brisk, urbane brand of wit was a perfect complement to his populist faith in the common man (in this case, Gable's character), and this inspiration makes this film a spirited entertainment and an uplifting experience. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Cinema Club / The Early Bird [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Asher
  • Norman Wisdom
  • Bryan Pringle
  • Paddie O'Neil
  • Jerry Desmonde
  • Edward Chapman
Release date: 2000-08-14
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.77

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 4 Front Video / Bachelor Mother [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Garson Kanin|Ginger Rogers|David Niven|Charles Coburn
Release date: 1999-01-18
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99

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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.
Price: £15.99

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Review Warner Home Video / Father Of The Bride [1950]
Actors & Directors
  • Vincente Minnelli
  • Joan Bennett
  • Don Taylor
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Billie Burke
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.90

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Review 4 Front Video / The Producers [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Dick Shawn
  • Gene Wilder
  • Renee Taylor
  • Mel Brooks
  • Zero Mostel
  • Kenneth Mars
Release date: 2001-04-16
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.98

Review The Producers [1967] / 4 Front Video:

Mel Brooks' directorial debut remains both a career high point and a classic show-business farce. Hinging on a crafty plot premise, which in turn unleashes a joyously insane onstage spoof, The Producers is powered by a clutch of over-the-top performances, capped by the odd couple pairing of the late Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, making his screen debut. Mostel is Max Bialystock, a gone-to-seed Broadway producer who spends his days wheedling cheques from his "investors", elderly women for whom Bialystock is only too willing to provide company. When wide-eyed auditor Leo Bloom (Wilder) comes to check the books, he unwittingly inspires the wild-eyed Max to hatch a sure-fire plan: sell 25,000 per cent of his next show, produce a deliberate flop, then abscond with the proceeds. Unfortunately for the producers (but fortunately for us), their candidate for failure is Springtime for Hitler, a Brooksian conceit that envisions what Goebbels might have accomplished with a little help from Busby Berkeley. Truly startling during its original 1968 release, The Producers does show signs of age in some peripheral scenes that make merry at the expense of gays and women. But the show's nifty cast (notably including the late Dick Shawn as LSD, the space cadet that snags the musical's title role, and Kenneth Mars as the helmeted playwright) clicks throughout, and the sight of Mostel fleecing his marks is irresistibly funny. Add Wilder's literally hysterical Bloom, and it's easy to understand the film's exalted status among late-60s comedies. -Sam Sutherland, Amazon. com.

Review Dd Home Entertainment / Come On George [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Cyril Raymond
  • Patricia Kirkwood
  • Anthony Kimmins
  • Joss Ambler
  • Meriel Forbes
  • George Formby
Release date: 2000-09-25
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.45

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Review Vision Video Ltd. / Laurel And Hardy - One Good Turn / Early To Bed / On The Loose [1931]
Actors & Directors
  • Claud Allister
  • John Loder
  • Billy Gilbert
  • Zasu Pitts
  • Thelma Todd
  • Hal Roach
Release date: 1999-10-18
Run time: 59 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review Dd Home Entertainment / No Limit [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Hobbs
  • George Formby
  • Edward Rigby
  • Florence Desmond
  • Montague Banks
Release date: 1999-09-06
Run time: 77 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.69

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Review Electric Pictures / Zazie Dans Le Metro [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Carla Marlier
  • Catherine Demongeot
  • Philippe Noiret
  • Louis Malle
  • Hubert Deschamps
Release date: 1994-06-07
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £15.99

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Review Warner Home Video / Private's Progress / School For Scoundrels [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Hamer|Ian Carmichael|Terry-Thomas|Alastair Sim
Release date: 1995-05-29
Run time: 186 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Private's Progress / School For Scoundrels [1956] / Warner Home Video:

England's comic filmmaking duo the Boulting Brothers had several international hits in the 1950s, including such satires of British institutions as I'm All Right Jack (which skewered business and labour),Lucky Jim (higher education) and the 1956 Private's Progress, which took on the military. Boulting favourite Ian Carmichael is wonderful as Stanley Windrush, a university student who interrupts his education for the purely patriotic reason of serving his country as an army officer-and quickly flunks out of training school. Demoted to private, the refined Stanley soon discovers that a soldier's life means keeping company with some rough trade, including a particularly unpolished bloke played by Richard Attenborough. Terry-Thomas is delightful as Major Hitchcock and Dennis Price is very good as Stanley's ever-confounded commanding officer, Tracepurcel. The script eventually veers into a plot about a secret mission to reclaim art treasures confiscated by the Nazis but the film never loses its parodying edge. -Tom Keogh.

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

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


Review ITV DVD / The Wrong Arm Of The Law [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Lionel Jeffries
  • Davy Kaye
  • Peter Sellers
  • Bernard Cribbins
  • Nanette Newman
  • Cliff Owen
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.99

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Review 4 Front Video / The Magic Christian [1970] [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Laurence Harvey
  • Yul Brynner
  • Ringo Starr
  • Peter Sellers
  • Joseph McGrath
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

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Laurel And Hardy - Pardon Us - Restored Version [1931], Night at Opera/Day at Races [1935], Operation Petticoat [1959], Abbott And Costello - Lost In Alaska [1952], The Kid Brother [1927], Rockets Galore [1953], It Happened One Night [1934], The Early Bird [1965], Bachelor Mother [1939], Marriage Italian Style [1964], Father Of The Bride [1950], The Producers [1967], Come On George [1939], Laurel And Hardy - One Good Turn / Early To Bed / On The Loose [1931], No Limit [1935], Zazie Dans Le Metro [1959], Private's Progress / School For Scoundrels [1956], Green Man, The / Will Any Gentleman? [1956], The Wrong Arm Of The Law [1962], The Magic Christian [1970] [1969]

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