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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Passport To Pimlico [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Dupuis
  • Stanley Holloway
  • Sidney Tafler
  • Henry Cornelius
  • Basil Radford
  • Hermione Baddeley
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.99

Review Passport To Pimlico [1949] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Till Death Us Do Part [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Maynard
  • Anthony Booth
  • Warren Mitchell
  • Norman Cohen
  • Dandy Nichols
  • Una Stubbs
Release date: 2006-10-30
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.26

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Review Pinnacle Vision / At Last The 1948 Show
Actors & Directors
  • Tim Brooke-Taylor
  • Aimi MacDonald
  • Ian Fordyce
  • Graham Chapman
  • Marty Feldman
  • John Cleese
Release date: 2005-07-25
Run time: 172 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £2.98

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / School For Scoundrels [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Alastair Sim
  • Terry-Thomas
  • Dennis Price
  • Cyril Frankel
  • Ian Carmichael
  • Robert Hamer
  • Hal E. Chester
  • Janette Scott
Release date: 2006-10-30
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.47

Review School For Scoundrels [1960] / Optimum Home Entertainment:

In School for Scoundrels wimpy Ian Carmichael wants to impress girls and get one over on all-round show-off and cad Terry Thomas (playing gloriously to type). Discovering Alastair Simms' unorthodox school Carmichael happily enrols and learns the quaint tricks of the day for securing the admiration of a fair lady. Ultimately as a star pupil he teaches the Master a thing or two about true love when everything turns out just fine in the end. Appealing to all male sensibilities is the idea of a magical set of simple rules for winning someone's affections. Set in the tweed-rich environment of an English boarding school makes this an even quainter notion. To watch this classic comedy is to cock one's snoot at womanisers everywhere while unavoidably making a mental list of anything that might actually work! The three central performances are brilliantly realised, particularly the role reversal between Carmichael and Thomas. Try playing a tennis match after a viewing without calling "hard cheese". -Paul Tonks.

Review MGM Entertainment / It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Ethel Merman
  • Stanley Kramer
  • Spencer Tracy
  • Milton Berle
  • Sid Caesar
  • Buddy Hackett
Release date: 2002-03-11
Run time: 148 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.84

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 Optimum Home Entertainment / Alastair Sim - The Comic Icons Collection [1951]
Actors & Directors
  • Alastair Sim
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 447 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £10.71

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Titfield Thunderbolt [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Naunton Wayne
  • Charles Crichton
  • Stanley Holloway
  • John Gregson
  • George Relph
  • Hugh Griffith
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.43

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / How To Steal A Million [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Eli Wallach
  • William Wyler
  • Hugh Griffith
  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Charles Boyer
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 118 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.24

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Review Bfi Video / Mon Oncle [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Jacques Tati
  • Jacques Tati
Release date: 2004-11-29
Run time: 111 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.44

Review Mon Oncle [1958] / Bfi Video:

A comic masterpiece from director-star Jacques Tati (Playtime, Traffic), this 1958 film-Tati's first in colour-reprises the carefree, oblivious title character from the director's hilarious international hit Mr. Hulot's Holiday. This time, the story finds Hulot, a self-involved twit on a constant collision with the physical world, grappling with 1950s-style progress. Visiting his sister and brother-in-law in their ultra-progressive household full of noisy gadgets and futuristic decor, Hulot inevitably has dust-ups with modernity, each one exceptionally funny. Taking a page from Buster Keaton's play book, Tati also employs his trademark techniques with sound and production design to achieve the indefinable, comic genius of his films: the rhythmic clacking of footsteps, the cartoon-panel distance of his camera frame from the heart of the action. (Why are funny things funnierwhen seen from a few extra feet away?) Tati is one of the cinema's great treasures, and Mon Oncle is unforgettable. -Tom Keogh.

Review MGM Entertainment / The Bishop's Wife [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • David Niven
  • James Gleason
  • Cary Grant
  • Monty Woolley
  • Loretta Young
  • Henry Koster
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.69

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Review Starz Home Entertainment / What A Carve Up [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Kenneth Connor
  • Dennis Price
  • Sid James
  • Shirley Eaton
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Pat Jackson
Release date: 2008-08-11
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.89

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Billy Liar [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Mona Washbourne
  • Wilfred Pickles
  • Julie Christie
  • Finlay Currie
  • John Schlesinger
  • Tom Courtenay
Release date: 2006-09-11
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.95

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Review Bfi Video / Jour De Fete [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Jacques Tati
  • Jacques Tati
  • Paul Frankeur
  • Guy Decomble
Release date: 2004-11-29
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.78

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Review ITV DVD / Carry On Up The Khyber [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Sid James
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Joan Sims
  • Roy Castle
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Kenneth Williams
Release date: 2003-05-12
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.60

Review Carry On Up The Khyber [1968] / ITV DVD:

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 / The Philadelphia Story [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Katharine Hepburn
  • James Stewart
  • George Cukor
  • Cary Grant
Release date: 2005-06-20
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.96

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Morecambe & Wise : Surviving Footage From BBC Series 1 & Complete Series 2 [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Morecambe
  • Ernie Wise
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 213 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.73

Review Morecambe & Wise : Surviving Footage From BBC Series 1 & Complete Series 2 [1968] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Odd Couple [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Saks
  • John Fiedler
  • Larry Haines
  • Herb Edelman
  • Jack Lemmon
  • Walter Matthau
Release date: 2002-09-02
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.48

Review Odd Couple [1967] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Neil Simon's classic stage comedy made an effortless transition to the big screen in 1967, when The Odd Couple provided Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau with a tailor-made mid-career affirmation of their status as two of cinema's greatest funny men. Lemmon is Felix, manically obsessed with cleanliness and housekeeping, struggling to understand why his wife wants a divorce. Matthau is Oscar, his slovenly poker-playing buddy who invites him to take the spare room and lives to regret it as they rapidly and comically come to grief like an old, totally incompatible, married couple, revealing exactly why their respective wives have had enough. "I don't think two single men living alone in a big eight-room apartment should have a cleaner house than my mother", Matthau wails, trying to make sense of the disintegrating situation. The pair devour Simon's typically sharp and witty script in a frenzy of classic one-liners that allow Lemmon's trademark twitchy neurosis and Matthau's baleful cussedness to flourish. Great as they are, though, they are nearly eclipsed in the funniest scene of the film by Monica Evans and Carole Shelly as a couple of British expatriate sisters from the apartment upstairs. Carry On innuendo briefly meets Manhattan repartee and the screen crackles with brilliance. It's a comic masterclass. On the DVD: The Odd Couple on disc has no extras apart from the original cinema trailer, but the film, presented in 2. 35:1 anamorphic widescreen, with Dolby Digital 5. [+]
1 Surround, is pristine, Neal Hefti's score providing that instantly identifiable flavour of sophisticated 1960s American comedy. -Piers Ford.

Review Showbox Home Entertainment / Comedy Classics - Miss Robin Hood [1952]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Hearne
  • John Guillermin
  • James Robertson Justice
  • Margaret Rutherford
  • Dora Bryan
  • Michael Medwin
Release date: 2007-04-02
Run time: 76 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.87

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Ladykillers [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • Alec Guinness
  • Alexander MacKendrick
  • Herbert Lom
  • Cecil Parker
  • Katie Johnston
  • Peter Sellers
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.57

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Carry On Cleo [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Joan Sims
  • Kenneth Connor
  • Sid James
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Jim Dale
Release date: 2007-01-29
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.48

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Models & Brands:
Passport To Pimlico [1949], Till Death Us Do Part [1969], At Last The 1948 Show, School For Scoundrels [1960], It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World [1963], Alastair Sim - The Comic Icons Collection [1951], The Titfield Thunderbolt [1952], How To Steal A Million [1966], Mon Oncle [1958], The Bishop's Wife [1947], What A Carve Up [1961], Billy Liar [1963], Jour De Fete [1949], Carry On Up The Khyber [1968], The Philadelphia Story [1940], Morecambe & Wise : Surviving Footage From BBC Series 1 & Complete Series 2 [1968], Odd Couple [1967], Comedy Classics - Miss Robin Hood [1952], The Ladykillers [1955], Carry On Cleo [1965]

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