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Review 2 Entertain Video / Dad's Army - Is There Honey Still For Tea? [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • John Le Mesurier
  • Clive Dunn
  • John Laurie
  • Arnold Ridley
  • Arthur Lowe
Release date: 1999-02-01
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Jimmy Perry
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.90

Review Dad's Army - Is There Honey Still For Tea? [1968] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Westlake Entertainment Group / The Littlest Angel [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lu Leonard
  • Walter C. Miller
  • Joe Layton
  • Fred Gwynne
  • Mary Jo Catlett
  • Heino Ripp
  • James Coco
  • Stan Zabka
  • Cab Calloway
Release date: 2004-10-05
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £16.43

Review The Littlest Angel [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Westlake Entertainment Group:


Actors & Directors
  • Constance Cummings
  • Clifford Evans
  • Charles Frend
  • Robert Morley
  • Harry Watt
  • Tommy Trinder
  • Gordon Jackson
Release date: 2009-02-02
Run time: 162 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.99

Review Foreman Went To France/Fiddlers Three [1942] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Facets / The Steamroller and the Violin [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yuri Brusser
  • Marina Adzhubei
  • Igor Fomchenko
  • Vyacheslav Borisov
  • Vladimir Zamansky
  • Andrei Tarkovsky
Release date: 2002-06-11
Run time: 46 min.
Creator: S. Bakhmetyeva
Price: £13.93

Review The Steamroller and the Violin [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Facets:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Dad's Army - The Face On The Poster [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Clive Dunn
  • Arthur Lowe
  • John Le Mesurier
  • John Laurie
  • Arnold Ridley
Release date: 1999-06-07
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Jimmy Perry
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.34

Review Dad's Army - The Face On The Poster [1968] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Carry On Jack [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Bernard Cribbins
  • Donald Houston
  • Juliet Mills
  • Gerald Thomas
Release date: 2001-08-27
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Talbot Rothwell
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.40

Review Carry On Jack [1963] / Warner Home Video:

Carry On Jack was the 1963 offering from a team which had, by then, become a repertory company with special guests dropping in for a dose of innuendo. "What's all this jigging in the rigging?" demands Kenneth Williams, this time playing a ship's captain, and the scene is set for 90 minutes of ribaldry involving cross-dressing, press-ganging and plank walking. The plot scarcely matters. It's set after the Battle of Trafalgar and the sea is awash with Spanish galleons and pirates as the British navy sets about defending its shores with as much incompetence as possible. Sally, a barmaid at the Dirty Duck (Juliet Mills in feisty principal boy mode), knocks Bernard Cribbins on the head and steals his uniform so that she can go in search of her childhood sweetheart. He is promptly press-ganged and they end up on the same ship. Williams, on the brink of his ascendancy as a star turn, just about keeps the mannerisms under control enough to build the character of the naïve and neurotic captain. Familiar Carry On faces on top form include Charles Hawtrey and Jim Dale, while Peter Gilmore-in his pre-Onedin Line days-appears as a pirate. Peter Rodgers' script is not quite vintage Carry On but the jokes keep coming and it's all good, clean fun. On the DVD: This was one of the first Carry On films to be made in colour. [+]
The print is in reasonable condition. The picture quality, apart from a couple of scratchy scenes of sailing ships that were probably drafted in from stock footage, is fair, as is the sound. But apart from the scene index there are no extras on the disc. Given the cult status of the Carry On films, and the wealth of documentary material which has been made about them and their stars, you'd think something extra could have been offered with the DVD releases to make them a more worthwhile alternative to the video. -Piers Ford.

Review Allied Artists Entertainment / Anne of Green Gables [1934] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George Nichols Jr.
  • Tom Brown
  • Helen Westley
  • O.P. Heggie
  • Sara Haden
  • Anne Shirley
Release date: 2002-12-31
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Sam Mintz
Price: £27.92

Review Anne of Green Gables [1934] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Allied Artists Entertainment:


Review Homevision / Plucking the Daisy [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Hirsch
  • Marc Allégret
  • Jacques Dumesnil
  • Jacques Bouillaud
  • Brigitte Bardot
  • Daniel Gélin
Release date: 2001-09-25
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Raymond Eger
Price: £15.28

Review Plucking the Daisy [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Homevision:


Review Turner Home Entertainment / The Big Street [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Irving Reis
  • Lucille Ball
  • Barton MacLane
  • Eugene Pallette
  • Henry Fonda
  • Agnes Moorehead
Release date: 2007-06-19
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Leonard Spigelgass
Price: £8.73

Review The Big Street [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Turner Home Entertainment:


Review Alpha Video / Gun Smoke Ranch [1937]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Kane
  • Jean Carmen
  • Kenneth Harlan
  • Ray "Crash" Corrigan
  • Jack Ingram
  • Burr Caruth
Release date: 2005-04-26
Run time: 53 min.
Creator: Russell Schoengarth
Price: £2.81

Review Gun Smoke Ranch [1937] / Alpha Video:


Review Madacy / Love Affair [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Boyer
  • Lee Bowman
  • Astrid Allwyn
  • Irene Dunne
  • Leo McCarey
  • Maria Ouspenskaya
Release date: 1998-07-07
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £28.00

Review Love Affair [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Madacy:


Review 20th Century Fox / On the Riviera [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Murat
  • Marcel Dalio
  • Gene Tierney
  • Corinne Calvet
  • Walter Lang
  • Danny Kaye
Release date: 2007-05-22
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Valentine Davies
Price: £9.65

Review On the Riviera [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Eureka Entertainment / The Buster Keaton Collection [1926]
Actors & Directors
  • James W. Horne
  • Buster Keaton
  • Charles Reisner
  • Jim Farley
  • Buster Keaton
  • Frederick Vroom
  • Glen Cavender
  • Marion Mack
  • Clyde Bruckman
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 321 min.
Creator: Carl Harbaugh
RRP: £29.99
Price: £15.15

Review The Buster Keaton Collection [1926] / Eureka Entertainment:

Buster Keaton's 1926 masterpiece The General shows the great stone-faced comedian at the height of his powers. Buster is a train driver from the South who's caught up in the American Civil War. The film is basically an extended chase, with trains pursuing each other up the track. The level of stuntwork (including a huge train wreck) has to be seen to be believed, but it's the deftness and elegance of Keaton's comedy that is ultimately most memorable. For many, Buster Keaton is the greatest comedian of the silent era rated even above Chaplin, and College (1927) is one of his finest films. A poor student who has to work his way through college, Buster is desperate to win the attention of a pretty girl so takes up sports. Through every disaster, the great "stone face" as he was nicknamed betrays not a flicker of emotion, enduring all humiliations with aplomb. College shows Keaton at the top of his form. Steamboat Bill Jr dates from 1928 and is the last great film Buster Keaton made before he gave up his independence. Buster is the rather fey son of an elderly steamboat owner who is being driven out of business by a wealthy competitor. [+]
More by accident than intention Buster turns things around and gets the girl as well. The last 15 minutes are truly astonishing: a storm sequence in which a whole town is blown apart, with Buster experiencing a series of amazing escapes as buildings fall down around his ears. Tragically, the following year he lost his independence when he signed for MGM. His career collapsed, his marriage broke up and he became an alcoholic, never to regain former glories. On the DVD: The organ music accompanying this silent feature is pleasantly unobtrusive, and apart from a short section in the middle where it deteriorates, the print quality is a reasonable 4. 3. In addition there are five excellent Keaton shorts, One Week (1920), The Boat (1921) Cops (1922), The Blacksmith (1922) and The Balloonatic (1923). -Ed Buscombe.

Review Cinema Club / Carry On Henry [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Sid James
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Terry Scott
  • Joan Sims
Release date: 2001-08-27
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Talbot Rothwell
RRP: £9.99
Price: £19.99

Review Carry On Henry [1971] / Cinema Club:

Shot in the bright postal colours of a seaside postcard, Carry on Henry applies the usual Carry On sniggering to the married life of Henry VIII. Talbot Rothwell's script is standard bedroom farce and full of jokes about choppers, while the threat of beheading and the actuality of torture are constantly present but only as the terrible things that happen to cartoon characters who will be back next time. Sid James turns in one of his better performances as the endlessly lecherous and fickle Henry, married to Joan Sims and lusting after Barbara Windsor. There is a genuine sexual chemistry between James and Windsor which at times almost breaks open the farce formula. The usual regulars-Kenneth Williams as Thomas Cromwell, Terry Scott as Cardinal Wolsey, Charles Hawtrey as Sir Roger-do their usual turns; Williams is more subdued than usual, while Hawtrey hugely enjoys playing the Queen's secret lover. This was not one of the high points of the series, but it has its own curious charm. On the DVD: The DVD has no extras whatever, but is a good clean print in 1. 77:1 ratio with crisp mono sound. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Leisure Entertainment / Boot Hill [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bud Spencer
  • Terence Hill
  • Glauco Onorato
  • Woody Strode
  • Eduardo Ciannelli
  • Giuseppe Colizzi
Release date: 2001-10-02
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Manolo Bolognini
Price: £1.85

Review Boot Hill [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Leisure Entertainment:


Review Warner Home VIdeo / The Flintstones: The Complete Fifth Season [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • William Hanna
  • Charles A. Nichols
  • Alan Reed
  • Don Messick
  • Gerry Johnson
  • Mel Blanc
  • Jean Vander Pyl
  • Joseph Barbera
Release date: 2006-03-07
Run time: 675 min.
Creator: Herbert Finn
Price: £22.46

Review The Flintstones: The Complete Fifth Season [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home VIdeo:


Review Connoisseur Video / Marx Brothers - A Night In Casablanca [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Chico Marx
  • Lois Collier
  • Archie Mayo
  • Harpo Marx
  • Groucho Marx
  • Charles Drake
Release date: 1996-10-14
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Roland Kibbee
Price: £12.99

Review Marx Brothers - A Night In Casablanca [1946] / Connoisseur Video:


Review Paramount / Martin & Lewis Collection, Vol. 1 [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Taurog
  • George Dolenz
  • Dean Martin
  • Hal Walker
  • Carmen Miranda
  • Lizabeth Scott
  • George Marshall
  • Jerry Lewis
Release date: 2006-06-13
Creator: Danny Arnold
Price: £24.43

Review Martin & Lewis Collection, Vol. 1 [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Universal Studios / Shirley Temple: Little Darling Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alexander Hall
  • Adolphe Menjou
  • Charles Bickford
  • Henry Hathaway
  • Shirley Temple
  • Lynne Overman
  • Ray Nazarro
  • Dorothy Dell
Release date: 2005-04-19
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Melville Baker
Price: £4.42

Review Shirley Temple: Little Darling Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Warner Home Video / Kind Hearts And Coronets [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Audrey Fildes
  • Alec Guinness
  • Valerie Hobson
  • Joan Greenwood
  • Dennis Price
  • Robert Hamer
Release date: 1998-07-06
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Roy Horniman
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.21

Review Kind Hearts And Coronets [1949] / Warner Home Video:

Set in Victorian England, Robert Hamer's 1949 masterpiece Kind Hearts and Coronets remains the most gracefully mordant of Ealing Comedies. Dennis Price plays Louis D'Ascoyne, the would-be Duke of Chalfont whose Mother was spurned by her noble family for marrying an Italian singer for love. Louis resolves to murder the several of his relatives ahead of him in line for the Dukedom, all of whom are played by Alec Guinness, in order to avenge his Mother-for, as Louis observes, " revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold". He gets away with it, only to be arraigned for the one murder of which he is innocent. Guinness' virtuoso performances have been justly celebrated, ranging as they do from a youthful D'Ascoyne concealing his enthusiasm for public houses from his priggish wife ("she has views on such places") to a brace of doomed uncles and one aunt, ranging from the doddery to the peppery. Miles Malleson is a splendid doggerel-spouting hangman, while Valerie Hobson and Joan Greenwood take advantage of unusually strong female roles. But the great joy of Kind Hearts and Coronets is the way in which its appallingly black subject matter (considered beyond the pale by many critics at the time) is conveyed in such elegantly ironic turns of phrase by Dennis Price's narrator/anti-hero. Serial murder has never been conducted with such exquisite manners and discreet charm. -David Stubbs.

Models & Brands:
Dad's Army - Is There Honey Still For Tea? [1968], The Littlest Angel [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Foreman Went To France/Fiddlers Three [1942], The Steamroller and the Violin [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dad's Army - The Face On The Poster [1968], Carry On Jack [1963], Anne of Green Gables [1934] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Plucking the Daisy [1956] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Big Street [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gun Smoke Ranch [1937], Love Affair [1939] (REGION 1) (NTSC), On the Riviera [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Buster Keaton Collection [1926], Carry On Henry [1971], Boot Hill [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Flintstones: The Complete Fifth Season [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Marx Brothers - A Night In Casablanca [1946], Martin & Lewis Collection, Vol. 1 [1952] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Shirley Temple: Little Darling Pack (REGION 1) (NTSC), Kind Hearts And Coronets [1949]

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