Review, buy Comedy: Bon Voyage! [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The League Of Gentlemen [1960], The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum [1966], The Graduate [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Good Soldier Schweik 2: Beg to Report, Sir [1957], Benny Hill - Double Helpings [1962], The Thrill Of It All [1963], Ford at Fox: The Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), Three Smart Girls Grow Up, Bing Crosby - Road To Hollywood [1931], The Littlest Angel [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Paint Your Wagon [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), I Love Lucy - Vol. 3 - The Ricardo's Are Having A Baby, That Girl: Season One [1966] (REGION 1) (NTSC), My Dog, the Thief [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Beast That Killed Women/Monster of Camp Sunshine [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Charlie Chaplin - The Essanay Films - Vol. 2 [1915], People Will Talk [1951] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Birth of the Blues/Blue Skies (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Review Walt Disney Video / Bon Voyage! [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Bon Voyage! [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Walt Disney Video)

Actors & Directors

Jessie Royce Landis
Jane Wyman
James Neilson
Fred MacMurray
Michael Callan
Deborah Walley

Release date: 2004-02-03
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Marrijane Hayes
Price: £7.75

Review Bon Voyage! [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

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Review ITV DVD / The League Of Gentlemen [1960]

The League Of Gentlemen [1960] (ITV DVD)

Actors & Directors

Nigel Patrick
Roger Livesey
Jack Hawkins
Basil Dearden
Richard Attenborough
Bryan Forbes

Release date: 2004-01-26
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: John Boland
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £49.99

Review The League Of Gentlemen [1960] / ITV DVD:

The League of Gentlemen is a sardonic crime drama in which Jack Hawkins plays an embittered retired army officer who recruits seven fellow ex-soldiers to carry out a bank raid with military precision. The film presents an England between post-war austerity and the more liberated 1960s where traditional moral certainties were rapidly being discarded; a London where ex-officers left on the scrapheap at war's end could justify turning their military experience to armed robbery. Unfortunately the tale is neither particularly amusing or thrilling, with an overlong central detour via an army camp prefacing the exciting heist and a largely anti-climactic ending. Nevertheless Hawkins effectively subverts his heroic officer type from The Cruel Sea (1953) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and there's excellent support from a great cast including Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough and Roger Livesey. Bryan Forbes not only wrote the cynical screenplay but costarred with wife Nanette Newman in her first significant screen role. More influential than truly classic, The League of Gentlemen has lent its name to a modern BBC comedy, an "Extraordinary" comic strip-turned-movie, and proved the template for heist films ever since, including both versions of The Italian Job (1969 and 2003). On the DVD:The League of Gentlemen is presented in an anamorphically enhanced 16:9 transfer from an excellent condition print and mostly looks and sounds fine. There's minimal print damage, though sadly Philip Green's ironically patriotic main title music suffers from significant distortion. The only extra is the original trailer, which is now something of a period piece itself. -Gary S Dalkin.

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Review Walt Disney Video / The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Walt Disney Video)

Actors & Directors

Norman Tokar
Fred Clark
Lloyd Bochner
Ellen Janov
Dean Jones
Diane Baker

Release date: 2003-01-14
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Louis Pelletier
Price: £4.65

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Review MGM Entertainment / A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum [1966]

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum [1966] (MGM Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Michael Crawford
Richard Lester
Phil Silvers
Buster Keaton
Zero Mostel
Jack Gilford

Release date: 2001-08-06
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Titus Maccius Plautus
Price: £5.99

Review A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum [1966] / MGM Entertainment:

The words of the opening song pretty much describe the menu in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum-"Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone: a comedy tonight!"-a frantic adaptation of the stage musical by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove. The wild story, based on the Latin comedies of Plautus and set in ancient Rome, follows a slave named Pseudolus (Zero Mostel, snorting and gibbering) as he tries to extricate himself from an increasingly farcical situation; Mostel and a bevy of inspired clowns, including Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and Buster Keaton, keep the slapstick and the patter perking. The cast also includes the young Michael Crawford as a love-struck innocent. This project landed in the lap of Richard Lester, then one of the hot test directors in the world after his success with the Beatles' films. Lester telescoped the material through his own joke-a-second sensibility, and also ripped out some of the songs from Stephen Sondheim's Broadway score. The result is very close to the vaudeville spirit suggested by the title-though anyone with a low tolerance for Zero Mostel's overbearing buffoonery may be in trouble. Oddly enough, amid all the frenzy, Lester creates a grungy, earthy Rome that seems closer to the real thing than countless respectable historical films on the subject. Frankie Howerd, who played Pseudolus on the London stage, kept the tradition going with his Up Pompei TV series. -Robert Horton, Amazon. com.

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Review MGM / The Graduate [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

The Graduate [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (MGM)

Actors & Directors

Katharine Ross
Dustin Hoffman
William Daniels
Murray Hamilton
Anne Bancroft
Mike Nichols

Release date: 1999-12-07
Run time: 106 min.
Creator: Calder Willingham
Price: £3.23

Review The Graduate [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

Few films have defined a generation as The Graduate did. The alienation, the non-conformity, the intergenerational romance, the blissful Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack-they all served to lob a cultural grenade smack into the middle of 1967 America, ultimately making the film the third most profitable up to that time. Seen from a later perspective, its radical chic has dimmed a bit, yet it's still a joy to see Dustin Hoffman's bemused Benjamin and Anne Bancroft's deliciously decadent, sardonic Mrs. Robinson. The script by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham is still offbeat and dryly funny, and Mike Nichols, who won an Oscar for his direction, has just the right, light touch. -Anne Hurley, Amazon. com.

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