Items Matching Tag 'British Comedy'

Go To Blazes (DVD Details)
Bernard, Harry and Alfie are three charming but unsuccessful crooks whose smash-and-grab tactics always go awry.On their way to another stint behind bars, the trio spot an on call fire engine and hatch a new plan. Upon release they set out to acquire a fire engine to use as the perfect getaway vehicle on a jewellery robbery. When the gang get mistaken for real firemen their plan begins to slowly...

Oh Please Yourselves... Frankie Howerd at ITV (2 Discs) (DVD Details)
At the time of his death in 1992, Frankie Howerd was firmly established as a national comedy treasure, his risque jokes, double entendres and meandering anecdotes having enlivened television schedules over nearly four decades. Some of his most successful shows were produced for ITV, and this set presents six shows transmitted on the network between 1973 and 1991 which reflect an ever-broadening...

Whisky Galore (80 Years of Ealing) (Blu-ray Details)
When a ship carrying 50,000 cases of whisky runs aground, the inhabitants of a Scottish island cannot resist the temptation to replenish their depleted supplies. Only an English Home Guard captain (brilliantly played by Basil Greenwood) stands in their way.

The Lavender Hill Mob (60th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray Details)
Holland (Alec Guinness), is a shy retiring man who works as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion who befriends Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a maker of souvenirs. The two plan to forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle the gold into France.

Don't Drink The Water: The Complete Series (DVD Details)
It's going to be another stinking hot day today..." This hilarious sequel to On the Buses follows the further misfortunes of the newly retired Inspector Blake (Stephen Lewis), erstwhile scourge of the Luxton Bus Company Depot. Dreaming of peace and quiet, sun and senoritas, he's decided to warm up the autumn of his days in a little flat in Spain that the glossy brochures have lured him into...

My Old Man - The Complete Series 1 (DVD Details)
Clive Dunn (Bootsie and Snudge, Dad's Army) is Sam Cobbett, the geriatric hero of this hilarious sitcom from Yorkshire Television. Based on a BBC pilot that originally starred Ronnie Barker, My Old Man takes a look at the generation gap in particular, what happens when a crusty, opinionated old timer ends up living under the same roof as his daughter and son-in-law. Also starring Dunn's wife...

Thirty Minutes Worth - Series One (DVD Details)
Harry Worth, the master of comic confusion, welcomes you to his first ever series for ITV, the first of eight programmes in which he moves away from situation comedy and appears in a brand new format. Each entertaining sketch sees the bumbling, well-meaning Harry reduce everyone he comes into contact with, whether it be his neighbours, his doctor or the police, to a state of bewilderment and...

The Ladykillers: The StudioCanal Collection (Blu-ray Details)
The Ladykillers, director Alexander Mackendrick's third Ealing farce, is the final comedy produced by the famous British studio and one of its most celebrated. Like the equally applauded Kind Hearts And Coronets, the film is more sophisticated and blacker in tone than typically lighthearted Ealing fare (such as Mackendrick's Whiskey Galore!). Alec Guinness stars as the superbly shifty, toothily...

Scrooge (DVD Details)
Ebeneezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) contentedly meanders through his life as a cruel miser until one fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghosts. The spirits show him how his behavior has degenerated over the years as his heart has become colder. Using events from Scrooge's idealistic past, dreary present, and dismal future, the apparitions try their best to melt his steely soul. Will...

I'm not feeling myself tonight! (DVD Details)
Virginal nerd Jon Pigeon works in a peculiar sex research institute in which patients run about the corridors naked, nude aerobics are encouraged and where no man is safe from a crotch grabbing old tea lady. In order to seduce office secretary Cheryl, Pigeon invents a machine nicknamed Agnes which emits a 'sonic aphrodisiac' that can turn any man or woman into an over-lustful sex maniac. While his...

Another Shore (DVD Details)
Loafer Gulliver Sheils dreams about escaping his humdrum life in 1940s Ireland and living in Tahiti. He hopes to rescue a wealthy person from a traffic accident who will then reward him for his heroism. Ironically he befriends a tycoon who offers to take him to the South Seas but gets involved in a traffic accident, forcing him to stay in Dublin. A rarely-seem Ealing comedy, tagged as' A Tragi-Come...

A Run for Your Money (DVD Details)
Former editor Charles Frend directs the British comedy A RUN FOR YOUR MONEY, produced by the famous Ealing Studio. Brothers Dai and Twn are a pair of country boys from Wales who win a trip to London to see a publicized football match between the Welsh and English teams. Upon arriving in the big city, however, the two are separated and must find one another in time for the match. Unfortunately,...

A French Mistress (DVD Details)
The boys at Melbury Public School are thrown into turmoil when their new French tutor turns out to be the gorgeous Madeleine Lefarge.....

Will Any Gentlemen? (1953) (DVD Details)
When a mild-mannered clerk is hypnotized he becomes a charming playboy. Stars Minder's George Cole and Joan Sims.

The Goose Steps Out (1942) (DVD Details)
A bumbling teacher (Will Hay) conveniently turns out to be the double of a German general. In the true spirit of wartime propoganda high jinks, he is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college (populated by the likes of Peter Ustinov, Charles Hawtrey and Barry Morse).