Items Matching Tag 'Frankie Howerd'

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...

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...

Carry On Christmas Special (Box Set) (UK) (DVD Details)
A collection of four Christmas specials from the Carry On gang: Carry On Christmas (1969), Carry On Again Christmas a.k.a. Carry On Long John (1970), Carry On Christmas a.k.a. Carry On Stuffing (1972), and Carry On Christmas (1973).

Carry On Doctor (Special Edition) (UK) (DVD Details)
Amusing antics abound when the patients revolt against the hospital staff!