John Cleese, connie booth and Arthur Lowe star in the strange case of the end of civilisation as we know it

Sherlock Holmes, But Not As We Know It

General Film
The Strange Case Of The End Of Civilization As We Know It, 1977 The Guinness World Records  consistently lists Sherlock Holmes as the "most portrayed movie character" so it's no surprise thst there should be a...
monty python's surreal film pofering the meaning of life

Monty Python Take A Look At Life

General Film
Monty Python's Meaning Of Life, 1983 Surreal, bizarre, call it what you will, but only Monty Python could get away with it, yes it's the fourth of the Monty Python films The Meaning Of Life.  Tackling the subj...

The House In Nightmare Park

General Film
The House In Nightmare Park - 1973Frankie Howerd starred in this parody of the successful Hammer Horror Films.  A certain writer famous for his Doctor Who creations is co-writer and producer.Although we...

Benny Hill On the Big Screen

General Film
Benny Hill, Who Done It, 1956 Benny Hill had just begun his famous TV show when, in 1956, he made his big screen-starring debut in one of the last Ealing comedies ever made.The film co-starred Belinda Lee ...
peter sellers retuns one last time as inspector clouseau in the revenge of the pink panther

Revenge Of The Pink Panther

General Film
Revenge Of The Pink Panther, 1978 It's 40 years (1980) since we lost the great Peter Sellers.  As a tribute to the great comic we are looking back at the final outing for Sellers as one of his most famous char...

Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall

General Film
Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall, 1973 Adapted from Spike Milligan's best selling first volume of his war memoirs of the same title.This 1973 big screen adaptation featured an all star cast including ...

The Bargee

General Film
The Bargee, 1964 The Bargee is a British comedy film.Released in 1964 the film included amongst it's credits the coming together of a team that had all worked together before: Harry H. Corbett, Duncan Wood...

Rhubarb And More Rhubarb

1980's ITV Comedy, General Film
Rhubarb The Film, 1969 and Rhubarb, Rhubarb, TV, 1980 Like 'The Plank' before it Rhubarb was an Eric Sykes short film that had a Television remake of a similar name.The original Rhubarb went on general rel...
A cast list that reads like a who's who of comedy legends star in eric sykes' the plank both in cinemas in 1967 and on tv in 1979

The Story Of A Plank?

1970's ITV Comedy, General Film
The Plank - 1967 (Cinema), 1979 (TV) Based on a comedy sketch called "Sykes and a Plank", which was written by Eric Sykes for his comedy television series "Sykes and a" An all star line up come together in thi...