The Belles of St Trinian’s
The Belles of St Trinian's, 1954
St Trinian's is of course is the fictional boarding school for girls, the creation of English cartoonist Ronald Searle. The first cartoon had appeared in 1941, but shortly aft...
There’s Trouble In Store For Norman Wisdom
Trouble In Store, 1953
Norman Wisdom's very first feature film that won him a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer.The film itself broke box office records at the time of it's release in 51 out of the 6...
Sherlock Holmes, But Not As We Know It
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 Take A Look At Life
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
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
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 ...
Revenge Of The Pink Panther
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
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
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...
Tony Hancock’s First Big Screen Outing….
The Rebel, 1961
It's 1961. Thanks to the superb scripts written for him by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, comedian Tony Hancock is one of Britain's biggest stars.With the Hancock's Half Hour TV and Radio sho...