A Fish Called Wanda, 1988
A Fish Called Wanda was the hugely successful American-British heist comedy film. Co-written by ex Monty Python star John Cleese, the film was also notable for a performance of another ex-Monty Python star: M...
The Pink Panther – 1963
Back to where to where it all began in 1963. Whilst The Pink Panther franchise is American it did star one of Britain's most brilliant comic actors Peter Sellers, the franchise would go on to be recognised as...
The Race Is On..
The Waterloo Bridge Handicap, 1978
A short comedy film shown in British cinemas in 1978. In the same vein as The Plank and such films there is very little dialogue apart from Leonard Rossiter's voiceover and ...
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 67 London cinemas in whic...
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 afterwards Searle had to fulfil his m...
Clockwise – 1986
We're off to the movies for this post as we go back 28 years to look at John Cleese in somthing other than Python or Fawlty Towers.Clockwise was a British comedy film first screened in 1986. Filmed around ...
The Return Of The Pink Panther
The Return Of The Pink Panther - 1975
Peter Sellers returns to his most famous role as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. The third in the series was released some eleven years after A Shot In The Dark and twel...