Futtock’s End
Futtock's End - 1970
The late great Ronnie Barker stars in Futtock's End, a short (40min), silent, colour film. The exact date seems to jump about a bit product catalogues indicate 1969 where research shows ...
Yellowbeard
Thirty Years Ago Today Monty Python Star Graham Chapman Died
Yellowbeard, 1983
Celebrating 50 years of Monty Python and commemorating 30 years since the death of Graham Chapman we look back at a Graham Chapma...
A Shot In The Dark
A Shot In The Dark - 1964
The second installment of the original Pink Panther series of films and possibly the funniest. The great Peter Sellers reprises his role as legendary comic figure Inspector Jacques Cl...
No Sex Please We’re British
No Sex Please We're British - 1973
An all star cast assembled for the 1973 film No Sex Please We're British adapted from the classic stage play of the same name that made it's debut in 1971.For the film ve...
Ricky Tomlinson’s Got The Dream Job?
Mike Bassett, England Manager, 2001
Football is not a subject that has caught he eye of comedy writers very much over the years. Mike Bassett went straight for perhaps the most controversial, the England Mana...
Two Comedy Greats Go On The Run…..
Nuns On The Run, 1990
This British Comedy classic starred two comedy heavyweights: Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane. It was produced by ex Beatle George Harrison's Handmade Films.The film has received mixed ...
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 ...
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 ...