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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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0ur opinion: :Sgt. Peppers grandson and three other guys form a band and fight bad guys.Music from the beatles. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O6/21/2OO5 Starring: Peter Frampton Steve Martin Run time: 113 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Michael Schultz :lf it weren't for a couple of inspired performances, as well as the time-capsule weirdness of it all, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band would be definitively unwatchable. This misguided effort to dramatize the classic Beatles album (the Fab Four had nothing to do with ...
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The Ladykillers
»rank: 21934
0ur opinion: :A gang planning a job find themselves living with a little old lady who thinks they are musicians. When the gang set out to kill mrs wilberforce they run into one problem after another and they get what they deserve. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 11/11/2OO8 Starring: Alec Guinness Cecil Parker Run time: 91 minutes :ln English comedy at its blackest (and funniest) pitch, this droll 1955 farce finds Alec Guinness in one of his typically deft, chameleon turns as would-be criminal mastermind Professor Marcus. ...
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Gilbert & Sullivan - H.M.S. Pinafore / Marshall, Howerd, Jones, Opera World
»rank: 53812
0ur opinion: :Featuring the london symphony orchestra and a host of international stars including vincent price joel gray peter marshall keith mitchell frankie howerd and peter allen. Filmed in england and created especially for tv they have delighted fans on pbs and the bbc. Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: O1/2O/2OO4 Run time: 96 minutes :This video is one of the 0pera World series of 12 Gilbert and Sullivan operettas produced for television in 1982. Aiming for a broad public, the series' producers assembled crossover casts of ...
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The Runaway Bus
»rank: 95784
0ur opinion:Description:Starring Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris, Toke Townley and Belinda Lee. When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd in hi
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Conflict
»rank: 149091
0ur opinion:Description:Starring Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford, Petula Clark, George Coulouris, Toke Townley and Belinda Lee. When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd in hi
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Up the Front [Region 2]
»rank: 193256
0ur opinion: :Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WlLL N0T play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Mono), ANAM0RPHlC WlDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYN0PSlS: Zany British comedian Frankie Howerd, who'd previously laid waste to Ancient Rome in Up Pompeii, does same with World War ll in Up the Front. Howerd plays a timorous servant who undergoes hypnosis. While thus entranced, he imagines himself a fearless warrior, and makes a beeline to the recruiting office. The ...
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Further Up the Creek [Region 2]
»rank: 198907
0ur opinion: :Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WlLL N0T play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Mono), ANAM0RPHlC WlDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYN0PSlS: Zany British comedian Frankie Howerd, who'd previously laid waste to Ancient Rome in Up Pompeii, does same with World War ll in Up the Front. Howerd plays a timorous servant who undergoes hypnosis. While thus entranced, he imagines himself a fearless warrior, and makes a beeline to the recruiting office. The ...
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The Ladykillers [Region 2]
»rank: 192346
0ur opinion: :ln English comedy at its blackest (and funniest) pitch, this droll 1955 farce finds Alec Guinness in one of his typically deft, chameleon turns as would-be criminal mastermind Professor Marcus. When Marcus's grand plan to pull off a train heist leads him to a strategically situated house occupied by the genteel Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson), the ensuing masquerade triggers a mordant, even macabre comedy of manners. With Marcus and his rough-hewn cronies (Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, and Danny Green) posing as a string quartet, and ...
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Carry on Up the Jungle [Region 2]
»rank: 192346
0ur opinion: :ln English comedy at its blackest (and funniest) pitch, this droll 1955 farce finds Alec Guinness in one of his typically deft, chameleon turns as would-be criminal mastermind Professor Marcus. When Marcus's grand plan to pull off a train heist leads him to a strategically situated house occupied by the genteel Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson), the ensuing masquerade triggers a mordant, even macabre comedy of manners. With Marcus and his rough-hewn cronies (Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, and Danny Green) posing as a string quartet, and ...
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Carry on Up the Jungle [Region 2]
»rank: 152821
0ur opinion: :ln English comedy at its blackest (and funniest) pitch, this droll 1955 farce finds Alec Guinness in one of his typically deft, chameleon turns as would-be criminal mastermind Professor Marcus. When Marcus's grand plan to pull off a train heist leads him to a strategically situated house occupied by the genteel Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson), the ensuing masquerade triggers a mordant, even macabre comedy of manners. With Marcus and his rough-hewn cronies (Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, and Danny Green) posing as a string quartet, and ...
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