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The Intelligence Men ** (1965, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, William Franklyn, Richard Vernon, David Lodge, Warren Mitchell, Francis Matthews, Tutte Lemkow) – Classic Movie Review 6572
Director Robert Asher’s 1965 spy caper comedy is the first of only three films from beloved British comic duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Though made at the peak of their popularity, it lets them […]
The Bellboy *** (1960, Jerry Lewis, Alex Gerry, Bob Clayton) – Classic Movie Review 5949
Writer-producer-director Jerry Lewis’s 1960 comedy The Bellboy also sees him starring as mute bungling bellboy Stanley, who is up to his madcap, pratfall tricks at a famous posh Florida hotel – the Fontainebleau in Miami […]
Crimewave *** (1985, Louise Lasser, Paul L Smith, Brion James) – Classic Movie Review 5880
Writer-director Sam Raimi joins forces with the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, for the script of this strange, knockabout, 1985 black-comedy thriller, gleefully infested with spoof slapstick goofball absurd black humour. Oddball actors Paul L […]
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire [Vampire Over London] ** (1952, Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 5645
Producer-director John Gilling’s silly but harmless 1952 British comedy horror Mother Riley Meets the Vampire [Vampire Over London] stars Arthur Lucan as Old Mother Riley who puts on his drag glad-rags for the final time […]
Beach Party *** (1963, Robert Cummings, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Vincent Price, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 4918
It’s all here – the Sixties, slapstick, songs, satire, sand, sun, sea, surf, and of course sex! What more can you ask for? Oh, subtlety and sophistication, I suppose. Director William Asher’s 1963 American International […]
The Prisoner of Zenda *½ (1979, Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra, Stuart Wilson, Jeremy Kemp, Catherine Schell) – Classic Movie Review 4653
Director Richard Quine mistakenly remakes Anthony Hope’s Ruritanian classic as a zany slapstick comedy with the tamest of results. Peter Sellers, however, puts a lot of energy into his two major roles of lisping rightful […]