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Paramount Pictures’ entertaining 1946 black and white comedy adventure Monsieur Beaucaire stars Bob Hope as the title French court barber involved in politics at the time of King Louis XV. Director George Marshall’s 1946 Paramount […]
Funny, busy and inventive W C Fields short, with the star on hilarious form as the barber Cornelius O’Hare, with a typically grouchy wife (Elise Cavanna) and an unattainable object of lust (Dagmar Oakland). ‘Are […]
Co-writer/ director Nicholas Gessner’s 1969 Italian comedy Twelve Plus One [12 + 1] [The Thirteen Chairs] is an interesting but oddly unpersuasive piece, with a hesitant tone, but it is notable for the last screen […]
Director Lloyd French’s 1934 comedy short Oliver the Eighth is, naturally enough, about Oliver, Oliver Hardy, that is, who answers a personal column ad to marry a wealthy widow called Mrs Fox (Mae Busch), who […]
Director S Sylvan Simon’s 1945 MGM vehicle for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello cast them as Buzz and Abercrombie, who run a barbershop in Tinseltown and become showbiz agents with Jeff Parker (Robert Stanton [aka […]
Director George King’s 1936 British horror thriller happily records for posterity Tod Slaughter’s famous barnstorming performance as the 1760s London barber Sweeney Todd in this film version of George Dibdin-Pitt’s play. Before the Stephen Sondheim musical, Slaughter’s turn […]
Producer-writer-director Charles Chaplin’s 1940 brave, risky and pioneering satirical comedy classic focuses on a timid Jewish barber who is mistaken for the dictator of Tomania (‘our Fooey’) and then takes over from him. A stirring, controversial condemnation of […]
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