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Director Bob Kellett’s relatively harmless 1977 British comedy Are You Being Served? is the big-screen spinoff from the much-loved long-running BBC TV series as the staff of the London Grace Brothers department store flies off […]
Director Marcel Varnel’s 1938 British vintage comedy is wicked fun with Will Hay and his cronies Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt trying to spread knowledge among African natives. Marriott Edgar, Val Guest and J O C […]
Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s 1950 British school-days farcical comedy is super vintage fun. John Dighton and Launder’s screenplay, adapted from John Dighton’s stage play, is all about the antagonism and chaos caused when a British government department […]
Producer-director Mario Zampi’s eager-to-please 1957 British black and white comedy The Naked Truth [Your Past Is Showing] is a minor but definite vintage pleasure. A broad, mostly successful black farce, it is based on […]
Jonny Owen writes and stars in this slightly quirky, slightly funny, very old-fashioned comedy look at the British music scene. He plays, rather likeably, a loveable loser called Dixie, up in London from the sticks, who […]
The beloved 1953 film comedy Genevieve is a glorious highlight of Fifties British cinema and a guaranteed feel-good film and rib-tickler. An all-time-great, it won the 1954 Bafta award for Best British Film. ‘Ambrose only […]
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