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Go for a Take [Double Take] * (1972, Reg Varney, Norman Rossington, Patrick Newell, Sue Lloyd, Dennis Price, Julie Ege) – Classic Movie Review 9906

Director Harry Booth’s 1972 British comedy Go for a Take [Double Take] stars Reg Varney from TV’s On the Buses, who goes for a change of pace as Wilfred Stone, a waiter chased by hoods […]

Jun, 13

Car Trouble ** (1986, Julie Walters, Ian Charleson, Vincent Riotta, Stratford Johns, Hazel O’Connor, Dave Hill) – Classic Movie Review 9870

Director David Green’s 1986 Car Trouble is a bizarre, wacky little British comedy of frustration, which tries hard to raise laughs, and sometimes succeeds, and should probably be cherished a little since it comes from […]

Jun, 06

George and Mildred * (1980, Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Stratford Johns, Sheila Fearn, Kenneth Cope, Dudley Sutton, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 9847

Director Peter Frazer-Jones’s 1980 comedy George and Mildred is a fairly dismal film version of the popular British TV comedy show (1976-80) with Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy as the Ropers, whose anniversary package trip […]

May, 31

Dancin’ Thru the Dark ***½ (1990, Claire Hackett, Ben Murphy, Con O’Neill, Peter Beckett ) – Classic Movie Review 9822

Director Mike Ockrent’s good-natured, warm-hearted 1990 British comedy Dancin’ Thru the Dark stars Claire Hackett as Linda, who is out on a wild hen-night with her hen friends while her fiancé Dave (Conrad Nelson) is […]

May, 26

Is That All There Is? *** (1992, director Lindsay Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 9807

‘Perfection is not an aim.’ Lindsay Anderson’s entertaining and informative 1992 75-minute autobiographical film for BBC Scotland, Is That All There Is?, is ironically his last film, first shown in 1992 and finally released in […]

May, 23

Dentist on the Job ** (1961, Bob Monkhouse, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Ronnie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9790

In Dentist on the Job [Get On with It], C M Pennington-Richards’s 1961 sequel to 1960’s hit comedy Dentist in the Chair, Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Stevens return to play David Cookson and Brian Dexter, […]

May, 19

Dentist in the Chair *** (1960, Bob Monkhouse, Peggy Cummins, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Ronnie Stevens, Reginald Beckwith, Vincent Ball) – Classic Movie Review 9785

Director Don Chaffey’s amusing 1960 British black and white comedy Dentist in the Chair stars Bob Monkhouse and Ronnie Stevens as David Cookson and Brian Dexter, young dental-school students who become embroiled with petty criminal […]

May, 17

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