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Womble fans unite for director Lionel Jeffries 1977 family comedy Wombling Free, the feature-length film version of the popular children’s TV show about a band of rubbish-clearing furry things who live on Wimbledon Common in […]
Director Erle C Kenton’s 1934 comedy You’re Telling Me! stars W C Fields as Mr Sam Brisbee, an optician despised in his small town, particularly by his wife Bessie/ or Abigail (Louise Carter), for his […]
Director Gregory La Cava 1926 comedy So’s Your Old Man is one of W C Fields’s best silent comedies, in which he plays Mr Samuel Bisbee, a tippling glazier and henpecked husband, who takes his […]
Co-writer/ director Peter Hewitt ‘s daft and wacky 2002 sci-fi family comedy tells the story of Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook), a boy born with an explosive problem but wants it to help him to fulfill his […]
Director Alexander Mackendrick’s joyous, typically quirky 1951 Ealing Studios comedy stars Alec Guinness as an inventor called Sidney Stratton who discovers a miracle cloth fabric that can never get dirty or wear out. That’s the […]
Charles Chaplin’s endlessly clever, inventive and witty 1936 satire on modern factory methods, inspired by René Clair’s famous 1931 left-wing satirical comedy À Nous la Liberté, is a silent comedy made nearly a decade after […]
Guillermo del Toro’s eerie, imaginative and atmospheric 1993 Mexican horror movie centres on an extraordinary, mysterious mechanism encapsulated into a small, bug-like golden device, designed and built by an alchemist in 1535 to provide its […]
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