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‘TAKE A DEEP BREATH…then laugh your head off at the comedy where the girls are medically chaste’ The rather less charismatic or popular Michael Craig takes over in 1960 from the much-missed series star Dirk […]
Ralph Thomas’s 1954 British comedy smash Doctor in the House is the now venerable first film of Richard Gordon’s stories of the medical students of St Swithin’s Hospital in London. It was Britain’s most popular […]
Director Douglas Hickox’s engagingly outrageous 1973 British horror farce movie Theatre of Blood provides an ideal showcase for Vincent Price, whose talent for succulent over-acting is lavishly displayed when he plays crazed thespian Edward Lionheart, […]
Director Gerald Thomas’s 1961 comedy of misunderstandings Carry On Regardless is the fifth Carry On movie. It is the one about the Helping Hands employment agency, whose boss, Bert Handy (Sidney James) assigns odd jobs to bungling odd-job […]
Gerald Thomas’s 1960 laughter-raiser Carry On Constable is number four in the Carry On series of 31 films. Sid James stars as police Sgt Frank Wilkins trying to cope with comic cops Kenneth Connor, Kenneth […]
Malcolm Muggeridge came up with the idea for the Boulting Brothers’ thoughtful and entertaining 1963 satirical comedy film Heavens Above! Peter Sellers tickles the funny bone even in a largely serious performance as the Rev […]
One of the most successful and best of the Carry On movies, director Gerald Thomas’s Carry On Nurse was Britain’s top money-maker in 1959. Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams and Wilfrid Hyde White star as broken-wristed […]