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Director Cliff Owen’s vintage 1962 comedy stars Peter Sellers, who finds one of his most rewarding British parts as Pearly Gates, a criminal mastermind. This exuberant, delightful farce about bungling crooks in the London underworld […]
Director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1959 comedy I’m All Right Jack showcases one of Peter Sellers’s all-time greatest performances as the canny but blinkered and blustering union boss, shop steward Fred Kite, who […]
Co-writer/co-director Roy Boulting and his producer brother John Boulting turn their attention to sending up the British Foreign Office in 1959 in another one of their series of highly successful satirical comedies of the period. […]
Co-writer/director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1956 vintage British comedy Private’s Progress stars Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas and William Hartnell. The Boulting Brothers take the risk of sending up the then […]
The Boulting Brothers’ spirited 1957 British comedy film Brothers in Law sends up the UK legal profession. It is based on the 1955 novel by Henry Cecil, and stars Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas. […]
Director Richard Lester’s 1963 satirical comedy sequel to 1959’s The Mouse that Roared has major cast and crew changes but is thankfully still very funny, delightful and often hilarious. Sadly, there is no Peter Sellers […]
‘It’s the picture about that bone-chilling HOWL!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1959 vintage horror mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles is based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and stars Peter Cushing as Sherlock […]