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Doctor in Trouble * (1970, Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Harry Secombe, Angela Scoular, Irene Handl, Robert Morley, Simon Dee, Freddie Jones, Joan Sims) – Classic Movie Review 3144

‘Laughs a Minute on the High Seas!’ Alas, Doctor in Trouble is right. Leslie Phillips is back as Dr Tony Burke, who is in love with Ophelia O’Brien (Angela Scoular), who promptly leaves for a […]

Dec, 09

Doctor in Love ** (1960, Michael Craig, Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Joan Sims, Joan Hickson, Virginia Maskell, Liz Fraser, Irene Handl, Fenella Fielding, Nicholas Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 3141

‘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 […]

Dec, 09

Doctor in Clover ** (1966, Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice, Shirley Anne Field, Joan Sims, John Fraser, Arthur Haynes, Fenella Fielding) – Classic Movie Review 3143

The sixth Doctor film from 1966 has some very rough edges, and plays without series star Dirk Bogarde but with Leslie Phillips as the main star instead, which is not the same thing at all. […]

Dec, 09

Carry On Columbus (1992, Jim Dale, Bernard Cribbins, June Whitfield, Leslie Phillips, Maureen Lipman, Julian Clary, Rik Mayall, Jack Douglas, Jon Pertwee, Peter Gilmore) – Classic Movie Review 2380

In 1992 Gerald Thomas directs the 30th and final Carry On movie after a 14-year gap since Carry On Emmannuelle in 1978. Dave Freeman’s naff script for this reunion film bears a remarkable resemblance to […]

Apr, 12

Carry On Constable *** (1960, Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 1,908

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 […]

Dec, 01

Brothers in Law **** (1957, Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Miles Malleson, Raymond Huntley, Eric Barker) – Classic Movie Review 1,846

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.  […]

Nov, 16

The Smallest Show on Earth ***** (1957, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Miles) – Classic Movie Review 1643

Small is beautiful. Happy days with the ramshackle, debt-ridden old London fleapit cinema called The Bijou in the 1957 Brit comedy film The Smallest Show on Earth. Director Basil Dearden’s adorable 1957 British comedy classic […]

Sep, 07

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