Comedy > 1966 Comedy

You're rotten Mr Grinch.

Advantages: Sends a positive message, good fun animation
Disadvantages: Short

...reason." How the Grinch Stole Christmas- The animated movie follows the original story by Dr Seuss with none of the additions and extra plot lines of the 2000 live action movie. The Grinch hates Christmas and all that comes with it, the songs, the gifts, the lights, the celebrations. Unable to cope with the thought of Christmas' imminent arrival one year he decides to put a stop to it and hatches a plan. Creating himself a Santa Claus outfit and ...
...the Who's do not react how he expects changing the Grinchs opinion of the whole Christmas season. "Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. "Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!" " Price & availability- I mentioned earlier that I got my DVD from Wilkinsons for £2.99, while it is not widely available throughout the year it does crop up a lot more during the ...

piggypine 29.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Animated) (DVD)

It's a scream!

Advantages: Monsters & Fenella Fielding
Disadvantages: Lack of extras

...is most definately my favourite Carry On film for many different reasons. It used to scare the heck out of me as a child (I remember having nightmares about it several times after seeing it as a very young boy) but as I grew older I found Fenella Fielding extremely sexy and enjoyed watching it for her amazing performance. This is the Carry On teams take on classic British Horror, emulating such greats as Hammer Studios. They give us Frankensteins, ...
...more unusual Carry Ons as we don't have Sid James (who was away doing theatre at the time), Hattie Jaques or Barbara Windsor. Instead the male lead is played by Harry H. Corbett (better known as Harold Steptoe) despite being written for Sid James, the character is even called Sidney Bung but to maintain a Sid James type of continuity his battle axe of a wife is played by Carry On regular Joan Sims who normally did play SId's wife in most of the ...

atytyut2434 28.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Carry On Screaming (DVD)

A bit of a damp squib

Advantages: Eric and Ernie, some funny moments.
Disadvantages: Very dated, average British 1960s comedy

...for the big screen and That Riviera Touch was one of these films. Eric had heart problems in middle age and died whilst performing on stage on 28th May 1984 at the age of 58. Ernie carried on his career in comedy with appearances on chat shows and quiz programmes but, as the straight man of the comedy duo, never quite succeeded after Eric's death. Despite this the public still enjoyed seeing him on television and he died on March 21st, 1999, at the ...
...become classic, British comedy. THAT RIVIERA TOUCH. I remember watching this film back in the sixties and seventies and enjoying it. So much so that seeing it advertised for Saturday afternoon TV I thought I would put my feet up and give it a whirl. Well I do not know if it is just that my taste and the times have changed, or what, but it was certainly a silly film and not really very funny at all. The film was released in 1966 and starts with ...

grafter123 01.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of That Riviera Touch (DVD)

Is that YOU, Gladys?????

Advantages: all epsiodes present, in order and unedited
Disadvantages: takes some getting used to the new Gladys Kravitz, no extras

...Season three of Bewitched brought many changes to life at 1164 Morning Glory Circle. For starters, the Stephen's baby, Tabitha, goes from the chubby little black haired infant darling to cute curly, blonde haired and blue eyed tot who begins to display her witchly powers with the development of childish wishcraft. The second change is long time nosy neighbour Gladys Kravitz. Sadly, award winning Alice Pearce died at the end of season two from terminal ...
...the decision tor recast the role was made and Sandra Gould took the role. This takes some getting used too, as she simply was different in so many ways to her predecessor. While good, she simply did not have quite the same character in her features to play homely, neurotic Gladys and relies far too much on shrillness. This Gladys is also always immaculately dressed and coifed, which is distinctly at odds with our previous experiences of Gladys Kravitz, ...

Shroud 01.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Bewitched - Series 3 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

He should have stuck to the Pink Panther

Advantages: Peter Sellers…just about
Disadvantages: Everything else

...petered out and pretty soon after that, I lost the will to live and really struggled to watch the end of the film. The director Vittorio De Sica, who makes a brief appearance in the film, was born in Naples and worked first as a shipping clerk, before becoming an actor. His directing career began in 1940 and he made a name for himself in Italy and won special Oscars for two of his films, Bicycle Thieves and Shoeshine, before the foreign film category ...
...alla Volpe was made in 1966. He died in 1974. The plot Serial criminal Aldo Vanucci, known as The Fox, is in prison yet again when he hears that his young sister has matured into a beautiful young woman and is attracting a lot of attention. He claims that he will have broken out of jail by three o'clock the next day…and sure enough he manages to escape. He gets home to find that his sister, Gina, wants to become an actress. Eager to keep her on ...

sunmeilan 27.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of After The Fox (DVD)