Lady Chatterley DVD

Advantages: Flash Harry, good family fun
Disadvantages: Not as good as previous films

...a hairdresser shop as a disguise for the gang’s headquarters. Frankie Howard plays the part in the camp style suggestive of his future role in Up Pompeii. His gang is made up of Willy the Jelly-Man, Len the Lender - a bank officer and Gilbert the Wheel (Reg Varney) a driving instructor who abandons his student mid-lesson. My best loved character in the film, Flash Harry Hackett played by George Cole, is a school governor who stocks the school with equipment (slot machines) in the gym and in the library such educational and literary gems as (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Fanny Hill and other books which had been reprinted following the new Obscene Publications Act of 1959) and sets up a betting shop with unusual chips. The Directors Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat worked in partnership for many years, writing and directing such films as The Lady... Read review

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Advantages: It's full of innuendos.
Disadvantages: It's over all too soon.

...of cheese". Additional humour is also to be found at various points with reference to famous films including a pun in the opening scene of Gromit graduating from Dogwarts University (Harry Potter Hogwarts); the clothe splitting scene of the Were-Rabbit (Incredible Hulk); two cucumbers being used to form a cross (Dracula) and the classic lady /gamekeeper relationship between Wallace and Lady Totty (Lady Chatterley's Lover). These are just a few and there are so many more puns including the Smug fridge and the Botch drill. This film really is laugh a minute but it is typically British, the Americans don't always get the humour. For children and adults alike, this is an hour and a bit of amusing entertainment and I happily award it a full five stars. Voices #~#~# Wallace - Peter Sallis Gromit - None (he is mute)! Lady Campanula Tottington... Read review

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Advantages: first half good
Disadvantages: second half confusing and boring

..., rugged-looking man gone half-bald is still struggling to write the book. June Miller: It's a distortion. Henry, Look at me! Look! You can't see me or anyone as they are! I wanted Dostoyevsky! Henry's self-obsessed wife June shows up not much after Henry and Anais have gotten to know each other a little better after she accidentally finds him weeping in a dark theater while watching his movie star wife in an artsy love scene. He tries to capture her in his book, but when he lets June and Anais read what he has done, his wife feels cheated and misunderstood (see the quote above) and Anais privately tells him he has no compassion for June and cannot understand her like she, a woman, can. Anais has been writing her first published book on D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover) and she and Henry have an interesting disagreement about... Read review

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