From simple slapstick to complex rib ticklers, The Golden Age Of British
Comedy will leave you in stitches.
Featuring 10 classics from the 50s and 60s guaranteed to keep you laughing.
A Home Of Your Own
This noisy but wordless comedy of errors follows a group of bumbling builders as
they attempt to construct a housing block while taking endless cups of tea. From
Ronnie Barker’s frustrated attempts to lay concrete to Bill
Fraser’s attempt to beat his fellow workers to the toilet, the incompetent
labourers inspire a series of surreal sight gags.
Double Bunk
When newly weds Jack (Ian Carmichael and Peggy (Janette Scott) face eviction,
they are duped into taking refuge in a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the
engine, along with their friends Sid (Sid James) and Sandra (Liz Fraser), they
decide to move to a better location. However as fog descends they lose all sense
of direction and end up in France without fuel and supplies.
Futtocks End
A weekend gathering at the decaying country home of the eccentric General
Futtock (Ronnie Barker) produces a series of saucy mishaps between staff and
guests. This ‘silent’ film uses music, sound effects and incoherent
mutterings in the place of dialogue, as the bumbling and lewd General competes
with his equally lecherous butler (Michael Hordern) in vain attempts to win the
attentions of a beautiful short-skirted houseguest.
The Goon Show Movie
Spearheaded by Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, is one of the greatest comedy
teams of all time. Here, the classic radio troupe star in a hilarious caper
involving a secret formula, an absent minded professor, shifty crooks and
the army.
The Horse’s Mouth
A somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of
his artistic vision, much to the chagrin of others.
Ladies Who Do
Led by Mrs Merryweather (Dandy Nicholls), a group of charladies speculate on the
stockmarkets, using information gleaned from tips they find in office wastepaper
baskets.
Light Up The Sky
Benny Hill and Tommy Steele enjoy being young, free and single in wartime London
between shifts operating a searchlight to look out for Nazi bombers. Stalwart
British comic actors Ian Carmichael and Dick Emery play their comrades
in arms.
On The Beat
Norman wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height
test. One day he gets out his father's old uniform and “walks the beat”.
This leads to a level of chaos that only Norman could cause.
The Smallest Show On Earth
A young couple inherit an old dilapidated cinema in a small English town and
work against the odds to restore it to its former glory.
Trouble In Store
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he
has ambition, he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays.
Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love, with one of the shop
girls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to
foil the robbers.