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Over 10 hours of vintage comedy in a fabulous set. Six features plus bonus interview with Liz Fraser and a short comedy bonus.

Liz Fraser: Her Life in Comedy

The iconic British star Liz Fraser discusses her life in film with comedy historian Robert Ross in this exclusive, open and frank interview. Liz then introduces the film 'The Night We Dropped a Clanger'.
The Night We Dropped a Clanger (1959)
A British intelligence agent (Brian Rix) and a look-alike airman confuse Germans while investigating buzz bombs in World War II France.
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn (1956)
Inspector Quilt of Scotland Yard attempts to retrieve a 'Mukkinese Battle-horn' stolen from a London museum. Along the way he meets characters not dissimilar to Eccles, Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister from 'The Goon Show'.
What a Whopper (1960)
Adam Faith stars in this tale about a struggling writer who fakes photographs of the Loch Ness monster.
The Butler's Dilemma (1943)
Wimpish Rodney Playfair (Richard Hearne) is persuaded, by a promise to erase his gambling debts, to impersonate an old manservant named Chapman for a few weeks in order to unwittingly provide an alibi for an accomplished thief.
Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1942)
The characters of Gert and Daisy were played by Florence Elsie Waters (1893-1990) and Doris Ethel Waters (l900-l978). This particular film was lost for many years and is newly restored to a complete version, utilising a 16mm print from a private collection and an original 35mm copy. This is the second of three wartime comic-propaganda films starring the beloved radio characters Gert and Daisy, who at a particularly bleak point in the war roll up their sleeves and set about denuding the street on which they live of most of its metal fittings and other material suitable for salvage ("Straight from boozer to cruiser!"), about which they sing a song.
Tons of Trouble (1956)
Mr. Pastry is a kindly but haphazard caretaker in a block of flats looking after two old boilers that need much attention, named Mavis and Ethel. Wily milkman William Hartnell is after the caretaker's Job but learns the hard way - after much hilarity - that some things are best left alone.
Comedy Coctail (1951)
EJ Fancey presents a cavalcade of some of Charlie Chaplin's most famous comedies.
Gert and Daisy's Week-End (1942)
Legends of British music hall and radio, Elsie and Doris Waters are at their very best in this hilarious wartime comedy farce. As the Blitz rages, Gert and Daisy volunteer to escort a rather lively group of evacuee children out of London to the safety of the English countryside. Used to the hardships of London's East End and sheltering from the bombs in Underground stations every night, the luxuries of Little Pipham Hall seem like another world. Soon, the grand house is in uproar and the appearance of a couple of jewel thieves intent on stealing Lady Plumtree's diamonds sets the scene for a grand farce.
Your Money or Your Wife (1960)
A young couple find out they are to inherit a fortune and they immediately go on a spending spree. However, it isn't until after they have spent a considerable sum that they discover the inheritance is to be paid in weekly instalments rather than as a lump sum! The only way they can get their hands on the entire amount is if the husband dies or they divorce. Rather than do this, they decide to take in lodgers to their sizeable home. Unfortunately this is not as simple as it seems, as some of the lodgers turn out to be somewhat eccentric!

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Arthur Bowman's business is in a mess. His agency, 'Miss London Limited', supplies visiting troops with female escorts. But due to the nature of his female employees, he is receiving fewer and fewer bookings.

Then in walks Terry (Evelyn Dall), a young woman who announces that she has just inherited a share in the business from her uncle. She shakes up the organisation and sets about finding lively girls to employ while she and Arthur (Arthur Askey) find that romance is blossoming between them.

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A near-lifeless body is recovered from the Thames, shot in the back.

Science reporter Delaney (Gene Nelson) identifies the victim as Stephen Rayner (Peter Arne) - a nuclear physicist who works at a nearby research institute but when he visits the institute he's shocked to find Rayner alive and well! Hot on the story of his career, Delaney is plunged into a drama of international espionage and the all-too-real threat of nuclear destruction!

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Returning a lost wallet to its rightful owner gains honest Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) a job as a chauffeur for Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran).

Roman is a local gangster who treats his wife as badly as he treats his enemies, and Chuck is soon plotting to help Lorna (Michèle Morgan) escape the clutches of her madman husband.

Sir Percy (Barry K. Barnes) - alias the Scarlet Pimpernel - is being pressured by his wife, Marguerite (Sophie Stewart), to retire from his daring escapades. The French still want the Pimpernel's head, however, and so set a trap for him involving the bold rescue of a Spanish actress and her lover!

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At the end of the Second World War, David (Edwin Richfield) and his Australian friend Johnny (Don Sharp) return to David's Suffolk village to find the community spent and demoralized. Gradually, however, they gather support for David's scheme to enter a yachting race with a converted fishing smack.

Winning it could prove to be a lifeline for the village...

Fred Astaire stars with Paulette Goddard in this 1940 musical romantic comedy. The plot features rival trumpet players vying for the attentions of the same girl. The classic jazz soundtrack is provided by Artie Shaw and his band who play themselves in the film.

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A charming romantic comedy with Fred and Emily Hill (Henry Kendall and Joan Barry) inheriting a fortune that gives them the opportunity to shed their boring existence in London and live a life that until now they could only dream about.

So together they decide to book a world cruise; something they had always wanted to do but could never afford. With all their troubles behind them, or so they think, they embark on their voyage without a care in the world. But it is a very different life on board a cruise liner from the one they've been used to at home. The people are different... they're not so friendly, and some are so snooty they don't even talk. But undeterred they make the most of their time on the high seas and cocooned in their new life of privilege find themselves getting that romantic feeling again, although the results of this long forgotten pastime lead to comical consequences.

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Richard Hearne (Mr. Pastry) stars in this 1951 Nettlefold production made at Walton Studios. Directed by the ever present Maclean Rodgers and written by Michael Pertwee from a play by Veron Sylvaine. Typical Mr. Pastry, a mixture of the "littleman" and slapstick not unlike the late Norman Wisdom.

The woman owner of a dress shop gambles the shop away to her bookie who inherits not only the shop but Mr. Pastry (the manager) and his assistant Miss Penny (Petula Clark). Roles are reversed in this caper and all ends well...

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The ever-suave David Niven and legendary Hollywood actress Loretta Young take centre stage in the 1939 movie Eternally Yours, a romantic comedy drama in which Niven plays the role of a magician who is suspected by his wife (played by Loretta Young) of pulling more than rabbits out of his hat! The

Niven-Young silver screen partnership is truly magical as the two battle to save their onscreen marriage. Young believes that her magician husband's career is getting in the way of their marriage. She becomes jealous of his professional status and popularity and soon becomes convinced that he has other things hidden up his sleeve.

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Adapted from Arthur Pinero's relentlessly popular stage farce 'The Magistrate', 'Those Were the Days' was a perfect early vehicle for the comedic brilliance of Will Hay. Hay's feature-length debut is a typically entertaining study of the upstanding but ineffectual magistrate, Mr.

Poskett (Will Hay), while a youthful John Mills is the 20-year-old stepson who must pretend to be 15 to preserve the secret of his mother's falsified age; Angela Baddeley and veteran character-comedians Claude Allister, H.F. Maltby and George Graves are among an impressive supporting cast.

A young man joins the Auxiliary Fire Service in Blitz-era London. He soon finds himself part of a brave and dedicated team of volunteers who constantly risk their lives in the burning streets of the bomb-battered city...

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Major Bright (Basil Radford) and Captain Early (Naunton Wayne) are two hapless intelligence officers in the British army in post war Germany.

Sent back to England for a spot of leave they fail to notice that their new batman is actually war criminal Otto Fisch (Maurice Denham) and when he vanishes the two officers are quickly demobbed. Back on Civvy Street our two heroes set up a private detective agency, 'Bright and Early'. When they are invited to a weekend country house party for a cricket match they stumble across a robbery plot involving a diamond that Fisch has stolen. Will the two detectives finally catch Fisch and recover the diamond?

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The peaceful village of Dolwyn is known for its friendly folk and its simple ways. But this idyllic retreat in North Wales is about to be thrown into utter turmoil thanks to the arrival of a ruthless water company.

Due to geological difficulties the only way to complete their planned reservoir is to flood the village of Dolwyn. The campaign is lead by an embittered local who has returned from the big city and is intent on destroying the place he once called home. Are the village residents capable of fighting the industrialists and saving their home? Or is this truly the last days of Dolwyn?

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Luigi (Cesar Romero), the owner of a Soho gaming club, falls for Barbara (Kay Kendall), a beautiful socialite whose husband is a compulsive gambler.

As their romance blossoms Luigi finds his former girlfriend murdered - with the evidence pointing in Barbara's direction! Under suspicion and on the run, he must find someone to help him before his luck runs out for good...