Terry-Thomas

  • Richard Quine – How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

    Richard Quine1961-1970ComedyUSA
    How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
    How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

    Jack Lemmon is a happily unmarried man with all the creature comforts one could desire including a wonderful butler who takes care of all his material needs. At a bachelor party for a friend, Lemmon gets drunk and wakes up married to an Italian woman who speaks nearly no English. It totally alters his life. He even changes the cartoon he writes and shifts it from a secret agent to a household comedy. When he begins to have trouble with all of these changes he starts to plot that at least his secret agent cartoon will return to order and plans, in his daily comic strip, killing his wife. When she disappears, the cartoons are used as evidence at his trial.Read More »

  • Bob Kellett – Spanish Fly (1976)

    1971-1980Bob KellettComedyUnited Kingdom

    On the beautiful island of Minorca, Sir Percy de Courcy finds himself once again penniless. Since the disreputable Sir Percy isn’t exactly willing to work for a living, this means he must concoct some sort of scam to maintain his luxurious lifestyle.Read More »

  • Mario Zampi – The Naked Truth (1957)

    1951-1960ComedyMario ZampiUnited Kingdom

    Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose…Read More »

  • Don Sharp – Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon AKA Those Fantastic Flying Fools AKA Blast Off (1967)

    1961-1970ComedyDon SharpSci-FiUnited Kingdom

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    The film’s full title of Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon is a tad misleading as it is only inspired by Verne’s writing in general, rather than by anything specific that he wrote. Once that point is cleared up, one can sit back and enjoy an amusing romp of a movie. The typically contrived plot concerns a suddenly bankrupt Phineas T. Barnum (Burl Ives) making an escape from his creditors to England, where he becomes the prime mover in a plan to launch a rocket to the moon. On the side of the angels are a German explosives expert (Gert Fröbe), an idealistic young American (Troy Donahue) with a revolutionary rocket design and the well intentioned Duke of Barset (Dennis Price).Read More »

  • Robert Hamer & Hal E. Chester & Cyril Frankel – School for Scoundrels (1960)

    1951-1960ClassicsComedyCyril FrankelHal E. ChesterRobert HamerUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Henry Palfrey, new pupil at the College of Lifemanship at Yeovil, recounts his depressing history to the principal, Mr. Potter. The proprietor of a small family business, he is bullied in his office by his chief clerk; he is humiliated by head waiters; he has been tricked by two second-hand car salesmen into buying a decrepit and costly wreck of a car; he has lost his girl, April Smith, to the insufferable Raymond Delauney; and he has allowed Delauney to beat him at tennis.Read More »

  • John Boulting – I’m All Right Jack (1959)

    1951-1960ClassicsComedyJohn BoultingUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.Read More »

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