DVD: Cecil Parker

DVD: Cecil Parker

DVD:

Cecil Parker

Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns

Paramount, 1999

A Timeless Classic Comedy Full of Laughs
I purchased this dvd based on the reviews and was not disappointed. This is a gem of a comedy! It has it all - jokes, physical comedy, musical comedy and is good clean fun for the whole family. One would think this role was made for Danny Kaye (and perhaps it ...

The Ladykillers

Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker

Starz / Anchor Bay, 2002

...humor of the finest kind
There is only one "The Ladykillers" and this is the British one from 1955 lensed by Alexander Mackendrick. It is definitely not the one remade in 2004 by Ethan and Joel Coen! A charming and well worth watching criminal comedy of its best, with marker jokes, witty ...

It Happened to Jane

Doris Day, Jack Lemmon

Sony Pictures, 2005

Movie Great but DVD POOR QUALITY
While the movie was entertaining, picture clarity and sound fine, the DVD is either defective or just made poorly. It worked for several viewings, then trouble began -- in order to playback, the DVD would have to be reinserted many times. My player is not the problem ...

Frankenstein (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)

Colin Clive, Mae Clarke

Universal Studios, 2006

Innocence and sensitivity have no place in this world
Classic story of the mad scientist and the monster that stole his last name. Bela Lugosi turned this role down because it contained no lines. Lucky for Karloff, who beautifully conveyed the part with an engaging sensitivity while maintaining an ultimate level of ...

Agatha Christie Collection featuring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple (A Caribbean Mystery / Murder Is Easy / ...

Helen Hayes, Barnard Hughes

Warner Home Video, 2006

Helen Hayes, Olivia de Havilland
All of these mysteries are fun. The only negative is that "Murder is Easy" is not a Miss Marple mystery and doesn't really star Helen Hayes--her role is only a cameo. The real stars of that one are Olivia de Havilland and Bill Bixby. The other two are Miss Marple ...

Indiscreet

Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman

Republic Pictures, 2001

A very good and very charming romance comedy
If you want to see a light, funny, and witty, romance comedy, you've come to the right film. Bergman is at a beautiful, wiser, and charming 43 and Grant is as handsome as ever. He hardly ever changed did he? The dialog is swift, clever, timeless, and delivered with ...

The Man in the White Suit

Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood

Starz / Anchor Bay, 2002

What if "saving the environment" meant losing your job?
Civilization should thrive on progress! But when a scientist in a textile mill produces a white suit made from a fabric that will never wear out and never get dirty, society is suddenly not so sure that one particular progress is of benefit. Actually, it's more of a ...

Guns at Batasi

Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins

20th Century Fox, 2006

Excellent military suspense drama
I bought this film due to seeing it pop up on Amazon's recommendations. I'd never even heard of it before but I was amazed to find that it's a superlative film. I was expecting standard British stiff-upper-lip fare that the British did so well in the 1950s and '60s, ...

Frankenstein (Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection)

Colin Clive, Mae Clarke

Universal Studios, 1999

Innocence and sensitivity have no place in this world
Classic story of the mad scientist and the monster that stole his last name. Bela Lugosi turned this role down because it contained no lines. Lucky for Karloff, who beautifully conveyed the part with an engaging sensitivity while maintaining an ultimate level of ...

Under Capricorn

Ronald Adam, Ingrid Bergman

Image Entertainment, 2003

One of the unknown and nevertheless one of the best films of Hitchcock
By some thoughtless prejudices "Under Capricorn" is rejected among the people who love violence and action as an "untypical" or "tedious" film of Hitchcock which lacks for suspense and goose-flesh (Hitchcock himself most cynically and deliberately contributed to ...

The Lady Vanishes

Emile Boreo, Mary Clare

Delta, 1999

Screwball comedy + Thriller + Romance = Great Fun
This is a very funny, totally enjoyable movie, that's sure to please almost anyone. The cast is first rate. Michael Redgrave is handsome, funny, and totally charming in his first major film role. Margaret Lockwood is more than just a beautiful screwball comedian; ...

Caesar and Cleopatra [Region 2]

Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh

To be in Bernard Shaw 's mood!
Claude Rains as Caesar and Viviane Leigh as Cleopatra star this dazzling story that rides between the drama and comedy. A splendid occasion to crown once more the corrosive humor that literally permeates a good part of the dialogues. There is humor but also a ...

The Lady Vanishes - Criterion Collection

Emile Boreo, Mary Clare

Criterion, 1998

Screwball comedy + Thriller + Romance = Great Fun
This is a very funny, totally enjoyable movie, that's sure to please almost anyone. The cast is first rate. Michael Redgrave is handsome, funny, and totally charming in his first major film role. Margaret Lockwood is more than just a beautiful screwball comedian; ...

Swiss Family Robinson [Region 2]

John Mills, Dorothy McGuire

Buena Vista Distribution Company

Wonderful World of Disney
I grew up watching this movie during the Wonderful World of Disney night on TV. This was one of my favorite of all the "old" Disney movies. It has all the characteristics of great movies; trouble, adaptation, resolution, good vs. evil, and a happy ending. Watching ...

Circus of Fear

Christopher Lee, Leo Genn

Blue Underground, 2003

PRETTY GOOD MYSTERY THRILLER.....
I was hugely disappointed that this wasn't at all what I hoped it was...that being a Euro-shocker along the lines of "Circus of Horrors". What I found instead is an OK mystery based on a novel by Edgar Wallace that's fairly engrossing with some neat surprises. After an ...