Two boys, Pedro (Richard “Cheech” Marin) and Man (Tommy Chong) search for some marijuana to aid them in the formation of a pop group, and…
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This marvellously entertaining, tongue-in-cheek musical romp stars Frank Ifield as Dave Kelly, a talented young Australian singer who moves to London in search of his…
Frankie Howerd dons a toga here for a film version of his TV series based on the life of Roman slave Lurcio. There are gorgeous…
In the second of the new Up . . . series, Frankie Howerd plays Lurkalot, a humble 12th-century serf who sells chastity belts in the…
British Naval officer Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) has an uncontrollable passion for building guided missiles that are constantly going off at the wrong time and…
On the second Monday in September, teacher Sylvia Barrett (Sandy Dennis) brings her youth and ideals to Calvin Coolidge High School which stands bleakly on…
This 1972 British comedy film is the third film spin-off from the TV series Up Pompeii! (the previous film being Up the Chastity Belt (1971)…
Based on a successful novel by Nell Dunn (daughter of wealthy industrialist Sir Philip Dunn), Up the Junction was first turned into a BBC television play…
Seymour (Frank Corsentino) is a nerdy virgin who works in a dead-end job in the catering industry and spends most of his waking hours dreaming…
Definitely not to be confused with the Pixar cartoon, Russ Meyer’s last-but-one film for the cinema was this, and it went further than he ever…
Bob (Barry Stokes) and Maggie (Penny Meredith) inherit a country cottage in a sleepy English village from her late aunt, but job opportunities in the…
It must have been very frustrating for the cast of accomplished British comedy performers, let alone for international stars Claudia Cardinale and Mylène Demongeot, to…
Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) and Wardell Franklin (Bill Cosby) are customers in a nightclub that is held up by thieves and the duo are robbed…
Cowboys were all the rage in the US in 1980, thanks to that summer’s smash hit at the box office, Urban Cowboy, starring John Travolta and…
Five criminals with widely diverse rap sheets are brought together in a police holding cell to appear in a line-up. As it happens, none of…
Owing something to Fred Schepisi’s Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), this is a powerful period drama which plays like a New Zealand Western film. Te Wheke…