Derek Francis

Compilation of classic clips, featuring the best performances from across the much-loved comedian's long BBC career, including examples of Emery's best-known slapstick routines and catchphrases. All the greatest clips from Dick Emery's long-running BBC career - a chance for fans both old and new to see what a huge contribution Emery made to contemporary slapstick comedy. All the classic characters appear: the father and son skinheads (with Roy Kinnear), "Oooh! You Are Awful", and a plethora of slapstick Lords, little old ladies, vicars and schoolmasters.

Carolina, que se va a casar con Sir Ralph, elige a su hermana Bárbara como dama de honor. Pero Bárbara acaba seduciendo a Ralph.

The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.

A young Eskimo boy accidentally gets hit by a mysterious ray during a secret British experiment and finds that he is now electrified.

Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.

Michael Palin interpreta a un campesino del medievo que tratará de matar a un monstruo que está arrasando los pueblos allá por donde pasa.

Un sacerdote excomulgado funda un culto satánico que practica clandestinamente en lo que parece un convento católico de cara al exterior. Un hombre que hace años entregó a su hija a dicho culto busca, arrepentido, la ayuda de un escritor experto en satanismo para conseguir liberarla.

A young woman looking into the disappearance of her fiance discovers that the last place he was seen was at a very strange motel.

A vampire terrorizes a quiet English town.

A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series of murders follows.

A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.

The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.

A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about the staff—they all look very similar. To top it all off, the weather seems to be having an adverse affect on the Hotel's foundations.

A gang of thieves plan to make their fortune by stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital. They assume disguises and infiltrate the hospital, but everything doesn't go according to plan. The hypochondriac consultant Sir Bernard Cutting, Matron and the doctors and nurses at Finisham have a habit of getting in the way.

Alex Bolt ha sido galardonado con el premio Nobel por haber creado el "unispeak", un idioma concebido para que sea adoptado a nivel internacional. El gobierno decide financiar una estatua de Bolt que esculpirá su esposa, escultora prestigiosa. Pero ésta se encuentra dolida porque su esposo la tiene abandonada, así que decide vengarse realizando una estatua de su marido desnudo.

Una rica ama de casa de edad madura, cuyo matrimonio está naufragando, recibe las atenciones de un joven mientras va de compras por Londres.

En 1860, un personaje tacaño y malhumorado que odia la Navidad, Ebenezer Scrooge, detesta a la gente, explota en su banco a su empleado Bob Cratchit y a sus clientes, y tiene un áspero tratamiento hacia su propio sobrino y conocidos. En la víspera de Navidad es visitado por el fantasma de su antiguo socio, Jacob Marley, quien le dice que tres espíritus lo visitarán a lo largo de la noche. Fue nominada en 1971 a cuatro premios Óscar: a la mejor dirección de arte, al mejor diseño de vestuario, a la mejor canción original (por la canción «Thank You Very Much», de Leslie Bricusse) y a la mejor banda sonora. Albert Finney (el protagonista) ganó el Globo de oro al mejor actor de Comedia o musical en 1971.

The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called "The Wit to Woo". The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches, and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble

Moon (Michael Latimer) is a mercenary who joins forces with two crooked cops in an attempt to steal 90 million dollars in gold from an Arab country decimated by political chaos. Sex, violence and mayhem accompany the group of double-crossing heavies who covet the purloined loot. A bevy of females willingly submit to seduction, and a sadistic homosexual murderer trails Moon and his malevolent gang for the gold in this compelling crime drama.

Un ex ejecutivo londinense contrata a una hermosa chica húngara para un pase de modelos, sin saber que la joven se ha enterado de un complot para asesinar a alguien y la persiguen peligrosos criminales. (FILMAFFINITY)

Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so when they decide to take them on a holiday to Paradise Camp, they think they're off to a nudist colony—but they couldn't be more wrong, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine.

El popular Dr. Kilmore es despedido después de ser descubierto en una situación comprometida en la azotea de la casa de las enfermeras. Los pacientes están decididos a no perderlo.

Phineas T. Barnum y sus amigos financian el primer vuelo a la luna pero se encuentran con que la empresa está un poco por encima de sus posibilidades. Intentan lanzar su cohete a la órbita con un enorme cañón construido en la ladera de una montaña galesa, pero los problemas de dinero, los espías y los saboteadores hacen que el plan esté condenado al fracaso antes de empezar ...

A principios del siglo XX, en la Rusia zarista, Rasputín, un monje de origen campesino con mirada salvaje, demuestra su misterioso poder salvando la vida de una mujer y pidiendo vino y mujeres a modo de compensación. Pronto Rasputín usará su encanto maléfico y sus poderes para transformarse en un ser manipulador y violento. Cada vez más feroz, más sensual y más tortuoso, el monje de modales rudos se adentrará en la sofisticada clase alta de la sociedad rusa hasta tratar a la misma zarina.

Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town of Tinmouth. After causing chaos at a local council meeting and causing the demolition of a new house he tries to organise a beauty pageant. A slapstick tale of corruption in high and low places

The story of Ted and Jackie, two London kids who decide to run away to Liverpool and, from there, stow away on a ship bound for Jamaica - the home of Jackie's estranged father.

The TARDIS crew take up residence near Rome in 64AD, where Ian and Barbara are kidnapped by slave traders, and the Doctor's imitation of Maximus Pettulian sees him taken to the court of Emperor Nero where he inadvertently plays a part in deciding the course of history...

Tras la muerte de Ligeia (Elizabeh Shepherd) su marido Verden Fell (Vincent Price) la entierra en una abadía, a pesar de la oposición de un sacerdote. Años después, en una cacería del zorro, la pelirroja Rowena (Shepherd) conoce a Verden e inmediatamente se siente atraída por él, sin detenerse a pensar en su extraña e inquietante conducta.

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.

The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.

A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.

A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.

A self-employed lorry driver is determined to find the criminals responsible for hijacking him.

When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic center, only Emma Mannering's corset shop stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends his unscrupulous assistant Ed Crayshaw to "fix" things, but instead, he's double-crossed.

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?

A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.

El Capitan Collier llega a un pueblo costero inglés con la intención de investigar un caso de contrabando. Allí descubre que los lugareños viven asustados por los fantasmas del pantano. Pronto Collier empieza a sospechar que el contrabando, los fantasmas y el enigmático párroco del pueblo, el padre Blyss, forman parte de la misma conspiración...

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Arson is the way out for a failing cosmetics company.

Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.

Johnny Bannion se ha pasado los tres últimos años en prisión tramando el robo más importante de su carrera. Cuando sale de la cárcel, lleva a cabo su plan. Entierra el botín en el campo, pero es arrestado antes de poder revelarle el escondrijo a su banda.