Stop Messin' About!: The Very Best of Kenneth Williams (1996)
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 50分
演出 : Duncan Smith, Will Trotter
シノプシス
Documentary and celebration of the life and career of British comedian Kenneth Williams.
1965年、サイゴンにやって来た米軍放送の人気DJを通して間接的にベトナム戦争を描いた人間ドラマ。実在のモデル、エイドリアン・クロナウアーに扮したR・ウィリアムスのマシンガン・トークによる破天荒なDJぶりが痛快。ベトナム戦争ものとしては番外編に位置するが、戦場からの視点ではない所が興味深い。
大スター、マイケル・ジャクソンには、誰にも知られていない秘密があった。歌やダンスで世界中を魅了するマイケルは仮の姿、本当のマイケルは愛の守護神コスモから遣わされた使者、ムーンウォーカーだったのだ。ある日、子どもたちとピクニックに出掛けたマイケルは、偶然にも子どもを狙う悪の組織の存在を知り子どもたちを救うために戦う。
若いが唄も踊りもこなすスター、サリー。彼女は、性格も生き方も全くかみ合わないロンドンから来た語学生ブライアンと知り合い、恋に落ちる。そんな中、2人の間に金持ちでハンサムなマクシミリアンという貴族の青年が入ってくる。
ニューヨークに住むパプキンは人気コメディアン、ジェリー・ラングフォードの大ファン。ある日、やはり熱狂的なラングフォード・ファンであるマーシャと知り合い、2人で大胆な作戦をくわだてる。なんとラングフォードを誘拐し、替わりにパプキンがTVショーに出演しようというのだ。ラングフォードを縛りあげ、TV局に向かうパプキンだが……。
1932~33年にニューヨークで、1933~34年にロンドンで好評を得たドワイト・テイラー作のミュージカル・コメディー「陽気な離婚」の映画化で、脚色には「ラジオは笑う」「その夜」の小ジョージ・マリオン・ジュニアと「ふるさとの唄」のドロシ・ヨーストが共同し、監督には「メリケン万歳爆走の巻」「レヴュー艦隊」のマーク・サンドリッチが当たった。主役は「空中レヴュー時代」に出演したフレッド・アステアたジンジャー・ロジャースのチームで「坊やが盗まれた」「紐育・ブロードウェイ」のアリス・ブラディ、「生活の設計」「恋の手ほどき(1933)」のエドワード・エヴァレット・ホートンが共演するほか、エリック・ローズ、エリック・ブローア、ウィリアム・オースティン等が助演している。舞踏振り付けは「空中レヴュー時代」「レヴュー艦隊」のデーヴ・ゴールドで、撮影は「舗道」「お蝶夫人」のデイヴィット・エーベルで、トリック撮影は「コングの復讐」のヴァーノン・ウォーカーが担当。
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt, Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue! In this send up of the Hammer Horror movies, there are send-ups of all the horror greats from Frankenstein to Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde.
米国慰問協会のスター、ディクシーとエディ。第二次世界大戦、朝鮮戦争、ベトナムと半世紀にわたって兵士たちの慰問ショウに情熱を傾けた2人の愛憎を描いたベット・ミドラー主演の感動のヒューマン・ドラマ。
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.
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.
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.
Fall in for the first ever film in the highly successful Carry On comedy series—now an acclaimed British institution. Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey are the prankish misfits who become the hilarious bane of Army Officers existence when he makes a bet he will turn them into ‘Star Squad’ Award soldiers—or bust!
Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. Little do they know that the priest leads a double life. Then Madame Desiree and her "Birds of Paradise" arrive in the village...
From the Director of 'DEADTIME' and 'Crying Wolf' comes Cute Little Buggers! Will you let them take our women? It's Gremlins meets Hot Fuzz set in the English countryside. When hostile aliens crash land on local farmland the villagers at the summer ball get suspicious when young women start going missing. The villagers soon band together around our hero Melchoir to fend off the invaders and bring back peace to the sleepy English countryside! B-movie laughs in this creature feature from Director Tony Jopia.
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.
Two Brits—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal. Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids—revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise.
Bertram Oliphant West (also known as Bo West) wants to clear his unjustly smeared reputation. He joins the Foreign Legion, with Simpson his manservant in tow. But the fort they get posted to is full of eccentric legionnaires, and there is trouble brewing with the locals too. Unbeknown to Bo, his lady love has followed him in disguise...
Professors Vrooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts there. Lo and behold, it's right next to a caravan site where all manner of people are staying. With a randy Major owning the site, a snobbish mother, and the two professors' constant innuendos, the film ends with a sinking caravan site and a striptease performance as a replacement for the cabaret night.