Victor Maddern

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.

A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people.

An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team.

The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?

고물상을 경영하는 아버지 앨버트(Albert Steptoe: 윌프리드 브램벨 분)와 아들 해롤드(Harold Steptoe: 해리 H.코벳 분)는 하루도 조용할 날이 없다. 이번에는 아들 해롤드가 루그비클럽의 스트립 댄서인 지티와 결혼하기로 약속하면서 또 다시 소동이 일어난다. 결혼식장으로 출발하기 전 앨버트의 심술로 인해 결혼반지를 잃어버린 이들은 거름더미 속에서 반지를 찾아 온통 악취를 풍기며 결혼식을 치룬다. 식이 끝나고 신혼여행을 가게된 해롤드와 지타, 그 곁에는 고집세고 질투가 심한 앨버트가 따라 붙는다.

Three workmen assigned to dig a hole in a road for an electrical cable run into problems with local officials who believe the hole is being dug in the wrong place and should be closer to the home of a prissy fashion designer.

1910년 레이싱 자동차로 이름을 날리던 차가 불의의 사고로 폐차된다. 이 차는 아내없이 두 아이를 키우는 괴짜 발명가 카렉타커스 포트에게 넘어가게 되고, 다시 예전보다 더 멋있는 자동차로 재탄생하게 된다. 한편 우연히 두 아이인 제레미와 제미마를 만난 예쁜 아가씨 트룰리 스크럼셔스는 포트와 사랑스런 두 아이들과 함께 재탄생된 치티 치티 뱅 뱅을 타고 바다로 소풍을 가게 된다. 해변가에서 포트는 아이들에게 불가리아의 전설적인 해적 바론의 이야기를 해주기 시작한다. 차가 바다 위를 떠돌고 하늘을 날고 아이들을 모두 잡아가는 이상한 나라의 이야기였다. 이 이야기는 현실이 된다. 항상 자동차 시합에서 치티 치티 뱅 뱅에게 지던 불가리아 왕은 치티 치티 뱅 뱅에게 음모를 꾸며 자동차 시합에 나오지 못하게 하지만 발명가에 의해 다시 살아난 치티 치티 뱅 뱅을 완전히 없애려고 또 다시 음모를 꾸민다. 이 과정에서 불가리아로 떠나게 된 포트와 두 아이들 그리고 트룰리는 불가리아 왕과 대치하게 되지만 불가리아 왕은 아이들을 모두 잡아들이고 지하에 가두게 된다. 포트와 트룰리는 두 아이와 같이 갇혀있던 아이들을 구하게 되고, 불가리아 왕을 물리친다.

An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.

When the TARDIS lands in the sea off the eastern coast of England, the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria investigate a nearby beach, which seems to have an improbably large amount of sea foam as well as a major gas pipe marked “Euro Sea Gas” What is really happening at "Euro Sea Gas." Can the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria survive "The Fury from the Deep"!

Infelicitous Stephen Wallace falls in love with beautiful Wendy, who spurns his affections. He proceeds to make a pact with Satan to be able to marry the woman of his dreams, but he gets more than he bargained for.

The theft of a fortune in diamonds and the attempt by soldier of fortune Johnny Dent to outwit his pursuers who would stop at nothing to get their hands on the treasure forms the story-line. The chase reaches across the continent as Dent eludes the diamond syndicate police, a ruthless gangster, and a scheming girl in his attempt to escape.

Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.

Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is in the middle of a major conflict between the Government led by Diaz and the rebels led by Torez. When Torez is accidentally killed the rebels mistaken pick up one of the salesmen, Eric, as he looks like Torez. Eric and Ernie are promised millions to carry on the charade once the rebels take charge. However once Eric takes charge he finds himself back in danger as scheming general Carillo plans to remove the impostor from his role.

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

매리엄 모들의 미스터리 소설에 기초하여 모성애와 광기를 기묘하게 탐구하고 있는 영화. 미국인 앤 레이크는 최근 딸 버니와 함께 영국으로 이주했다. 버니를 기숙학교에 입학시키기 위해 등교한 첫날, 앤은 학교에서 교사나 사무직원들을 아무도 발견하지 못한다. 유일하게 나타난 인물은 왠지 불만에 찬 듯한 요리사로, 그녀는 자기가 아이를 잘 돌볼 테니 염려 말고 학교를 떠나라고 앤을 강제적으로 보낸다. 그런데 앤이 오후에 다시 학교로 찾아가자 요리사는 그만 뒀다고 하고 버니 역시 보이지 않는다. 학교의 직원들은 아무도 버니를 보지 못했다고 하고, 기록도 남아있는 것이 없다. 앤은 오빠 스티븐의 도움을 받아 버니의 행방을 필사적으로 찾지만, 심지어 경찰도 버니가 존재했다는 흔적을 찾아내지 못한다.

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins

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.

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

2차 대전 말, 연합군은 미 사령관 아이젠 하워의 지휘하에 독일과의 전쟁을 종결시킬 작전을 구상한다. 그것은 유럽의 중심지이자 프랑스의 해안지방인 노르망디에 극비의 상륙작전을 개시하는 것. 이러한 연합군의 작전 계획을 염탐한 독일군은 2차대전 최대의 격전지인 프랑스 노르망디를 사수하고자 경계를 더욱 강화한다. 치밀한 작전 계획을 준비한 연합군은 작전 성공을 위해 비가 오는 악천후 속에서도 훈련을 거듭하고 병사들 사이에서는 서서히 긴장감이 감돌기 시작한다. 1944년 6월 6일 새벽, 드디어 런던의 연합군 최고 사령부는 노르망디 상륙작전의 개시를 알리는데...

18세기 영국. 군함 데피앙트 호의 수병들은 상관인 스콧 대령에게 학대를 받는다. 함장인 크로포드는 어떻게 해서든지 스콧 대령의 행위를 멈추고 병사들의 불만을 누그러뜨리려 하지만 스콧 대령이 병사 한 명을 죽게 만들면서 반란의 기운이 점점 더 커져 가고 비 이생적인 조건과 질 낮은 음식, 가죽으로 된 채칙과 매질 등 가혹한 행위로 인하여 마침내 선상의 반란이 걷잡을 수 없을 정도로 커져만 가는데...

Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're the equal of their male counterparts. Hardly a feminist masterpiece, but fans will relish the nightmare court-martial in which Drake plays all the parts

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.

'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?

1947년. 제2차 대전 종전 후의 혼란이 온 세계를 흔들고 그런 사이에 억압받던 민족들이 오랜 질곡을 벗어나 새로운 나라를 세우기 시작하였다. 이 무렵 조국없는 민족이라 손가락질 받으며 박해를 받던 유태인에게도 그들의 오랜 꿈을 실현시킬 수 있는 기회가 오게 되었다. 그러나 이스라엘 건국을 정면에서 반대하는 아랍 여러 나라의 동향에 신경을 쓰는 영국은 키프러스 섬에 수용소를 설치하고 팔레스타인을 향해 몰려드는 유태인의 발을 일단 이곳에 묶어 놓는다. 어느날 키프러스 섬에 알리라는 한 사나이가 어둠을 타고 상륙해 유태인 수용소에 잠입한다. 그는 전 영국군 장교로 유태인 지하조직의 간부이다. 알리는 영국군 유태인 이동증명서를 위조하고 여객선 '엑소더스호'를 항구에 대기시킨 다음 백주에 당당히 2800여명의 동포를 탈출시키기 위해 이 배에 승선케 한다. 뒤늦게 이 사실을 안 영국군은 황급히 엑소더스호에 정선 명령을 내리고 그러자 액소더스의 모든 유태인들은 알리의 지도아래 전원 단식 투쟁을 한다. 이러기를 100시간, 마침내 영국군은 들끊는 세계 여론에 무릎을 꿇고 정선 명령을 취소한다. 전 유태인의 희망과 꿈을 싣고 조상의 땅 팔레스타인을 향해 힘차게 출발하는 '액소더스 호' 그리고...

Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues, confronts and brings down a gang of vehicle hi-jackers.

When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist.

Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his "legionnaires" at their post and not rampaging through the local countryside. The McGaffey brothers (Benny Hill and Tommy Steele) create havoc with their light-fingers and light-loving with the local girls, whilst Smithy (Johnny Briggs) pines for his sweetheart.

A medical student who is thrown out of his university, ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his confidence with a relationship with a fashion model.

1941년, 영국 해군은 독일의 유보트와 레이더가 수송로를 장악하는 바람에 군수품을 전달받지 못해 어려움을 겪는다. 그해 5월, 영국 정보국은 독일 비스마르크호가 북대서양으로 출항하려고 한다는 정보를 입수하고 조나단 셰퍼드 함장(케네스 무어 분)에게 비스마르크호를 격침시키라는 임무를 내린다. 아내와 함정을 잃은 상실감으로 괴로워하던 셰퍼드 함장은 새로운 임무를 맡고 최선을 다하기로 결심한다. 또한 대적할 인물이 예전에 자신의 함정을 파괴한 독일 해독이라는 사실을 알고는 이번엔 반드시 이길 거라 각오를 다진다. 영국은 대서양의 해군력을 총동원하여 비스마르크호의 출항을 저지하려 온힘을 쏟아 붓는다. 전함과 순양함 등 가용 가능한 전력을 집결시키고 철통같은 레이다망을 동원하여 비스마르크호의 항로를 추적한다. 몇 번의 교전으로 영국군 거함 후드호를 격침하고 순양함들에 막대한 피해를 입힌 비스마르크호는 영국군을 더욱 긴장시키고 이들은 어떻게 해서든지 비스마르크호를 막기 위해 안간힘을 쓰는데...

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population.

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.

An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.

The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.

A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.

A GI deserter frames a girl for killing a blackmailer, and holds her captive while seeking gems.

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.

Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'

A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence heads a stellar cast, including such reliables as Victor Maddern, Norman Rossington, Conrad Phillips and Reginald Hearne. The plot centers around acrobat Peter Arne, falsely accused of murder. Escaping from the authorities, Arne hides out in a rustic inn, allowing first-time director (and former cinematographer) Robert Day ample opportunity for dark, menacing shadows and sinister underlighting. The genuine murderer is revealed just seconds before the culprit's death. Stranger's Meeting was held back from release until Robert Day's "official" directorial debut, The Green Man, had made the rounds.

Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.

After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.

Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.

A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.

A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...

영국 공군의 다코다기가 비행중에 실종된다. 실종된 다코다기에는 공군중장 존 하디를 비롯, 8명의 승객과 5명의 승무원이 타고 있었다. 하지만 비행기 실종사건은 미리 예견돼 있었다. 하디 중장이 마지막 비행을 떠나기전 친구 로버트슨 집에서 개최한 파티에서 해군중령 린지가 참석해 비행기 실종을 말했기 때문. 린지는 이 자리에서 자신이 전날 꿈속에서 다코다기를 보았으며 그 속에 하디중장등 8명의 승객과 5명의 승무원이 있었고 비행기는 곧 폭풍우로 길을 잃어 일본의 한 어촌에 불시착하게 된다고 얘기한다. 린지의 설명에 참석한 사람들은 모두 웃지만 마지막 순간에 동행하게 된 로버트슨은 웬지 불길한 예감을 느낀다. 당초 두명이던 승객이 여섯명이 되고 다시 여덟명이 되면서 로버트슨의 불안감은 극에 달하지만 오키나와에서 두명의 병사가 무사히 내리자 안도의 숨을 내쉰다. 하지만 미처 말하지 않은 두 명이 더 타게됐다는 매켄지 대위의 설명에 로버트슨은 더욱 불길한 예감이 들어 절대로 그들을 태워주어서는 안된다고 주장한다.

Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.

Major Charles Carrington (David Niven), is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe, he also face two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act on his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A mans career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations, all hang in the balance.

A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.

During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.

A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.

After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.

A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's progress while a lethal hunt for him goes on.

In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.

When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.

The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?