Jim Dale

Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the cast.

Позднее французское средневековье, Париж конца XV века. Сюжет фильма предстает в виде истории - легенды на фоне мастерски воссозданного исторического колорита. Трое мужчин: архидиакон Собора Парижской Богоматери Клод Фролло, звонарь собора - горбун Квазимодо и поэт Пьер Гренгуар добиваются любви одной женщины - цыганки Эсмеральды, но основное соперничество возникает между Фролло и Квазимодо...

Documentary and celebration of the life and career of British comedian Kenneth Williams.

Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

Намереваясь отыскать альтернативный путь в Индию, Христофор Колумб убеждает королевскую чету Испании проспонсировать его морскую экспедицию. Но ему решает помешать турецкий султан, чья казна не в последнюю очередь формируется за счёт налогов с караванов, идущих по старому маршруту.

Adventurous Huck Finn prefers rafting on the Mississippi River rather than being a part of civilization.

An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.

A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he built. Tom immediately makes friends with pretty Alisande while becoming enemies with the evil knight Sir Mordred. It seems Mordred has joined up with the Sorcerer Merlin and they are both up to no good. It is now up to Tom to try and use 20th century technology to foil their plans.

Основатель города на Диком Западе умирает. Теперь контроль в городе должен взять кто-либо из его сыновей, один из которых – бандит, не выпускающий из рук револьвер; другой же – добропорядочный добрый семьянин, воспитывающий двух славных детей. Свою способность удержать порядок в городе они должны доказать в опасном и тяжелом соревновании, которое делает еще более тяжелым и более опасным бывший мэр города, желающий прибрать к рукам и городок и казну…

A made-for-TV retelling of the story "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," directed by Ben Rea, featuring Jim Dale as the Soldier, Freddie Jones as the destitute King, and Gloria Grahame as the Witch. Significant changes were made to the story, including reducing the number of princesses to six, and the soldier ultimately declining to marry any of the princesses due to their deceitful nature.

Приключения девятилетнего мальчика, который подружился с маленьким дракончиком, навидимым для всех остальных людей.

Трагикомедия по одноименному роману Генри Филдинга. Молодой слуга Джозеф Эндрюс верой и правдой служит сэру Томасу Буби. Но на свою беду Джозеф влюбляется в служанку, в то время как им заинтересовалась сама леди Буби. И когда он отказывает хозяйке, та решает отомстить.

Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!

London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence "Spike" Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War. But along the way Spike and his friends get involved in many amusing - and some not-so amusing - scrapes. A film adaptation of the first volume of Spike Milligan's war diaries.

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.

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.

Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.

Популярный Доктор Килмор уволен, после того как был обнаружен в компрометирующем положении на крыше дома медсестёр. Пациенты не хотят потерять его, но доктор Тинкл и главная медсестра непреклонны.

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...

A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.

Действие фильма происходит в период Французской революции 1789-1794 годов. Погрязшие в скуке английские аристократы сэр Родни Эффинг и лорд Дарси Пью находят себе достойное занятие - спасение французской знати из цепких лап гильотины. Храбрецам противостоят Камамбер, шеф тайной полиции Робеспьера, и его туповатый подручный Биде.

Эта пародия, на жанр ужасов вообще и фильмы студии Хаммер в частности, считается одним из самых удачных фильмов серии.

Стодж-сити находится во власти Рампо Кида и его банды. В это время происходит ужасная путаница: санитарного инженера Шерифа Нотта принимают за шерифа закона! Будучи добросовестным человеком, Шериф пытается помочь городу избавиться от Рампо Кида. Шерифу помогают два обстоятельства - жаждущая мести Энни Оукли и его диплом санитарного инженера...

Банда грабителей была поймана на очередном ограблении банка и приговорена к 15 годам лишения свободы. Благо награбленное они успели спрятать в дупло дерева за небольшим холмом в поле. И вот, выйдя на свободу они ринулись за награбленным. Дерево, в котором были спрятаны деньги, осталось целым, но вот незадача, местность застроили и теперь оно стоит во дворе полицейского участка…

Два бритта попадают в рабство к римлянам. При попытке покушения на Цезаря один из бриттов «случайно» убивает врагов Цезаря, и становится его личным телохранителем. Тем временем, Марк Антоний, лучший друг Цезаря, тайно влюбляется в Клеопатру, но единственный способ завоевать её сердце — это расправится с Цезарем и его верным телохранителем.

Группа некомпетентных секретных агентов послана вернуть секретный химический препарат похищенный организацией STENCH…

Фильм посвящен морским приключениям во времена наполеоновских войн.

The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, Jr.). The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy (Anne Helm) damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.

Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a secret weapon. All their drivers are very attractive women! Who's behind Glamcabs? It's open warfare and only one fleet can survive!

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

'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?

A spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the overnight '6.5 Special' the two find the train full of 1950's British pop stars only too ready to burst into song. As the presenters of the show are also on board, our heroine is assured of a spot on the following Saturday's 'Six Five Special'.

A dramatised training film for the Military Police showing the correct methods and procedures that should be used in solving a crime.

After twenty years as a struggling variety turn and then a prolific scriptwriter and television star, comic genius Marty Feldman found screen stardom with his very first Hollywood role in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. With his wife Lauretta as the power behind the throne, his rise and fall and decline is related through bittersweet memories of the past and intoxicated infidelities in the present.