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The Renown Pictures Comedy Collection: Volume 2 (DVD)
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Collection of British comedy films. In the Second World War feature
'The Night We Dropped a Clanger' (1959) British Wing Commander
Blenkinsop (Brian Rix) is due to carry out a top-secret operation
in occupied France in order to uncover information about the flying
bomb. To outwit the Nazis, the RAF employs Aircraftsman Arthur
Atwood (also Rix) as Blenkinsop's double but the two get mixed up
and it is left to the decoy to complete the mission. In 'The Case
of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn' (1956) a Mukkinese battle-horn is
stolen from the Metropolitan Museum. Superintendent Quilt (Peter
Sellers) and Sergeant Brown (Spike Milligan) investigate the
robbery, meeting a number of eccentric characters along the way. In
'What a Whopper' (1961) struggling writer Tony Blake (Adam Faith)
and his bohemian artist flatmates are threatened with eviction from
their house in Chelsea. To raise the cash, they devise a
hare-brained scheme to travel to Loch Ness, fake an appearance of
the famed monster therein, and write a bestselling book about it.
What could possibly go wrong? In 'The Butler's Dilemma' (1943)
Rodney Playfair (Richard Hearne) is made to impersonate a butler in
exchange for having his gambling debts written off. However, he is
really providing an alibi for a thief... In 'Gert and Daisy Clean
Up' (1942) the title characters (Elsie and Doris Waters) do their
best to help the war effort by rounding up salvage metal and
foiling a racketeering plot. 'Tons of Trouble' (1956) follows
caretaker Mr. Pastry (Hearne) as he gets himself into all sorts of
calamities looking after his beloved boilers Mavis and Ethel. In
'Gert and Daisy's Weekend' (1942) the two East End sisters
volunteer to escort a group of evacuee children out of Blitz-torn
London into the safety of the countryside. All kinds of mayhem,
mischief and misunderstandings ensue as the motley troupe arrives
at the grand Little Pipham Hall, presided over by the imposing Lady
Plumtree (Annie Esmond). 'Your Money Or Your Wife' (1960) follows
married couple Pelham (Donald Sinden) and Gay Butterworth (Peggy
Cummins) as they unexpectedly run into money troubles. In advance
of Gay receiving an inheritance, the newly-weds decide to splash
out to celebrate. It is only after this that they discover they
will be given the money in weekly instalments unless the couple
divorce or Pelham dies. They plan to divorce and remarry but will
their scheme pay off? The collection also includes a documentary on
English actress Liz Fraser entitled 'Liz Fraser - Her Life in
Comedy' and the short 'Comedy Cocktail' (1951) in which Edwin J.
Fancey presents clips from some of Charlie Chaplin's comedies.
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