Benny Hill

That naughty boy Benny Hill is at it again in this 58-minute compilation of his best TV routines. Benny is seen as gangster Fingers McNee, the most inept bank robber in British crime history; as Dr. Octor, who can't seem to keep his hands off his curvaceous nurse; as Cupid, wings and all; as a sailor home from the sea and in the house of his faithless girlfriend; and as the head of the new "Scuttlevision" TV service, unveiling his latest crime series "Columbojack". Be assured that the sexy "Hill's Angels" are also very much in attendance. Golden Laughs is included with four other videos in Volume One of A&E Home Entertainment's "Benny Hill: Golden Laughter" series. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Benny Hill's World Tour: New York was the final television special before the death of the British comic. The show finds him employing his usual brand of silly antics and partially-clad buxom beauties in various locations throughout The Big Apple. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

The title of this 97-minute TV-highlights compilation is Video Follies -- and the biggest folly of them all is the star, cheeky British comedian Benny Hill. Don't let the tape's sleeve cover mislead you; that picture of a bowler-hatted Benny in the role of an efficiency expert is hardly representative of the rest of the proceedings, which include an abundance of double- and single-entendre jokes, not to mention generous eyefuls of those gorgeous Hill's Angels. Though John Robins and Dennis Kirkland are the official directors, it's Benny's show all the way -- he wrote it, staged the routines, and picked the cast members (especially the ladies). Originally released in 1985, Video Follies is one of seven tapes included in Thames Video's Benny Hill Collection. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Benny Hill stars in nearly two hours of ribald highlights from his popular British TV comedy specials of the 1960s and 1970s. This time around, Benny offers such TV and movie spoofs as "Friday Night Fever" and "Bionic Baby." In addition, the hero portrays a 19th century coquette, pays a visit to Dimton on the Sea, and joins the fun at the Hill's Angels Saloon Show. Originally released in 1982, Video Sideshow is one of seven tapes included in Thames Video's Benny Hill Collection. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Taken from the popular British television show featuring comedian Benny Hill, this video is a collection of some of the best skits from these raunchy and vulgar--but funny--episodes. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career criminals throughout one of the biggest international gold heists in history. Michael Caine is Charlie Croker, a stylish robber and skirt-chaser just out of British prison. Shunning rehabilitation for recidivism, Croker takes over "The Italian Job," a complicated plan to hijack gold bullion from Italy -- right from underneath the noses of the Italian Police and the Mafia. The job, whose original mastermind was murdered, clearly requires the sponsorship of a richer, more established criminal than Croker. He turns to the auspices of the eccentric Mr. Bridger (Noël Coward in his last film role), a suave, regal, incarcerated English crime boss with a peculiar fascination with the Queen. Bridger provides Croker with a quirky group of Britain's most infamous computer hackers (including a lascivious Benny Hill), bank robbers, hijackers, and getaway drivers -- the ex-con is soon well on his way to relieving Italy of the gold. ~ Aubry Anne D'Arminio, All Movie Guide

One of the stars of Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, Dick Van Dyke, is re-united with that film's composer and lyricist, Richard M.Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, in this big budget and bloodless children's fantasy musical, based on the children's book by James Bond author Ian Fleming. Van Dyke plays Caractacus Potts, a failed inventor who lives in a big house with his two children -- Jemima Heather Ripley and Jeremy Adrian Hall -- and eccentric father Lionel Jeffries. Potts has to raise 30 shillings so his children can buy a broken-down racing car from the junkyard. After a disastrous attempt to sell his invention of whistling sweets to Lord Scrumptious (James Robertson-Justice), the local candy maker, he finally gets enough money for the car by doing a Dick Van Dyke dance routine at the county fair. Potts takes the car and miraculously transforms the vehicle into a shiny new car named Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. While on a picnic with the children and Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), Lord Scrumptious' beautiful daughter, Potts concocts a fantasy tale about the magical powers of the car, which can now float on water and fly. In the tale, Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) wants the car for himself and kidnaps the automobile and the inventor. But Bomburst captures Grandpa by mistake along with the wrong car, so Potts, Truly, and the children have to enlist Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on a rescue mission to Bomburst's lair to save Grandpa. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Based on Touch It Light, a play by Robert Storey, Skywatch is distinguished by a stellar British cast. Ian Carmichael is the officer in charge of a World War 2 searchlight unit. The archetypal comedy relief is supplied by none other than Benny Hill, while the "girl appeal" is handled by singing idol Tommy Steele. In Stalag 17 fashion, humor deftly dovetails into suspense and back again. Skywatch is also known as Light Up the Sky. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Already a popular TV comedian in 1956, Benny Hill heads the cast of the zany comedy-mystery Who Done It? Eschewing his usual double entendres in favor of pure-and-simple slapstick, Hill plays a would-be private eye named Hugo. Before he quite knows what's happening, Hugo is up to his neck in espionage intrigue. Belinda Lee plays Hugo's dewey-eyed blonde assistant, George Relph is cast as a flustered Scotland Yard inspector, and David Kossof and George Margo portray a couple of sinister Iron Curtain spies. Who Done It? was scripted by T. E. B. Clarke, a mainstay of the droll Ealing comedies of the early 1950s. The film remained unreleased in the US until the late 1970s, when it was put on the market to cash in on the international success of The Benny Hill Show. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide