Reg Varney Movies
Various bus crashes combined with damaged property puts a bus depot manager in financial problems. ~ Rovi
- 1972
The Best Pair of Legs in the Business was also released as The Best Pair of Legs in Town. Both titles succinctly encapsulate the film's seedy showbiz ambience. The story is set at a British holiday camp, where a troupe of third-rate entertainers do their best to keep the patrons happy, staging musical revues, beauty contests and the like. Essentially a comedy, the film has an inner lining of pathos: like Archie Rice in The Entertainer, the main characters are losers but won't admit it. Reg Varney and Diane Coupland top the cast. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
This uber-low-brow comedy feature constitutes a spin-off from a daffy British TV sitcom of the same name, set in a bus depot and made in the late sixties. The feature, like the series, stars Reg Varney as a bus driver who spends the better part of his time fielding wisecracks from his fellow bus-company employees. This time around, a labor dispute leads to endless slapstick complications. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Reg Varney, Bob Grant, (more)
- 1972
Expert Brtish farceurs Reg Varney and Norman Rossington carry the weight of Double Take on their bony shoulders. Our heroes are a pair of waiters, who enter into a financial agreement with a gang of crooks. When the boys can't pay off, they're dead men walking. So they stop walking and start running-directly to a movie studio, where sexy film star Sue Lloyd helps them hide out. Needless to say, Varney and Rossington upset the studio's decorum in record time. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on a popular British television series from the late sixties, On the Buses centers on the chaos caused in a bus depot when the boss hires a passel of female bus drivers. This marked the first of three theatrical features based on the series (the second and third installments were the 1972 Mutiny on the Buses and the 1974 Holiday on the Buses, respectively). Though all three films were critically savaged, they grossed dollar one in Great Britain, particularly this first installment - eliciting a host of sequels and imitators. The Motion Picture Guide wrote of On the Buses, " The humor is sexist, of course, and infantile, with no wit or sophistication, which of course ensured its appeal to a large segment of the masses." ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Reg Varney, Doris Hare, (more)
- 1966
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Cartoonist Ronald Searle's delightfully diabolical private-school girls are back in action in The Great St. Trinian's Bank Robbery. Comedian Frankie Howerd plays the head of a train-robbery gang who cleverly hides the loot from their biggest haul (presumably the infamous "Great Train Robbery" of 1963) in a deserted old mansion. The gang waits the traditional seven years for the statute of limitations to run out then returns to the mansion to dig up their $7 million booty. Unfortunately, the joint has been converted into the new site for St. Trinian's School for Girls. Even more unfortunately (for the crooks, but not the audience) those "girls" are all holy terrors. The film's climax occurs during a riotous Parents' Day ceremony, which predictably segues into a wild train chase. Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery might have been funnier had Alastair Sim, the star of the first three "St. Trinian's" entries, made a return appearance. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Frankie Howerd, Reg Varney, (more)
- 1965
In this British wartime comedy, a group of captured con-artists must choose between jail terms or military service. Naturally they choose the army. Once they are assigned to a post they set up successful gambling and liquor operations. When they go overseas, they do the same thing. They are then asked to start a social club to boost morale. They do so, and the operation is only a hair's breadth away from being a brothel. They attempt to keep the joint a secret from visiting Parliamentary members, but it is not long before the cathouse is out of the bag. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Harry H. Corbett, Stanley Baxter, (more)
- 1952
In this whimsical fantasy, a mild-mannered writer of wild adventure novels for young girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan. She suggests that they conspire together to steal the whiskey formula from the distillers who took it from her family many years ago. They do so, and with the recipe find themselves receiving many partnership offers from distillery's. The writer's partner then insures that he has plenty of young fans to inspire him to keep on writing. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
