Harry Booth Movies
- 1974
No one can be expected to take seriously a film titled Flying Sorcerer. Nor is this kiddie-oriented British fantasy meant to be regarded as anything other than a tongue-in-cheek enterprise. Kim Burfield plays a contemporary lad who is magically hurled back to the Middle Ages. Vanquishing a dragon, Kim brings the now-docile beast back to his friends and family in The Present. Erik Chitty, star of the British All in the Family precursor Til Death Do Us Part, represents the adult contingent in Flying Sorcerer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
This series of videos contains memorable episodes from the British television series that mixed drama with archival footage as it chronicled the exploits of Squadron 697 during WW II. This volume contains "Unusual Ally." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1972
This British television series mixed drama with archival footage as it chronicled the exploits of Squadron 697 during WWII. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
On the Buses was an engagingly daffy British TV sitcom set in a bus depot and made in the late sixties. Reg Varney starred as the head of the lost and found department, who spent the better part of his time fielding wisecracks from his fellow bus-company employees. The series proved popular enough to spawn three theatrical features, the second of which was 1972's Mutiny on the Buses. This time around, a labor dispute leads to endless slapstick complications. Reg Varney and Doris Hare repeat their TV series roles. On the Buses was "Americanized" as the 1973 Dom DeLuise sitcom Lotsa Luck. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 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, All Movie Guide
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, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Reg Varney, Doris Hare, (more)
- 1967
This documentary video looks at the events and circumstances surrounding the Duke of Windsor's abdication to marry a commoner. This program is narrated by Orson Wells. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1965
Orson Welles narrates this informative documentary on the life of The Duke of Windsor. With newsreel footage and films from the former king's private collection, the Duke and Duchess (the former Mrs. Wallace Simpson) are interviewed and give candid recollections of the classic story of the man who gave up the royal crown for the woman he loved. The Duchess is not even mentioned in the first 70 minutes of the feature, with the focus being on the scholastic and military training of the young man who would become King Edward VIII. Careful attention was given in portraying the Duke as a right good chap with no mention of his admiration for Adolph Hitler. The Duke was in his 70s at the time of the documentary and reads from his original abdication speech given after only 325 days on the throne. An added bonus are interior scenes of Buckingham Palace and other royal retreats. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- 1957
Off-his-trolley concert pianist Stephen Murray craves both money and publicity. He hopes to attain both by kidnapping beauteous lady journalist Patricia Dainton. Notifying the London media, Murray announces that unless his conditions are met, Dainton will be murdered five days hence "at the stroke of nine". It is the "helpless" heroine herself who engineers the psychopath's downfall. Leading lady Patricia Dainton, who'd begun her career in precocious teen-ager roles, made only a handful of films after At the Stroke of Nine before her 1960 retirement. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
