Bob Kellett Movies
- 1977
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Are You Being Served? was a popular British TV sitcom all about the balmy employees of a department store clothing section. This 1977 feature-film version of Are You Being Served? finds screenwriters Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft not content with leaving the regulars in their natural cloak-and-suit habitat, so they send most of the cast on holiday to a fictional resort. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1973
- PG
In this comedy, based on a stage play, a randy politician gets in trouble for sleeping with his secretary and another woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1972
- PG
In this gender-bending war drama, set during WW II, an actor, impersonating a woman, finds himself captured by Nazis. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Zany British comedian Frankie Howerd, who'd previously laid waste to Ancient Rome in Up Pompeii, does same with World War II in Up the Front. Howerd plays a timorous servant who undergoes hypnosis. While thus entranced, he imagines himself a fearless warrior, and makes a beeline to the recruiting office. The laughs come fast and furious when Howerd finds himself the recipient of the enemy's war plans--tattooed on his tush. As was customary, Frankie Howerd took several opportunities in Up the Front to directly address the audience and crack wise about the situation at hand. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1971
In this comedy, the WASPy parents of an adolescent son, who heretofore showed no interest at all in the opposite sex, are shocked when he suddenly brings home an androgynous girl from the West Indies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1971
- PG
The British farce Naughty Knights was originally shipped out as Up the Chastity Belt. Raucuous comedian Frankie Howerd, who laid waste to Roman history in the zany TV series Up Pompeii, is the star. The film's medieval adventures, involving a noble knight and his stupid serf, are punctuated by ample displays of female breasts, abdomens and thighs. As in Howerd's earlier projects, the supporting cast plays straight while the star makes snide, anachronistic comments directly at audience. This soft-core nonsense is perhaps best appreciated by fans of Frankie Howard; his suprisingly stellar supporting cast includes Bill Fraser, Anna Quayle and Eartha Kitt. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1968
Based on a popular British novel by Nell Dunn, Up the Junction was a made-for-TV movie in 1965 before being remade for theatrical release in 1968. It features Suzy Kendall as Polly, an upper-class Chelsea girl who decides to relieve her boredom by slumming in a working-class section of London called Battersea. She gets a job in a candy factory and becomes friends with co-workers Rube (Adrienne Posta) and Sylvie (Maureen Lipman), two sisters. Polly takes up with Peter (Dennis Waterman), who dreams of leaving Battersea and becoming rich. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, (more)
- 1967
Fast-buck filmmaker Barry Mahon is at it again in Girl Smugglers. This one concerns the kidnapping of innocent Puerto Rican girls for the purposes of prostitution. Hero Lucky Kargo (we swear we're not making that up!) becomes involved when his sister is abducted. Kargo follows the villains all the way to the streets of New York. Production values? A talented cast? Not today, folks. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1967
In this drama, a singer on her husband's weekly television show suddenly decides to begin a new life without him. She then quits her job and moves into the house of another man, a good friend, not a lover. When she learns that her husband is looking for a replacement singer, she does her best to stop him. The couple eventually reunites after the husband saves her from the attack of a lascivious drunken Australian during a wild party. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Wendy Craig, Francis Matthews, (more)
- 1965
In this British comedy, a group of aged travelers on vacation in France have many fun encounters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
