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W.C. Fields Comedy Collection (The Bank Dick / My Little Chickadee / You Can't Cheat an Honest Man / It's a ... 48 reviews
W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon
Universal Studios, 2004
William Claude Dukenfield's Movie Greats
+ The Funniest Movie "It's a Gift" W.C. Fields, et al.
+ It really is a Gift!
+ Comedic Genius
+ Extrodianarily Happy
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother57 reviews
Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn
20th Century Fox, 2006
Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
+ Holmes boy
+ Sherlocks Smarter Brother
+ Finally on DVD
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Laurel & Hardy (Sons of the Desert/The Music Box/Another Fine Mess/Busy Bodies/County Hospital)87 reviews
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Lions Gate, 2003
Really Funny
+ classic comedy
+ oldies but goodies
We have alot of laughs watching these old films. They are SO Studip you have to laugh.
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The Man Who Came to Dinner 23 reviews
Bette Davis, Monty Woolley
Warner Home Video, 2006
"SHERRY' MIXED WITH VINEGAR
+ A Misanthrope's Treat!
+ Laugh-a-lot.
+ The Man Who Came To Dinner
+ The Man Who Came To Dinner
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Tom Jones 42 reviews
Albert Finney, Susannah York
Lopert Pictures Corporation, 2001
WHATS NEW PUSSYCAT !!!
+ "Out and About in the 1700s"
+ One of the Best Adaptations to Screen Ever
Tom Jones stars Albert Finny as a would be Casanova who LOVES shall we say
the delicate things in life. Winner of BEST PICTURE(???) 1963.
My friend Geri owns all the Best Pictures and I always give her pains and sorrows when she mentions this for all I can think of is....
~~~~ITS NOT ...
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Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin Classics)3 reviews
Francois Rabelais
Penguin Classics, 2006
Much fun
+ I thought I had a warped sense of humor
Gorgeously edited by Screech, this is an overwhelming joy to read, and well worth getting if you have any interest in Bakhtin.
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Bedazzled 99 reviews
Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
20th Century Fox, 2007
scratched records, doo-das and red socks
+ Great Movie
+ I AM SO HAPPY THIS IS OUT ON DVD
+ BeDazzled
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Arsenic and Old Lace177 reviews
Cary Grant, Josephine Hull
Turner Home Ent, 2000
Fun Movie!
+ "Quite Pixilating"
+ Arsenic & Old Lace dvd
+ Arsenic and Old Lace
+ I love this movie
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The Boys and Girl From County Clare27 reviews
Bernard Hill, Charlotte Bradley
First Look Pictures, 2005
If you have the music, you have a friend for life
+ ...really enjoyed this film
+ Boys & Girl from County Clare
+ Surprisingly engaging
+ The Boys and Girl from County Clare
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Without a Clue50 reviews
Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley
MGM (Video & DVD), 2004
widescreen available region 2
+ Region 2 release is NOT true widescreen
+ Michael Caine is brilliantly thick
+ A Delightful Spoof of Sherlock Holmes!
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Black Adder: The Complete Collector's Set196 reviews
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson
BBC Warner, 2001
Classic Brit Humour at its best
+ An adder can really sink its fangs into this bloody brilliant BritCom!
+ Must have for Rowan Atkinson fans
+ The Whole Bloody Dynasty
+ Incredibly fantastic!
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The Doubtful Guest17 reviews
Edward Gorey
Harcourt, 1998
"It Betrayed A Great Liking For Peering Up Flues..."
+ Gorey Beautiful
+ A Gorey story for kids and adults
+ Grab your galoshes
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Poetics: With the Tractatus Coislinianus, Reconstruction of Poetics II, and the Fragments of the On Poets2 reviews
Aristotle
Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1987
Outstanding Translation and Reconstruction
+ Tragedy Teaches Us Something About Life
This text is the first book of literary criticism in the western literary tradition--and the most influential. It is also a how-to-write-a-successful-story text, based on Aristotle's inductive study of Greek literature. Richard Janko's rendering is the best English translation I have read. His ...
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Crash the Ash
Auberon Waugh
Cimino Publishing Group, 1995
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English Eccentrics a Gallery of Weird1 review
Edith Sitwell
Penguin Putnam~trade, 1971
Eccentricity R Us
Who but Dame Edith Sitwell could produce such a wonderful send-up of the British, poking fun by speaking the truth as she saw it, in The English Eccentrics. Eccentricity was often simply the Ordinary carried to a high degree of pictorial perfection, Sitwell claims, and thus we get a gifted glimpse ...
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Cautionary Tales for Children8 reviews
Edward Gorey, Hilaire Belloc
Harcourt, 2002
Completing the Edward Gorey library
+ Revisiting CAutionary Tales
+ Dark humor and delightful drawings
+ What you do comes back
+ Deliciously twisted
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Mutts Sunday Afternoons: A Mutts Treasury (Mutts)3 reviews
Patrick McDonnell
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2004
a great book
+ I Just Love Any Kind of Mutts Books
+ One Word: YESH!
i think this is a fun book to read i like to sungle up in my bed and have a drink and read this book on cold snowy days!! i love this book and it makes me laugh its really fun so if you get this book you know your in for a treat!!
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Wheeler Dealers10 reviews
James Garner, Lee Remick
MGM (Warner), 1994
Please Put on DVD!!!
+ Wonderful family fun
+ I love this Oldie but Goodie
Please put this interesting nostalgic James Garner movie on DVD so that humble people such as myseklf can afford it.Thanks!!!
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The Jack Benny Collection 14 reviews
Jack Benny Comedy Collection
PASSPORT VIDEO, 2004
THIS A GOOD COLLECTION
+ Preservation needs a market
I just got this collection in the mail today! I haven't had a chance to watch it yet but I was just skimming through to see if what I heard was true and it was. In all of the episodes there is a big logo stammped in the corner of the screen saying "THE JACK BENNY COLLECTION". In some episodes it is ...
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The Best of Victor Borge Act One and Two31 reviews
Sahan Arzruni, Ronald Borge
Gmg Records, 1999
Great Gift Idea
+ Best of Victor Borge Act one and two
+ phonetically the best!
+ Good clean fun!!! Hard to find these days!!!
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