"Actor: Frankie Howerd"

• The House in Nightmare Park | Blu Ray | (18/11/2019) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early '70s. Co-starring Hugh Burden and Oscar winner Ray Milland, and written by Terry Nation, The House in Nightmare Park is featured here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Foster Twelvetrees, a struggling tragedian who scrapes a living by giving hammy performances from the classics, can hardly believe his luck when he's invited to give a dramatic reading at the country home of a well-off family. Joy soon turns to outraged horror when he discovers dead bodies, foul intentions, lots of snakes and a madwoman in the attic. Can he uncover the hidden family secret before he comes to a sticky end..? Special Features: Theatrical trailer Full-frame, as-filmed version of main feature [SD] Original music score [SD] TV spot (mute) Image gallery PDF material

• Carry On Up The Jungle | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £4.88   |  Saving you £8.11 (166.19%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Carry On Up the Jungle has worn less well than some of the others in the series, simply because the African exploration genre it parodies--with its cannibals, great white hunters and lost Amazon tribes--is so entirely out of fashion. Still, Frankie Howerd made so comparatively few films that in one which has him as an ornithologist searching for rare birds in the company of Joan Sims and Sid James is not going to be entirely without interest. He has few great moments here, but runs through his usual repertoire of groans and horse-faced sorrowful expressions with brio. The idea of Terry Scott playing Tarzan is in itself such a good joke that it hardly matters that most of what follows is him swinging, on ropes, into obstacles. --Roz Kaveney

• The Bruce Forsyth Show | DVD | (09/11/2020) from £13.53   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Undeniably the King of Light Entertainment, Bruce Forsyth's career on television spanned a remarkable seven decades from the London Palladium shows of the 1950s to over ten years worth of Strictly Come Dancing from the mid-noughties. An all-round entertainer and light comedian, Brucie was never better than in the run of shows he did in the mid 1960s with Morecambe and Wise's scriptwriters Sid Green and Dick Hills. Mixing music, dancing and comedy in the time-honoured tradition, ABC's The Bruce Forsyth Show focussed on laughter, glamour and big name guests, including Frankie Howerd, Cilla Black, Dudley Moore (and his trio), Tommy Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Diana Dors, Kathy Kirby, Julie Rogers, Harry Secombe, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones and more! This release contains every show that remains from this classic light entertainment series alongside the 1965 Christmas special and the incomplete Frankie Howerd edition from 196

• Up Pompeii / Up The Chastity Belt | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Up Pompeii: A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar. Up The Chastity Belt: A funny thing happened to Lurkalot serf to Sir Coward de Custard on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...

• Frankie Howerd - The Lost TV Pilots | DVD | (13/08/2018) from £28.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A collection of rare television pilots featuring the one and only Frankie Howerd Born 6th March 1917, Francis Alick Howerd was once described by Barry Cryer as a comic actor whose career was a series of comebacks. Frankie Howerd was very successful in Britain, but found it harder to break into the US, Canadian and Australian markets. These pilots made in the 1970s provide a rare insight into his work abroad. From these pilots, the most famous series is Up the Convicts, made by the 7 Network in Australia, and ran for just four episodes. Frankie played Jeremiah Shirk, sentenced to a penal colony in New South Wales, Australia. If you enjoy watching Up Pompeii then Up the Convicts will give you pleasure as well. This collection includes:Up the Convicts - Episode Three, The Gong Show Pilot & The Frankie Howerd Show (CBC) - 2 Episodes Special Feature: Collection of rare interviews with Frankie Howerd from Ryan's Roost, The Mike Douglas Show and The Merv Grffin Show.

• A Touch of the Casanovas | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Following the resounding success of Up Pompeii!, Frankie Howerd delved into the pages of history once more to play the hapless valet of Venice's most infamous son. Double entendres and wicked punning run riot in this 1970s comedy gem, co-written by noted screenwriter Sid Colin, whose credits include Up Pompeii! and The Army Game.A coach lumbers along the road from Venice to Padua. Inside is Giacomo Casanova, on the run from the Doge of Venice and intent on carrying out his latest female conquest. Up on the box is Fransisco, his body servant (No, no, wait a minute! It doesn't mean what you think it does!); he's merely intent on staying out of the clutches of the Doge's guardsmen. When Casanova proposes that they swap identities, Fransisco finds that life isn't all roses for the legendary lover...

• Great St Trinians Train Robbery | DVD | (01/01/2007) from £10.18   |  Saving you £2.81 (27.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Filmed three years after the real Great Train Robbery the plot is centred on a bunch of criminals who infiltrate the school and plan to use the dubious educational establishment to stash the loot. But the train robbers fall foul of the schoolgirls and their need to have a good time causing havoc.

• The Best Of Frankie Howerd | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £4.96   |  Saving you £5.03 (101.41%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Titter ye not! This BBC compilation draws together the very finest Frankie Howerd moments from his numerous stand-up and sketch shows (including Nuts In May An Evening With Francis Howerd Howerd's History of England) as well as classic moments from the sit-com Up Pompeii! Ooh-er missus!

• Sunday Night at the London Palladium - Volume Two | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Making its debut on ITV's opening weekend in 1955 Sunday Night at the London Palladium swiftly established itself as one of the weekly televisual highlights for the British viewing public. Gaining average viewing figures of 14 million and Top Ten placings almost every week it is undoubtedly one of the main shows that helped establish commercial television in the UK. This was a weekly television event that appealed to all classes denominations and age groups - an unquestionable success which still provides a high benchmark that today's variety shows can only aspire to. This DVD set contains some of the best of what remains in the archives and includes Bruce Forsyth Jimmy Tarbuck. Cliff Richard and the Shadows The Searchers Frankie Howerd The Hollies Arthur Haynes Des O Connor Cleo Laine The Johnny Dankworth Seven and many more.

• Frost On Saturday | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £11.33   |  Saving you £8.66 (76.43%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Frost On Saturday (2 Discs)

• Further Up The Creek | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Crikey! The Royal Navy has finally entered the nuclear age and is selling off its obsolete old frigates to the Arabs!

• Pirates Of Penzance / Mikado / HMS Pinafore | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Gilbert And Sullivan's Pirates Of Penzance: Having mistakenly been sent as an apprentice to pirates young Frederic is happy to leave his indentures on his 21st birthday. Falling in love with the beautiful Mabel one of the many daughters of Major-General Stanley he decides to marry. However the pirates are all to keen to marry the rest of Stanley's daughters! A spectacular interpretation of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic! Gilbert And Sullivan's Mikado: A lavish 1982 production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera in which Nanki-Poo the son of the Mikado escaping a distasteful marriage arrives in the town of Titipu disguised as a musician... Gilbert And Sullivan's HMS Pinafore: A sailor falls for the captain's daughter. They become thwarted in their attempt to keep their love alive but a strange twist in the tale offers these lovers another chance... A thrilling adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera.

• A Touch Of The Sun | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Eccentric hotel porter Bill Darling (Frankie Howerd) inherits a small fortune and jets off to the French Riviera for a quiet life. But a man can get tired of a life of luxury - and when Bill decides the beach life isn't for him he returns to find the hotel up for sale. Plunging the last of his money into buying the property Bill Darling finds he has just days to convince sceptical investors that the now dilapidated (and empty) hotel is a potential goldmine. Frankie Howard and Denn

• Masters Of Comedy Collection | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Features the comedy of Les Dawson Tommy Cooper Freddie Star and Frankie Howerd.

• Jumping for joy | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's a dog's life in this hilarious British comedy! When Willie Joy (comedy legend Frankie Howerd) is fired from his job at the greyhound stadium he takes pity on a fellow victim and adopts an injured greyhound called Lindy Lou who would otherwise be destroyed. Teaming up with amiable con-man 'Captain' Montague (Stanley Holloway - The Lavender Hill Mob The Titfield Thunderbolt) Willie decides to train Lindy to compete for the prestigious Golden Bowl trophy. But it's not just the other dogs she has to beat - there are crooked bookies and race-track spivs to deal with too!

• Up The Front | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Frankie Howerd stars as a lowly boot-boy who is a terrible coward and only goes to war after he has been hypnotised to 'Save England'! With the German master plan tattooed on his backside he goes to the British headquarters with the Germans in hot pursuit to try and 'hand over the plans'!

• Carry On Doctor | DVD | (04/05/2001) from £6.22   |  Saving you £3.77 (60.61%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bedpan humour rules in Carry On Doctor, the vintage 1968 offering from the familiar gang, assisted by guest star Frankie Howerd as bogus faith healer Francis Bigger. Hospitals, of course, always provided the Carry On producers with plenty of material. Today, these comedies induce a twinge of serious nostalgia for the great days of the National Health Service when Matron (Hattie Jacques, naturally) ran the hospital as if it was a house of correction, medical professionals were idolised as if they were all Doctor Kildare and Accident and Emergency Departments were deserted oases of calm. But even if you aren't interested in a history lesson, Talbot Rothwell's script contains some immortal dialogue, particularly when Matron loosens her stays. "You may not realise it but I was once a weak man", says Kenneth Williams' terrified Doctor Tinkle to Hattie Jacques. "Once a week's enough for any man", she purrs back, undaunted. Other highlights include Joan Sims, excellent as Frankie Howerd's deaf, bespectacled sidekick, Charles Hawtrey suffering from a phantom pregnancy, 1960s singer Anita Harris in a rare film role, and Barbara Windsor at her most irrepressible as nurse Sandra May. This is one of the best. On the DVD: Presented in 1.77:1 format for a pseudo-widescreen effect, the picture quality is good and sharp, accompanied by a standard mono soundtrack. The same no-frills approach is taken with the packaging; a functional scene index and no extras. Yet again, a missed opportunity to use the DVD release to provide some context. At their best, the Carry On films are rightly seen as classic comedies of their type. They really deserve to be better celebrated. --Piers Ford

• Make 'Em Laugh | DVD | (19/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Revel in 150 minutes of pure comic brilliance with this six-part series featuring some of Britain's greatest comedy icons!Digging deep into the archives, Make 'Em Laugh features many of British film's favourite comic moments from hilarious horror spoofs to farcical crime capers! Arranged thematically, this series features excerpts from an array of classics and showcases the comedy genius of Alastair Sim, Frankie Howerd, Terry-Thomas, John Cleese, Benny Hill, Will Hay, Kenneth Williams, Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Mollie Sugden, Leslie Phillips, Marty Feldman, Warren Mitchell, Dick Emery and Sid James.The films covered in this series include:Up Pompeii!Steptoe and SonThe RebelTill Death Us Do PartHoliday on the BusesClockwiseThe Great St. Trinian's Train RobberyAre You Being Served?Every Home Should Have OneRhubarbOoh, You Are AwfulThe Ghost of St. Michael'sand numerous Carry Ons!

• Masters Of Comedy - Frankie Howerd | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £9.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (25.03%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Frankie Howerd is one of Britain's most enduring comedians. Having honed his act during WWII to cheer up demotivated troops he quickly established himself as one of the nation's favourite performers. This collection of greatest moments from his TV career confirms why he continues to reduce audiences yound and old to hysteria-induced tears!

• The Cool Mikado | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Cool Mikado