This is an incredibly inventive little film. All of the props were made twice, one normal size and the other larger so Stan and Ollie can realistically play children.
The slapstick and visual gags are standard Laurel and Hardy fare but done so well, they are easily able to carry this film on their own.
Holed up in a hut the men capture a Japanese soldier (Kenji Takaki), Bamforth forges a friendship with the man and ends up defending him when Mitchem decides the man must die, and Johnson shows a rather bloodthirsty desire to carry out that order. When it is established the Japanese are a lot closer than expected the patrol tries to retreat but is it too late?
Although studio based (with some stock footage of wild animals) the film makes the most of it's limited sets and budget to produce a realistic view of war, and it's effects on humanity. No daring chisel jawed heroes here, more like ordinary men hurled into extraordinary times and how the true man behind the facade emerges when the pressure is on.
An excellent little wartime spy drama. Andersen (Conrad Veidt) is the captain of a neutral Danish freighter which is impounded by the Royal Navy to check it's cargo. Two of his passengers, Mrs Sorensen (Valerie Hobson) and Mr Pidgeon (Esmond Knight), jump ship and head for London. Andersen goes in pursuit, he catches up with Sorensen and soon finds he is involved in a cat and mouse fight between British and German agents.
Andersen and Sorensen end up the prisoners of the Germans in a basement lair. Andersen manages to escape and enlists the help of some of his countrymen to save the day and more importantly Mrs Sorensen...
An exciting film full of derring-do that makes the most of a modest budget. Filmed when it was, just as the war was starting, the propaganda is dialled back and the Germans are mostly portrayed as doing their duty as opposed to just being evil. The growing relationship between Andersen and Sorensen is well portrayed and very believable.
They discover the robot has been modified by an unauthorised microchip and under the control of someone else. That someone else is Luther (Gene Simmons), a rather over the top hoodlum and electronics expert, who wants to make these killer chips to terrorists and the mob. Ramsey seeks to stop Luther though he always seems one step ahead, plus he has a gun which fires heat seeking bullets...
A glorious mess of a film, completely ridiculous in many ways but always entertaining and with some interesting ideas about how technology would develop in the future (and they got a lot of things spot on). Tom Selleck seems a bit out of place in this film but that makes it all the more fun and to be fair he does a good job. Gene Simmons chews the scenery but it completely suits the film. Also look out for Kirstie Alley.
Shrimpton-on-Sea is a typical English village with a well meaning but pompous Lord (Morton Selten) and the populace veering between fawning obedience and simmering revolutionary resentment. A passing dead star pulls the village off into space and it becomes Shrimpton-in-Space!
The postmaster and keen scientist Drake (Eliot Makeham) knows what is going on but the Lord and his committee of yes-men laugh at him... until he takes a boat to "circumnavigate" the globe in a few hours! They indeed are now on their own and cut off from the rest of the world. With every resource in limited supply the Lord orders a system of rationing but some voices start to call for the Lord's estate, and it's riches, be plundered for the good of all. Conflict sparks between the two captions...
A science-fiction tale but mostly this is an often funny satire on Interwar Britain with it's slightly shakey but still intact class system and the dark shadow of socialism threatening to cut the Lord off from his sherry. Drake's daughter Stella (Rene Ray) and the Lord's son Bryan-Grant (Derrick de Marney) provide the love interest, and of course another aspect of the class-divide which is explored in this film. Mary Hinton is perfect as the snooty Lady of the manor.