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Feature film comedy and a parody of CLEOPATRA (1963). The film spoofs history in general and British attitudes in particular. Noted for it’s gloriously bad puns as in ‘Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got...
Feature film. An early comedy in the CARRY ON cycle featuring Ted Ray as the headmaster of an undisciplined school. Includes an unruly performance of a school play, Romeo and Juliet, with unmelodic...
Fiction film. Description in the Selig catalogue reads ‘Oh, how are the mighty fallen. Here is a great Shakespearean actor on his uppers, actually broke; but he retains his valet and the two of them see...
Music/comedy series presented by and starring Cilla Black. The show includes a comedy sketch on Romeo and Juliet written by Talbot Rothwell (screenplay writer of the Carry On films, many of which starred...
Radio programme on English bawdy presented by Tim Brooke-Taylor. Celebrates the history of bawdy from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Benny Hill and the ‘Carry On’ films. It asks what do Shakespeare and...
Video recording of the play written and directed by Josette Murray-Ballo and videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor. The performance formed part of a programme for teachers sponsored by the Folger to show...
Sexploitation movie. Eve Lorraine (Wiley) is a stripper who learns that she may be heiress to a fortune, but her life as a stripper threatens the inheritance. To acquire cultural credibility she studies...
Television drama written by Terry Johnson based on the real-life love affair between Sid James and Barbara Windsor set against the backdrop of the production of the Carry On films. Barbara Windsor was to...
Full-length radio version of Shakespeare’s play directed and produced by Charles Lefeaux with Stephen Murray as Lear heading a cast of members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company. Music composed by...
Feature film version of The Tempest with Helen Mirren as Prospera.
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