Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1972  G, 96 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Fantasy / Musical
Director: William Sterling
Cast: Fiona Fullerton, Michael Crawford, Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson, Peter Sellers, Robert Helpmann, Dudley Moore, Michael Jayston, Spike Milligan, Michael Hordern, Hywel Bennett, Davy Kaye, Peter Bull, Peter O'Farrell, Roy Kinnear
Lewis Carroll's classic story of Alice's (Fiona Fullerton) adventures after falling into a rabbit hole is brought to the screen in this British musical.
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 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1978  PG, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Horror / Mystery
Director: Paul Morrissey
Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Denholm Elliott, Dana Gillespie, Terry-Thomas, Joan Greenwood, Spike Milligan, Jessie Matthews, Roy Kinnear, Henry Woolf, Josephine Tewson, Max Wall, Prunilla Scales, Lucy Griffiths, Kenneth Williams
In this satire on the Arthur Conan Doyle story, Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cook) and Dr. Watson (Dudley Moore) encounter Dr. Mortimer (Terry-Thomas) who tells them about a curse on the male Baskerville family heirs. Dr. Watson arrives at Baskerville Hall to investigate and stays with the heir, Sir Henry Baskerville (Kenneth Williams), while Holmes searches for a way to relieve his tensions. Meanwhile, Watson looks for clues, but it will be Holmes who finally solves the case.
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste 1977  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Marty Feldman
Cast: Ann - Margret, Marty Feldman, Michael York, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones, Trevor Howard, Henry Gibson, Terry-Thomas, Roy Kinnear, Spike Milligan
Marty Feldman wrote, directed, and stars in this very funny spoof on French Foreign Legion films.
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Rentadick 1972 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Jim Clark
Cast: James Booth, Richard Briers, Julie Ege, Donald Sinden, Roy Kinnear, Michael Bentine, Ronald Fraser, Spike Milligan, Tsai Chin, Kenneth Cope, John Wells, Patricia Quinn
Chaos, along with humor and double crosses, are the order of the day when the bumbling detectives of Rentadick, Inc. set out on the trail of criminals who stole a nerve gas that paralyzes its victims from the waist down.
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Suspect 1960  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Risk
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Cast: Tony Britton, Peter Cushing, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Thorley Walters, Donald Pleasence, Spike Milligan, Kenneth Griffith, Basil Dignam
Scientists working under Professor Sewell (Peter Cushing) discover a means to wipe out typhus and bubonic plague. The government classifies the work since it could, perhaps, be used by the enemy for germ warfare. One of the team is frustrated with that decision and makes a deal with the wrong people.
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The Three Musketeers 1973 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Raquel Welch, Michael York, Geraldine Chaplin, Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, Frank Finlay, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Spike Milligan, Roy Kinnear, Joss Ackland, Simon Ward, Georges Wilson
This is a very good rendition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel about the swashbuckling adventures and romances of D'Artagnan (Michael York) and the three Musketeers–Athos, Aramis, and Porthos (Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, and Frank Finlay). The story begins when D'Artagnan arrives in Paris wanting to follow in the footsteps of his father (Joss Ackland) who was a Musketeer. He meets and befriends Athos, Aramis, and Porthos and then joins in their efforts to defend Queen Anna (Geraldine Chaplin) from the scheming Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston).
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| 1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
2. Dot and the Kangaroo (1977)
3. Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973)
4. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
5. The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
6. Rentadick (1972)
7. Suspect (1960)
aka: The Risk
8. The Three Musketeers (1973)
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