"Take a trip round the bend - with the World's Wackiest Family!" 21 January 1965 Comedy 85 mins
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.
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Eric Sykes as Mr. Groomkirby
Julia Foster as Sylvia
Peggy Mount as Mrs. Gantry
Mona Washbourne as Aunt Mildred
George Cole as Defence Counsel
Jonathan Miller as Kirby
Alison Leggatt as Mrs. Groomkirby
Douglas Wilmer as Judge
Glyn Houston as Detective Inspector Barnes
Graham Crowden as Prosecuting Counsel
Kenneth Farrington as Stan
Walter Horsbrugh as Clerk of the Court
Frederick Piper as Usher
Vincent Harding as Policeman / Bus Conductor
Tommy Bruce as Gormless (voice)
Trevor Bannister as Groomkirby's Co-Worker
Richard Rodney Bennett Original Music Composer
Marcus Dods Conductor
Reece Pemberton Production Design
Peter Taylor Editor
Austin Dempster Camera Operator
Claude Watson Assistant Director
Jane Buck Continuity
Graham Harris Sound Editor
Tom Smith Makeup Artist
Betty Sherriff Hairdresser
Michael Holden Associate Producer
Leigh Aman Associate Producer
Oscar Lewenstein Executive Producer
Michael Deeley Producer
Peter Yates Director
N.F. Simpson Writer
United Kingdom 21 January 1965
United States 02 March 1965
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NF Simpson's brilliant surreal play filmed by Peter Yates and starring Eric Sykes (1964). See also:
From Scene from One Way Pendulum.
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23 July 1965
Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.
23 December 1965
Post-adolescent romance; the dude and the chick both tried to impress each other by pretending to come from rich families, and eventually they'll both have to fess up.
07 June 1965
In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.
18 November 1965
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
28 November 1965
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second.
15 February 1965
A group of women are workmates at a laundry. Rike is spreading a rumor about the manager Marta, a rumor that Marta is a lesbian and that she once tried to seduce Rike.
22 December 1965
When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.
29 April 1965
Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman.
08 September 1965
During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it.
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