|
Marty Feldman: What Do I Spy With My Little Eye? (1974)
Character: N/A
An intimate portrait of the comedian Marty Feldman, following him preparing from a UK tour and at home with his wife Lauretta. He talks openly about his childhood and his admiration for Buster Keaton. The final scenes show Lauretta packing and the two of them leaving London on their way to Hollywood to film Young Frankenstein.
|
|
|
|
|
One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously (1969)
Character: N/A
Marty Feldman, for many years a successful comedy writer before turning to performing, explores humour through the people who create it, comparing their traditions, motivations and anxieties with his own. Among the people Marty talks to are Peter Sellers, Eric Morecambe, Peter Brough and Archie Andrews, Dudley Moore and Barry Took.
|
|
|
Group Madness (1983)
Character: Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
|
|
|
Double Bill (1969)
Character: Bill
In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.
|
|
|
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972)
Character: Banjo
Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous small-town bigwig. But he stays rather longer than anyone expects.
|
|
|
|
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
Character: Igor (archive footage)
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen.
|
|
|
US Against the World (1977)
Character: Self
This NBC Special from 1977 pitted celebrities from the worlds of film and TV in the United States against stars from the U.K. and the rest of the World. Three teams of five men and three women representing their native land, competed in a series of nine events during this fast paced and exciting 2 hour TV Special. Sporting events included bowling, darts, rowing, swimming and running relays and soccer goal kicking.
|
|
|
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault (2020)
Character: (archive footage)
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VHS mixtapes from the crackpots at AGFA—including two that have only ever been available theatrically.
|
|
|
Silent Movie (1976)
Character: Marty Eggs
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
|
|
|
Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)
Character: Sylvester
A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
|
|
|
Marty Feldman: Six Degrees of Separation (2008)
Character: Self
A documentary about the legendary and influential comedian, actor and writer, who went out from the BBC to conquer Hollywood, but sadly the system quickly withdrew its support when they couldn't contain his talents. This portrait is spiked with many comments from people who knew Feldman privately or had dealt with him professionally. His early death sadly rendered him all but forgotten by the public. The compilation consists of interviews, some film clips and photos as well as various audio clips from him.
|
|
|
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise (2013)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live television — with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows — to the film genres he so successfully satirized in Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, and Spaceballs — to the groundbreaking Broadway musical version of his first film, The Producers. The documentary also delves into his professional and personal ups and downs — his childhood, his first wife and subsequent 41-year marriage to Anne Bancroft — capturing a never-before-heard sense of reflection and confession.
|
|
|
|
|
Every Home Should Have One (1970)
Character: Teddy Brown
Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that make the product seem sexy. This leads him to confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of which his wife is a senior member.
|
|
|
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Character: Nurse Arthur
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
|
|
|
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
Character: Sgt. Orville Stanley Sacker
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
|
|
|
In God We Tru$t (1980)
Character: Brother Ambrose
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose, is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters.
|
|
|
Yellowbeard (1983)
Character: Gilbert
For years Yellowbeard had looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted for tax evasion, he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.
|
|
|
40 gradi all'ombra del lenzuolo (1976)
Character: Alex (episodio "La guardia del corpo")
Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.
|
|
|
The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
Character: Dagobert 'Digby' Geste
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
|
|
|
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Character: Igor
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
|
|
|
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star (2020)
Character: Self
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #4: FOLLOW YOUR OWN STAR is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you’ll see this week. For this latest tape, our deep dive into behind-the-scenes horror is complemented by an even deeper dive into television from Dimension X.
|
|
|
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped (2018)
Character: Self (archive footage)
At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great critical acclaim in London in late 2017. Alan Yentob visits Mel at home in Hollywood, at work and at play.
|
|
