tom thumb (1958)
Dec 18, 2000Miniature Boy/Fairy Tale
George Pal adapts the Brothers Grimm fairytale with Russ Tamblyn as a miniature youth amid colourful effects and extended slapstick scenes
Terry-Thomas
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
Dec 19, 2002Brothers Grimm Anthology/Biopic
Anthology of Brothers Grimm stories from George Pal where the brothers are wound in as characters. The film’s effectiveness is killed by Pal pitching everything down at a mawkish and simple-minded level
Mouse on the Moon (1963)
Feb 17, 2003World's Smallest Country Launches a Moon Mission
Charming sequel to The Mouse That Roared where the world’s smallest country decides to launch a mission to the Moon and accidentally end up winning the Space Race
Munster Go Home (1966)
Oct 9, 2003Family of Monster Lookalikes/The Munsters Film
A film spinoff from tv's The Munsters, a likeable knockabout farce featuring the original cast that takes the characters to England and has them enter a car race
Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon (1967)
Jun 24, 2007Victorian Rocket Launch Comedy
This jumps aboard the 1960s fad for Jules Verne film adaptations but it has nothing to do with Verne and is instead a slapstick caper film about the building of a rocket during the Victorian era
The Karate Killers (1967)
Mar 13, 2024Man from U.N.C.L.E./Spy Film
One of the appealingly colourful theatrical films edited together from the tv series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - although surprisingly given the title this is not a martial arts film
Danger: Diabolik (1967)
Jul 4, 2000Masked Super-Thief/Comic-Book Adaptation
Mario Bava directs a sublimely stylish and tongue-in-cheek adaptation of an Italian comic-book about a masked super-thief who delights in outwitting and taunting the bumbling authorities
The Perils of Pauline (1967)
Feb 28, 2002Heroine's Campy Adventures
Pearl White was the original serial heroine in The Perils of Pauline. During the 1960s Batman craze, the serial was revived as this campy comedy
The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971)
Apr 11, 1999Disfigued Madman's Campy Revenge
Droll, elegant camp masterpiece with Vincent Price giving the best performance of his life as a deformed madman employing the Biblical Plagues of Egypt as a motif to take revenge against the surgeons who killed his wife
Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Sep 29, 2001Disfigured Madman
Sequel to The Abominable Dr Phibes that brings back Vincent Price and seeks to replicate the same droll campy humour as before but with more mixed results this time
The Vault of Horror (1973)
Feb 27, 2003Amicus Horror Anthology
The second of Amicus Films’ adaptations from EC Comics, a follow-up to their earlier Tales from the Crypt and one of their weaker horror anthologies with the episodes much more variable in overall quality
Robin Hood (1973)
May 5, 2003Disney Animation/Legend Enacted with Talking Animals
Disney animated film produced during the studio's creative slump between the 1960s and 80s, the main conceit is recasting the story of Robin Hood with talking animals amid much slapstick
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
Feb 17, 2021Sherlock Holmes Comedy/Ghostly Dog Mystery
Adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes novel made as a comedy vehicle for Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Given the duo's reputations as comics, the results are fairly excruciating