The Best of Benny Hill
by John Robins
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Actor: Benny Hill, Eira Heath, Henry McGee, Nicholas Parsons, Patricia HayesDirector: John Robins
Writer: Benny Hill
Producer: John Robins
Editor: Archie Ludski
Producer: Roy Skeggs
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-07-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
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Movie Review: funny VHS tape
Summary: 5 Stars
Purchased this VHS tape for my brother. He loves Benny Hill. Great VHS tape.
Summary of The Best of Benny Hill
Benny Hill was always best at quasi-silent slapstick, so it's no surprise that some of the best stuff on The Best of Benny Hill seems to owe more to the work of Mack Sennett and Fatty Arbuckle than to mainstream TV comedy. It may also be no coincidence that, unusually, this release began life in the cinema. There's some classic material on offer here: the extended opening item, "Lower Tidmarsh Hospital," for example, almost transcends buffoonery to become social comment, but best of all is the sketch which features Hill as a chat-show host (people really used to wear matching shirts and ties) attempting to deal with a West End star and starlet, the former monosyllabic, the latter catastrophically plastered. Among the other items featured, the knowing send-up of the pretentiousness of avant-garde French cinema is also very funny, while the short linking items include a wicked parody of Alan Whicker and a sideswipe at barely literate actresses ("What's that in the road? A head?"). Fans will be pleased to know that Hill's regular supporting cast, including Patricia Hayes, Nicholas Parsons and Rita Webb, are all present. --Roger ThomasArt House & International DVD Video
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