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• The Terry Thomas Movie Collection | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.89

  The three films in this Terry Thomas Collection--The Naked Truth, Too Many Crooks and Make Mine Mink--are each an unalloyed delight from beginning to end. Though produced on slim budgets they possess witty scripts by Michael Pertwee, deft direction in two instances by Mario Zampi, inventive music scores and marvellous casts featuring two generations of British actors, from Athene Seyler to a young Kenneth Williams. Individually and as an ensemble these players are a pleasure to watch. But of course Terry Thomas, the catalyst of the collection, runs the gamut with a plethora of facial expressions, body language and verbal repartee that contribute so much to the unbuttoned joy of each film. In the earliest of them, The Naked Truth (1957), TT plays a dodgy peer of the realm being blackmailed in the company of Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount and Shirley Eaton by a gutter press journalist, Dennis Price ("Don't try to appeal to my better nature, because I haven't one"). The moments of slapstick are brought off to a tee as when the larger-than-life Peggy Mount attempts a suicide drop from her window to be saved by an awning on a shop front. Too Many Crooks (1959) has TT being blackmailed once again, this time for the hoards he's stashed away as a renowned tax dodger. Look out for the very funny court scene, where TT makes three appearances on separate charges, before a bemused magistrate, John Le Mesurier. Make Mine Mink (1960), the odd one out in this collection, was adapted from a West End stage farce, Breath of Spring. TT leads a gang of middle-aged biddies who decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life", by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. The splendid cast includes Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams. On the DVD: The Terry Thomas Collection comes in an attractive box containing the three discs. All are 4:3 ratio and with mono sound. The only extras are a trailer for each film which, in the instance of Make Mine Mink, is introduced by Terry Thomas himself, who presents us to his gang of fur thieves as the voice on the soundtrack announces him as "fur, fur funnier than you've seen him before". --Adrian Edwards

• The Naked Truth | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 1957's The Naked Truth Terry Thomas plays a dodgy peer of the realm being blackmailed in the company of Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount and Shirley Eaton by a gutter press journalist, Dennis Price ("Don't try to appeal to my better nature, because I haven't one"). One fascinating element in this picture is the portrayal of those relationships that could be only suggested in a period of tighter censorship, such as Peter Sellers' TV personality and Kenneth Griffith as his dresser, whose gay relationship is only faintly etched in here. More overt is the characterisation of a masculine looking authoress, known only by her initials, but sporting Agatha Christie's hairdo. The moments of slapstick are brought off to a tee, as when the larger-than-life Peggy Mount attempts a suicide drop from her window to be saved by an awning on a shop front. On the DVD: The Naked Truth comes to DVD in 4:3 ratio and with a mono soundtrack. The only extra feature is a trailer. More TT tomfoolery can be found in the three-disc Terry Thomas Collection. --Adrian Edwards

• Spaced Out/Sex Clinic | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Spaced Out: When three voluptuous female aliens crash-land in a quiet English park the result is close encounters of the sauciest kind! Three hapless men witness the UFO's arrival and are kidnapped by the sexy extra-terrestrials who soon discover the joys of 'first contact'! From cult director Norman J. Warren (Satan's Slave Prey and Inseminoid) this wacky space odyssey blasts off with intergalactic giggles and girls aplenty! Sex Clinic: An unscrupulous and beautiful proprietor of a London heath clinic (Georgina Ward) offers her randy clients 'added extras' but after administering the spankings she ruthlessly blackmails the customers. But when a mysterious stranger appears on the scene she gets a taste of her own naughty medicine. Unseen for over thirty years Sex Clinic is an ingenious sex drama from the pen of Hazel Adair (creator of TV soap Crossroads).

• It's All Gonna Kick Off | DVD | (15/04/2013) from £3.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (276.63%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Emma and Peterson encounter their fierce predator Voyte Parker. A cop confronts his son's murderer. A man finds his wife is cheating on him. Intersecting story lines; murderers, coppers, teachers and teenagers. Devastating views of people’s live as they all head for the ‘Train Crash ‘that is their lives and bear witness to one particular Young Offender…