Fawlty Towers [TV Series] (1975) more movies like this

directed by Bob Spiers, John Howard Davies
featuring John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Brian Hall

" 'Nutter' runs small hotel" is the terse-but-true description given by an English catalog to the weekly comedy series Fawlty Towers. Created by John Cleese, the series stars Cleese as Basil Fawlty, the insufferable--and insufferably inept--owner-manager of a tenth-rate British hotel. Co-starring as Basil's equally impossible wife Sybil is ...

see all copies from $13.99!

new only from $13.99!

Hobson's Choice (1953) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales

A "Hobson's Choice," as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice, hero John Mills finds after several reels of evidence to the contrary that he does have a choice over how he'll conduct his life after all. Mills is the assistant to domineering boot-shop owner ...

see all copies from $50.00!

Fawlty Towers: Series 01 (1975) more movies like this

Terminally rude hotelier Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) and his garrulous, supremely unhelpful wife Sybil (Prunella Scales) open the doors of their Torquay inn to a wide variety of hapless customers as Fawlty Towers launches its first season on BBC2. Originally telecast on September 19, 1975, the first of the season's six episodes is "A Touch of Class ...

see all copies from $14.39!

new only from $14.39!

Fawlty Towers: Series 02 (1979) more movies like this

Originally broadcast from February 19 to October 25, 1979, the second and final season of BBC2's Fawlty Towers finds Torquay hotelier Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) continuing to insult and terrorize guests and staffers alike, while Basil's wife Sybil (Prunella Scales) proves anew that she is the most spectacularly unhelpful "helpmate" in the history ...

see all copies from $13.99!

new only from $13.99!

Stiff Upper Lips (1999) more movies like this

directed by Gary Sinyor
featuring Peter Ustinov, Prunella Scales, Georgina Cates, Samuel West, Sean Pertwee

This 5.7-million-dollar British comedy from writer/director Gary Sinyor satirizes the now-familiar Merchant-Ivory style of period dramas. So no one will miss the joke, the central setting is Ivory Hall, the Ivory family mansion in rural England. In 1908, young twit Edward Ivory (Samuel West) plans to match his bookwormish friend Cedric (Robert ...

see all copies from $1.99!

new only from $8.91!

A Chorus of Disapproval (1989) more movies like this

directed by Michael Winner
featuring Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins, Prunella Scales, Jenny Seagrove, Sylvia Syms

Alan Ayckbourn's riotously funny play about a small-time acting troupe in the sticks is brought to the screen by director Michael Winner. Jeremy Irons plays Guy Jones, a mild-mannered flunky for an electronics firm who finds himself transferred to the British seaside town of Scarsborough. Bereft after the death of his wife and seeking a diversion, ...

see all copies from $7.05!

The Wicked Lady (1983) more movies like this

directed by Michael Winner
featuring Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, Prunella Scales

Faye Dunaway stars in Michael Winner's labored re-make of the 1945 swashbuckler, which was co-scripted by Leslie Arliss, the original director of the 1945 film. Dunaway is Lady Barbara Skelton, a lady of the royal class, who becomes a highway robber, taking up with Captain Jerry Jackson (Alan Bates), a highwayman and her lover. Because of a ...

see all copies from $19.95!