Frequently Bought Together
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Product details
|
Reviews
Special Features
4:3 Full Frame
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Stereo English
Dolby Digital Stereo
English
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Stereo English
Dolby Digital Stereo
English
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
55 of 59 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is an example of a style of comedy that was very very British and also very much of its period. We see villains presented as comic rogues and policemen as bumbling duffers led by the public school class that got their promotions on the basis of the old school tie. And this at a time which saw the rise of the Krays and their contemporaries in the real London gangland!
But we don't watch these movies for social commentary; we watch them for the superb comedic talents of the cast; the cast list reads like a who's who of British comedy, Sellers, Cribbins, Stark, Jefferies, Le Mesurier....plus the unusual sight of Bill Kerr as an Aussie crook with a brilliant plan to hoodwink both the Plod and the Underworld at the same time. This movie isn't the only slapstick villain piece from that period (mid 50's to mid 60's, from "The Naked Truth" to "Go to Blazes") but it is an extremely good one.
Buy this movie. It is a passport back to a comforting world very different from our own, when Police cars still had bells and dark blue paintwork, coppers could be spotted a mile off by the Big Boots and "'Ello 'Ello" demeanour, and villains were lovable types who wouldn't harm a fly when stealing a payroll or bullion or jewels or whatever; no-one gets hurt but there's a wonderfully comic punch up at the end.
And it's one of the last chances to see Sellers before he lost his East End accent and became lost as Clouseau.
But we don't watch these movies for social commentary; we watch them for the superb comedic talents of the cast; the cast list reads like a who's who of British comedy, Sellers, Cribbins, Stark, Jefferies, Le Mesurier....plus the unusual sight of Bill Kerr as an Aussie crook with a brilliant plan to hoodwink both the Plod and the Underworld at the same time. This movie isn't the only slapstick villain piece from that period (mid 50's to mid 60's, from "The Naked Truth" to "Go to Blazes") but it is an extremely good one.
Buy this movie. It is a passport back to a comforting world very different from our own, when Police cars still had bells and dark blue paintwork, coppers could be spotted a mile off by the Big Boots and "'Ello 'Ello" demeanour, and villains were lovable types who wouldn't harm a fly when stealing a payroll or bullion or jewels or whatever; no-one gets hurt but there's a wonderfully comic punch up at the end.
And it's one of the last chances to see Sellers before he lost his East End accent and became lost as Clouseau.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Peter Sellers,Lionel Jeffries, and a host of old and fondly remembered stars from the days of black and white.
Sellers gang is very successful but always losing out to a gang of fake police,a good ending with a twist.
Sellers gang is very successful but always losing out to a gang of fake police,a good ending with a twist.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Peter Sellers is at his best in this film which has loads of sixties style and innocent comedy. Lionel Jeffries is fantastic as the bumbling policeman desperately trying to impress his superiors whilst failing totally,or did he.....
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
classic sellers
Pearly Gates (Sellers) is the mastermind of a criminal gang which includes his old sparing partner, Graham Stark in this black and white classic. Read more
Published 2 months ago by bruce davison
Nosey Parker, Nervous O'Toole............Pearly Gates.
London's crooks are finding that no matter what job they pull, the London Constabulary are waiting to feel their collars. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Spike Owen
The Wrong Arm of the Law
Not quite 'The Blue Lamp' but this has all the atmosphere of policing in the 1950s/60s coupled with a deal of humour from writers Ray Galton, Alan Simpson and John Antrobus. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mr. David R. Burleigh
the best
maybe i am bias but i was a spotty teenager of 14 when this came out and i never tire of watching it,,nosey parker,nervous o`toole, pearly gates, ziggy schwartz..the ipo mob... Read more
Published 9 months ago by tony
How comedy should be done
I am 43 and I grew up with these stars, Lionel Jeffries being my favourite,even John junkin brings a smile to my face without uttering a word but in my opinion cribbins
Wipes... Read more
Wipes... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. Paul Mitchell
The Wrong Arm of the Law [DVD]
The Wrong Arm of the law - a real Peter Sellers classic and a must have for your collection.
Basically its based on a couple of London gangs and a Australian gang who... Read more
Basically its based on a couple of London gangs and a Australian gang who... Read more
Published 11 months ago by D. J. Tutton
Very funny British comedy
This film is an excellent example of British comedy of the 1950's to 1960's. It is a good story written by Galton and Simpson and has many well known actors of the period. Read more
Published 15 months ago by A. Roberts
Delightful film
Lovely older film. Very funny, particularly the joining of the police and crooks to catch another gang. Lionel jeffries is perfect as an old style copper! Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mr. Keith Mapp
Charming and funny
This is one of those films you can sit down on a grey afternoon and really cheer yourself up. It has a good plot, a lively pace, some good dialogue and, best of all, some wonderful... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Holly1abc
Fun formula comedy with Sellers at about his best
Not quite one of the best britcoms of the period, or the best of the PS films of the period, his golden period, but it is one seriously funny performance by the comic genius as he... Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2009 by Lou Knee
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
