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The Morecambe And Wise Movie Collection [VHS] [1965]

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Product details

  • Actors: Eric Morecambe, Virgilio Texera, Isobel Black, Ernie Wise, William Franklyn
  • Directors: Robert Asher, Cliff Owen
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: ITV DVD
  • VHS Release Date: 20 May 2002
  • Run Time: 282 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000649GX
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,526 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

The Morecambe & Wise Collection brings together the total cinematic oeuvre of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise: The Intelligence Men (1965), That Riviera Touch (1966) and The Magnificent Two (1967). Though intermittently amusing, they serve mostly to confirm that Morecambe & Wise did the smart thing in devoting the majority of their career to television sketch show. Their comedy was most potent in small doses.

The Intelligence Men is an obvious but likeable parody of the early Bond films and sets the pattern for all three films: Eric and Ernie as two well-meaning blunderers cast into an unfamiliar milieu (in this case, international espionage) and forced to survive armed with little more than a repertoire of wince-inducing puns.

That Riviera Touch is an obvious but likeable parody of the heist genre. Again, Eric and Ernie are cast as hapless ingénues, in this case a pair of traffic wardens whose holiday in France intersects with the plottings of a gang of jewel thieves. If anything, it’s even more contrived than that sounds, but the scenes in which Eric cleans out the casino by accident are wonderfully understated, and a reminder of a peerless comic actor.

The Magnificent Two, the final and by some distance the least funny of the three, is an updated though rather laboured subversion of the Spaghetti Western, relying rather too much on the notion that anything and everything to do with foreigners is inherently hilarious.

On the DVD: The Morecambe & Wise Collection has English subtitles for all three discs and all include the original cinematic trailer. That Riviera Touch is presented in 4:3 format, the remaining two in 16:9. As special features go, these are annoyingly desultory for a release that will certainly only be purchased by die-hard fans. It wouldn’t have killed the producers to commission some liner notes at the very least.--Andrew Mueller



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Three films featuring the comic duo Morecambe and Wise. In the spy spoof 'The Intelligence Men' a man becomes involved in the world of espionage and assassination. In 'That Riviera Touch' the duo become involved with jewel smugglers whilst on holiday in the French Riviera. In 'The Magnificent Two' the duo find themselves involved with a rebel group when one of them is mistaken for their leader.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 280 min. charming British black humour from the 60ies!, 14 Jan 2003
A great buy! These three comedy films are great fun to watch. I would recommend to start with "That Riviera Touch" as it gives the best introduction to the starring duet of comedians and is also the best of all three. I think I am going to watch this one until I know the phrases by heart - good for my ability to imitate British English which is not my mother tongue, unfortunately (anybody having a clue as to where I could get a copy of the script???). My 8-year old daughter also has fun watching it, in spite of not understanding English at all (yet).
Secondly, "The Intelligence Men" is a cynical parody on James Bond clichés, so having seen the early James Bond films would increase one's capacity of appreciating that one. I found it funnier the second time I watched it. It occurs to me that I have to laugh at some of the scenes thinking about them a couple of days later (which either proves that I'm real dumb or that I'm not English or both).
Last not least, "The Magnificent Two" features what might be some real English black humour (if my anthropological analysis is right), however, it also has some scenes which smack of that kind of cheapish boulevard-press-style stereotypical "erotic" wit which was typical for the late sixtees - so that one I found a bit embarrassing at one point. However, having overcome that slight cultural shock, I find that also that third film has some very good fun scenes and given the price of the set you really should buy this box and enjoy three times a bit over 90 minutes approximately of "jolly good" English entertainment.
There is a cultural gap now between our age and the age of Morecambe and Wise - this makes them a bit of an antiquity, legendary and charmingly cranky-crotchety. One has to really adapt some to these films - the humour is of a different kind when compared to what you have today in films, this makes watching them both a bit demanding now (in spite of their obviously having been hilariously undemanding and popular for English people back in the 60ies) and a refreshing relief from the contemporary mainstream film culture.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Much Maligned, but enjoyable, 12 April 2003
By The Soft Machine Operator (COVENTRY, WARWICKSHIRE United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise Movie Collection [DVD] [1965] (DVD)
The intelligence men is a riot from start to finish, with Eric and Ern on top form - Eric's the child-like innocent, Ernie is the ambitious buffoon. The final scenes with Swan Lake are an absolute hoot.

That Riveria Touch is like an Abbott and Costello film, but again hugely enjoyable.

The Magnificent Two is the least of the three.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant fun for all ages, 10 Mar 2006
By Royale "Mies" (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise Movie Collection [DVD] [1965] (DVD)
Eric and Ern are not so highly regarded for their big movie outings, but time passing and not a little nostalgia have made this trio of films shot at Pinewood in the South of France in the mid-sixties, well worth a revisit. What struck me seeing them again all these years later is how good are their production values. Eric's innocence and Ernie's beligerent confidence dovetail beautifully in a latter-day Stan and Ollie format. All three are enjoyable, but That Riviera Touch is sublime. My four kids fall about during the whole of that movie.
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