VCI Entertainment
announced this past week that two volumes — each containing six feature films —
of the works of British comedian Sir Norman Wisdom will be available as
three-disc DVD collections beginning on Apr. 9.
These are titled Norman
Wisdom Comedy Collection, Volume 1 and Norman Wisdom Comedy Collection,
Volume 2 … the first volume features his early films (1950s), including
his leading actor debut in writer/director John Paddy Carstairs’ Trouble
in Store (released in the U.K. in 1953, but did not arrive theatrically
until January of 1955 in the United States), while the second collection are
his comedies from the early 1960s.
While a huge comedy star in England and through Europe, many of his
films failed to find a home theatrically-speaking in the United States.
Included in volume one
are: Trouble
in Store, One Good Turn (1955 in the U.K., but did not get released
theatrically in the U.S.), Man of the Moment (U.K., 1955; U.S.,
1956), Up In the World (U.K., 1956; but not released in the U.S.), Just
My Luck (U.K. only, 1957) and The Square Peg (U.K. only, 1958 …
with Honor Blackman, who would star as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger in 1964).
The second volume of
Norman Wisdom comedies being released by VCI Entertainment on Apr. 9 includes
the following: Follow A Star (U.K., 1959; U.S., 1961), The Bulldog Breed (U.K.
only 1960), On the Beat (U.K. 1962; U.S. 1963), A Stitch in Time (U.K,
1963; U.S., 1967), The Early Bird (U.K., 1965) and last, but not least, director
Robert Asher’s 1966 comedy, Press For Time (U.K. only), which
features Wisdom in multiple roles.
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