Some Will, Some Won't is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Duncan Wood. It was a remake of Laughter in Paradise. It starred an ensemble British cast, including Michael Hordern, Ronnie Corbett, Dennis Price, Leslie Phillips and Arthur Lowe. It featured a cameo performance from Steptoe and Son actor Wilfrid Brambell who played Henry Russell, who has left four family members £150,000 in his will, on the condition they do the bizarre tasks he has set out for them.
, 1h30 OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy ThemesFilms set in Africa ActorsFrankie Howerd, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Patrick Cargill, Lance Percival, Julie Ege Rating60% Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) becomes the inadvertent possessor of a scroll bearing all the names of the proposed assassins of Nero (Patrick Cargill). The conspirators need to recover the scroll fast, but it has fallen into the hands of Lurcio's master, Ludicrus Sextus (Michael Hordern) who mistakenly reads the contents of the scroll to the Senate. Farcical attempts are made to retrieve the scroll before Pompeii is eventually consumed by the erupting Vesuvius.
Directed byPat Jackson OriginUnited-kingdom GenresThriller, Comedy, Horror ActorsMichael Gough, Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Donald Pleasence, Dennis Price Rating63% The relatives of Uncle Gabriel are summoned to an old country house in the middle of moorlands in Yorkshire to hear the reading of his will. They all stay in the mansion overnight, and one by one the guests are murdered. The remaining guests must solve the mystery as to who is committing these murders before they too are killed.
, 1h35 Directed byKen Annakin OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy ActorsStanley Baxter, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Julie Christie, Kathleen Harrison, Eric Barker Rating60% Murdoch Troon (Stanley Baxter) is a dour Scot living and working for a local government authority somewhere in the south of London. A shy young man, his main excitement comes from cycling. After he's forced off the road by an impatient car driver, he tracks down the owner, only to find that he is Commander Chingford (James Robertson Justice), the domineering and acerbic owner of a sportscar distributorship.
OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy ActorsRobert Morley, Daniel Massey, Dennis Price, Coral Browne, Norman Rossington, Maggie Smith Rating59% Three incompetent criminals steal a fire engine as a getaway vehicle.
Recently released from prison, Bernard, Harry and Alfie have planned the perfect bank robbery, for which they need the perfect getaway. This is the part that let them down last time, hence their prolonged stay at ‘Her Majesty’s Pleasure…’