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  • On The Beat
  • On The Beat review by SILVERHARP from Edinburgh, Scotland.
    Rated - 4.0 stars A LASTING LAUGH 3 March 2009
    ...From SILVER HARP Edinburgh On the Beat (Robert Asher & John Paddy Carstairs UK Released on DVD May 2003) Starring Norman Wisdom In the days when London was ...   Read customer review

Robert Asher - filmography


  • The Saint - S03 E19 - To Kill a Saint (1967)
    Starring: Roger Moore,  Kate O'Mara,  Ian Ogilvy
    Director: Robert Asher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Shady Parisian club owner Paul Verrier is tricked into believing Simon wants to kill him so he hires assassins to polish him off. One is a young girl, the other is an Englishman. When the Saint goes to see Verrier to sort things out he assumes Simon is the Englishman and hires him to kill himself!
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 22 members
  • The Intelligence Men on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Jacqueline Jones,  William Franklyn,  Richard Vernon
    Director: Robert Asher
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Big-screen outing for popular comedy duo Morecambe and Wise. When café owner Eric (Eric Morecambe) discovers an international criminal gang, MI5 enlist his help to bring them to justice. Complications ensue, and it is not long before Eric is helping his secret agent chum Ernie (Ernie Wise) protect ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 429 members
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  • School for Scoundrels (1960)
    Starring: Terry-Thomas,  Irene Handl,  Janette Scott
    Director: John Boulting,  Mari,  Robert Asher
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is one of life's losers. Despised and disregarded at work, his prospective girlfriend April (Janette Scott) is whisked from under his nose by charming bounder Raymond Delauney (Terry-Thomas). In desperation, Henry enrols at Stephen Potter's (Alastair Sim) College of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,545 member
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  • Make Mine Mink (1960)
    Starring: Terry-Thomas,  Irene Handl,  Francesca Annis
    Director: John Boulting,  Mari,  Robert Asher
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Dame Beatrice Appleby (Athene Seyler) receives a fur coat from her ex-jailbird maid Lily (Billie Whitelaw) she can't help but suspect that it was stolen. In order to set things right she gathers together a team of local misfits, headed by the eccentric Major Rayne (Terry-Thomas), and draws up ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 632 members
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  • Too Many Crooks (1958)
    Starring: Terry-Thomas,  Irene Handl,  Francesca Annis
    Director: John B,  Mario Zampi,  Robert Asher
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Fingers (George Cole) and his gang of crooks seem to be having a run of bad luck, as they keep botching one job after another. When they try to rob the wealthy philanderer Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they manage to get things wrong once again and end up kidnapping his wife Lucy (Brenda Da Banzie) ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 828 members
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  • Private's Progress (1956)
    Starring: Terry-Thomas,  Irene Handl,  Francesca Annis
    Director: John Boulting,  Mari,  Robert Asher
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Upper class twit Windrush (Ian Carmichael) causes military mayhem when he joins up in the army. An inept soldier, he unwittingly becomes involved in his high-ranking uncle's (Dennis Price) scam to appropriate some rather valuable spoils of war - a haul of German jewels. A sequel followed with 'I'm ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 693 members
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  • Follow A Star on DVD
    Starring: Norman Wisdom,  June Laverick,  Jerry Desmonde
    Director: Robert Asher
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Norman Wisdom plays a shop worker (imaginatively also named Norman, as indeed is every character he has ever portrayed) who dreams of becoming a famous singer. His attempts are, of course, disastrous, until he is encouraged by music teacher Miss Dobson, and a crippled girl named Judy.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 589 members
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