Terry-Thomas Collection Reviews

the best of classic British comedy

Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael), a loser in love and seemingly in life, takes the train to Yeovil to enrol in the College of Lifemanship, run by Mr Potter (Alastair Sim). Arriving late, Palfrey is forced to wait outside while Potter delivers his speech to the new students, which offers his philosophy in a nutshell: if you're not one up, you're one down. Palfrey takes a number of classes at the College in order to learn 'ploys', to ensure that one is always one up on one's opponent.

Thoroughly good fun.

Make Mine Mink

Rather disappointing. Star studded, but a poor plot

Easy to watch.

These old films are great. very easy to watch, with both subtle and obvious humour. A nice range of actors from the time. My children aged 10 and 11 also enjoyed them and laughed out loud.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Slighty Aged

School for Scoundrels has unfortunately aged more than any of the others. Terry-Thomas, however, is his always watchable self.

School for Scoundrels

Brilliant easy to watch 50s British comedy good clean humour Terry Thomas at his best.

Classic

What a classic.

I recently brought a book called Influence - the power of pursuesion, to find out the tricks that sales people use to sell, what I completely forgot was that this film is based on exatly that, its the comedy of how we fall for the Influence of other people. Classic, there is nothing better than watching Terry Thomas films on a raining afternoon.

Make Mine Mink, Too Many Crooks

I adore the casts in these 2 films - Terry Thomas of course, but also Hattie Jacques, George Cole, Bernard Bresslaw. And that's just as well, because these sub-Ealing comedies are by the rote. Make Mine Mink has an especially contrived plot, Too Many Crooks is better, but possibly too mannered - if it had a touch of darkness about it like The Lady Killers it could have been very memorable. But the cast carries the day in both, and if you have a wet Sunday afternoon to fill, you could do worse!

Great fun!

School for scoundrels is an all time favourite of mine with its classic devious tactics of 'oneupmanship'.Thomas,Carmichael and Sim all excell in this great british romp!

Nearly but not quite. . .

While not quite in the class of an Ealing Comedy, this film must rank as one of the 'nearly' great British comedies. The plot couldn't be more British, prominent people with things to hide blackmailed by caddish Dennis Price, each going there own way about dealing with him until circumstances compells them to join forces. With the exception of Shirley Eaton, who contributes little more than glamour, the acting is first rate with Joan Simms stealing the show. The dissapointing ending is the only down side giving the impression the writers ran out of ideas. Overall a comedy not to be missed if you're a fan of the gendre. But for the ending it could have been so much better!

Classic

These are the films our kids should be watching. Classic, clean comedies, with the “Sunday Family Movie” feel to them.

With a cast that works together seamlessly, and characters you can easily like, this is a great example of comedy coined in the Sid James era.