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Jack Ahoy (1934)

Starring Jack Hulbert. A song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor... £7.49

 

Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)

Starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans... £7.49

 

Jack’s The Boy (1932)

Starring Jack Hulbert……£7.49

 

Jamaica Inn (1939)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. Set in Cornwall where the young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are the landlords of the Jamaica Inn. Mary soon realizes that her uncle's inn is the base of a gang of pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast. The girl starts fearing for her life....£7.49

 

Java Head (1934)

Starring John Loder, Anna May Wong, Edmund Gwenn and Ralph Richardson……£7.49

 

Jayne Eyre (1934)

Starring Colin Clive and Virginia Bruce……£7.49

 

Jazz Singer, The (1927)

The very first talkie!! Starring Al Jolson……£7.49

 

Jitterbugs (1943)

Directed by Malcolm St Clair and starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivian Blaine and Robert Bailey, this film has a runtime of 74 mins and the print quality is excellent.

Plot: The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.

Review: Although lacking in much of the standard L & H humor, this film has other merits going for it. Ollie's impersonation of Southern gentleman Colonel Watterson Bixby of Amadillo County, Texas offers him the felicitous opportunity to play a character close to his own Southern upbringing. Once again in drag, Stan's characterization of Bostonian dowager, Emily Cartwright, offers him the joyous occasion of reusing his Lord Paddinton upper-crust accent tempered with a slight nuance of local Boston color. The scenes in which they appear are a sheer delight chiefly because they carry it off with such finesse and aplomb. Fans may be disappointed at the lack of the usual slapstick, but Stan and Ollie are so splendid in the roles within roles that they more than easily compensate for it. This film as well as "The Bullfighters", with its more tried and true formula, make these two outings the best of their Twentieth Century Fox excursion….£7.49

 

Jour De Fete (1949)

Written and directed by Jacques Tati and starring Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli and Maine Vallee, this film has a runtime of 77 mins and the print quality is excellent. This is the restored colour version of the film that was though lost for many years. It is a French language film with English subtitles.

Plot: On a public holiday, the village square hosts a little travelling fair and cinema tent. Among the locals introduced is François, the amiable and bumbling mailman, who everybody likes but nobody takes seriously. Marcel and Roger, the two men running the fair, make him their butt and get him drunk. In the cinema tent, people watch a spoof documentary about the unbelievable efficiency of the US postal service, comparing it with antiquated French methods. They decide that François must get up to date and, although he only has a bicycle, must start using transatlantic dash in his delivery. In the end, exhausted by his frantic efforts, he stops to help a family pitchfork their new-mown hay into a horse-drawn cart.

Review: Jour de fête is a very funny movie about François (played by Jacques Tati himself), the local postman who want to be as fast as the postmen in America. The camera work is excellent so is the cinematography. Very joyful movie too. The music score is great and it's a good way to show «l'ambiance de fête» that lives in the village.
I really enjoyed that movie. The only little drawback, and it's not really one, it's the regional french dialect used in this movie. I'm french-speaking and even I had some difficulty to understand some of Tati's lines….£7.49

 

Judge Priest (1934)

Perhaps the best known of Will Rogers' films. Will Rogers plays the lead roll, that of Judge William "Billy" Priest in a very patriotic (Confederate) southern town. Priest plays a laid-back, widowed judge who helps uphold the law in his toughest court case yet. In the meantime, he plays matchmaker for his young nephew....£7.49

 

Juno and the Paycock (1930)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock……£7.49

 

Just Imagine (1930)

Starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Hobart Bosworth and Mischa Auer in this excellent print of the film with a runtime of 108 mins…..£7.49

 

Just My Luck (1957)

Starring Norman Wisdom……£7.49

 

Just William (1940)

Directed by Graham Cutts and starring Richard Lupino, Fred Emney, Basil Radford and Roddy MacDowell, this film has a runtime of 69 mins and the print quality is ok.

Review: I had the pleasure of meeting Richard Lupino at several sessions of New York's Silent Clowns showings of short comedies of his uncle Lupino Lane and father, George Lupino. I wouldn't have recognized him as the star of this movie, because he didn't wear a schoolboy cap, striped scarf and short pants, and was more than sixty years older than the 10-year old boy in the movie, who kindly but thoughtlessly gets into all sorts of mischief in a small English village, abetted by pals, including Roddy MacDowall. In a world populated by pompous and stupid adults, including Basil Radford and Amy Veness, it's a mild and amusing film version of Richmal Crompton's beloved series of stories.
It's noteworthy as the last feature directed by Graham Cutts. During the late silent period, he was considered one of the leading British directors, but he seems to have alienated too many people while on top -- including Alfred Hitchcock -- so that when he began to slide, there wasn't much support for him in the British studios' ranks.…£7.49

 

Just William’s Luck (1947)

Directed by Val Guest and starring William Graham, John Powe, Muriel Aked and Hugh Cross, this film has a runtime of 87 mins and the print quality is ok to good.

Review: A cheaply made b&w post-War British family film, revolving around 11 yo William Brown, his long-suffering family and his Outlaw gang. Not a lot of money was wasted here, there's whole stretches of silent movie - especially noticeable at the climax where the frenetic action and tense music tries to disguise the fact no-one speaks for 10 minutes.
The Outlaws see themselves as Nites of the Square Table Wrighting Rongs - sort of quasi-Quixotic - and after an hour of adventures with local luminaries such as a glamorous film star and an erudite tramp get involved with a gang of fur smugglers. The book by Richmal Crompton followed later with Val Guest's screenplay being rewritten in places to tighten up on characterisation slippage. But basically William's World is intact and Garry Marsh for my money was the best Mr. Brown ever, even if a little bit too bald. William Graham as William himself was in character - pity about his gang of hair though!
A nice film for fans but not much here for people who've never read a William story.……£7.49

 

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