Best British Comedy Movies of the 1930s - Volume 11 DVD Collection | Classic Vintage Films for Movie Nights & Home Entertainment

The series entitled "British Comedies of the 1930s" currently (June 2017) runs to eleven discs each containing at least two titles. (We say two titles since some discs carry additional material.)As might be expected, there is considerable variation in terms of picture and sound quality but on the whole standards are good considering the age of the originals. Likewise the titles range from quaint slapstick via funny to a little outside mere comedy. For example, the final film on disc eleven ("Housemaster") has its humorous moments but is in the main a serious and touching view of boys' public school life in the early to mid-1950s.I started off with volume three and, finding this to my rather old-fashioned tastes, went on by degrees to complete the set. Duration for each film range between around sixty minutes to ninety minutes, giving good value for money in viewing time.Here you will find some of those actors who went on to become standard quality in so-called character actors (Cecil Parker et al) and others who went on to stardom (John Mills).The humour can run fast with many plays on words of varying subtlety that justifies a second or third viewing. Moreover, many of the films make their point without clumsy and inappropriate background audios, something that plagues most contemporary cinematography.The discs are packaged in the more recent slender cases, the entire set of eleven running to no more than 80mm of shelf space.