Arthur Lowe

A mistaken address causes a newlywed couple's apartment to fill up with mail-order Swiss porn... right before a visit by the wife's father, a bank president who happens to be the husband's new employer. From the Broadway play. Porn-shop owner Pete, orders some new stuff from his supplier Niko, but Niko mixes up the address with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, newlyweds David (the bank's assistant manager) and Penny Hunter are shocked when first photos, then films, and finally two girls are sent to them in the Bank's flat. They and their friend, head cashier Brian Runnicles (who starts to have a nervous breakdown), must deal with getting rid of the porn without letting their boss Mr. Bromley--the bank's very anti-porn manager, the local police in the form of Inspector Paul, and David's mother Bertha even suspect what is happening. —Lee Horton <Leeh@tcp.co.uk> Illegal pornography has been flooding the streets of urban England. Local dealer Pete Hunter, whose shop is located at 313 High Street, orders some pornographic photographs from his supplier, Niko, who addresses the package to "P. Hunter" and inadvertently sends it to 131 High Street instead. At that address is a Barclays Bank branch, and upstairs is a flat belonging to the bank where bank executive David and his wife Penny, just back from their honeymoon, live; their last name is also Hunter. When the package arrives at 131, David and Penny, thinking that the P. Hunter is her, are horrified at the contents, not only because of the salacious material, but also because David's boss, Mr. Bromley, has previously fired without question others who possessed such materials. David's bank colleague, head cashier Brian Runnicles, helps them try to dispose of the photos before they're seen by Mr. Bromley, David's visiting mother Bertha, or the police. But getting rid of the evidence is more difficult than they expect and Pete Hunter just keeps ordering more porn which gets delivered to 131. —Huggo

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition. Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart (Vincent Price) is a matinèe favorite Shakespearean actor of the old school, finding difficulty coping with new theater roles, who wreaks revenge on on the theater critics who give their annual Guild's "Best Actor" award to a new and upcoming actor rather than him. Incensed by their choice, he does this in the most ingenious and disturbing ways by imitating death scenes taken from his final repertoire of his beloved Bard's tales. Vincent Price is well supported by Dame Diana Rigg, as his dutiful daughter Edwina, and a bevy of the cream of British character actors, including; Ian Hendry, Sir Michael Hordern, Dennis Price, Robert Morley, and Arthur Lowe. —Brian Carruthers Edward Lionheart is an experienced Shakespearean actor who plays to packed theaters and is very popular among theatre audiences. But he is habitually treated with scorn and ridicule by professional critics. At an awards show, a critics' committee ignores him and gives the best actor award to a novice actor. Facing despair, Lionheart apparently commits suicide and the critics are amused by his demise. Secretly, a group of homeless people rescue Lionheart from a drowning death and agree to help him as he seeks revenge. Two years following his apparent death, Lionheart sets out to destroy the critics who ruined his life. He stages a series of murders and other crimes which are specifically based on violent scenes from William Shakespeare's plays. —Dimos I Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart (Vincent Price) is as an actor overlooked for a critics' acting award, despite producing a season of Shakespearean plays. After confronting the Critics' Circle, an attempted suicidal dive into the Thames results in Lionheart being rescued by your typical paraffin/meths/turps swigging tramps. Lionheart then (presumed dead) exacts his grizzly, and quite amusing, revenge on the critics who denied him his finest hour. —Paul Batey A serial killer stalks London, targeting theater critics who he kills in methods inspired by Shakespearean plays. The police grow to suspect the killer is Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart (Vincent Price), an egotistical actor who leapt to his presumed death after being denied an important award, mainly due to his refusing to appear in any play not written by William Shakespeare. The remaining critics and the Police find themselves helpless to stop Lionheart's increasingly baroque revenge, though they contact his daughter, Edwina (Dame Diana Rigg), in a desperate attempt to find something they can use against him. Everything builds to a reenactment of King Lear in which Lionheart will succeed or die once and for all. —rmlohner

The misadventures of a ragtag group of elderly Home Guard local defense volunteers at the onset of WW2. When World War Two breaks out, the small seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea finds itself less than ably defended by the elderly and inept members of Captain Mainwaring's home guard unit. Put on manoeuvres by a visiting Major-General, Mainwaring's men manage to bungle one task after another. However, when a group of Germans from a scout plane take the Mayor hostage at the church hall, the clueless soldiers might still have a chance of saving the day! —Anonymous