The Best of Benny Hill
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Actor: Benny Hill, Eira Heath, Henry McGee, Nicholas Parsons, Patricia HayesDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-07-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
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DVD Review: "Best Of" - With a Qualification
Summary: 4 Stars
One factor for the quality of this film being as it is (not the video-to-film transfers which in and of themselves were nothing more than color kinescopes, but the quality of the material) has to do with the fact that this was drawn ONLY from shows produced between 1969 and 1972 (with the rendition of "Yakety Sax" as heard all through the picture, having originated from the Dec. 27, 1973 show), and produced/directed by one person, and one person only - John Robins. Nothing of Hill's work up to that period from other producer/directors - which, up to the point this was prepared, also included David Bell, Keith Beckett and Peter Frazer-Jones - were even considered for inclusion, unfortunately, given that (as some may have suggested) the shows from these "other" directors may have been an improvement over what's offered here.
Oh, and one more thing: In the "Lower Tidmarsh Hospital Service" sketch, there was a switcheroo in the music, with the original custom-scored medley as on the original Nov. 19, 1969 airing being replaced with a loop of the aforementioned 1973 version of "Yakety Sax" in the outdoor scenes and a stock-music piece heard in the hospital scenes. This may have had something to do with music clearance issues, from one of two possibilities: a) the use in the sketch as originally aired of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag," given that many Joplin tunes were heard in the then-recently released movie "The Sting"; or, more likely, b) the last song in the custom-scored medley, a cover of John Mayall's "Room to Move," which is perhaps his best-known tune from his most famous album, "The Turning Point."
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