Norman Wisdom Double Feature VOL 4: Follow A Star & The Bulldog Breed

1960s British slapstick comedy - Great restoration but you need to like Wisdom's humor
I have to give a lot of credit to the folks at VCI who have been re-issuing lots of DVDs from the British distributor The Rank Organisation. They've remastered the prints and they look great. This is the fourth "double-feature" DVD that they have issued of British comedian Norman Wisdom made in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The black and white print is pristine and the 1:33.1/4x3 screen aspect is the original.
I wanted to watch the first film, "Follow A Star" first, because of its musical numbers. Wisdom actually wrote two of the three songs. At first Wisdom reminded me of George Formby (actual name George Formby Jr.) who made some really funny British musical comedies in the late 1930s. But I found Formby was less slapstick than Wisdom and actually could sing well. He had many hit records. After the first 10 minutes the comedy - while physical - started to remind me of the Three Stooges. Comedy is subjective and if the Stooges are your idea of funny then you'll probably like...





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