Benny Hill - El Cheapo Films

[IsrFer]

Hahahahahah, i looked for it years, years...

[PRITTYBOYFLOYD64]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED BENNY HILL..NEVER MISSED a show

[netwalker72]

Absolute Masterpiece.

The very best of Benny...

How I miss this guy... but a genius like this man is immortal, because continue living in her own legacy...

[contessaoreilly]

Amateur film making at its best. Enjoyed it very much.

[moslemssuck]

LOL! "Some non entity I suppose?" "The Bem (?) boys don't like (splice) titties!" One of Benny's best.

[Checksum001]

"I`ve often admired her-- bottom!"

"Brown hair, slim waist-- big tips!"

"he-- SHIPS, all over the world!"

"...After this we`ll go straight!"

"Harry, are you trying to tell me something?"

"The Ben-boys don`t like --titties!"

These are outrageously funny! XD

[MutatedIguana]

4:05 DUCK!!!

[Pinchbeck]

Classic, classic stuff!

[Edhallick]

Who ever made this doesnt know the first thing about film making. The editing is atrocious, not to mention the sound. And has it ever occurred to the idiot who made this that the man knocked over practically everything in the room? Is this audience just suppose to ignore all that? And I thought Ed Wood was the worst!

[wmbrown6]

Here, all these bad editing, continuity, sound etc., were deliberate. As if to be used as a training film to would-be technicians coming to Thames to say, "Don't do what you're seeing here." As noted above, Mr. Hill did another "badly edited" film on one of his BBC shows in 1964, called "Secret Agent of Love," as on "The Lost Years" DVD. So this was not new for ol' Ben.

[tfar0002]

thats d joke m8. many benny hill sketches are based upon making fun of films and making these mistakes on purpose. take a look at a few more benny hill and you'll notice this

[Route625]

You're missing the point. That's the whole purpose of this clip. Making fun of badly produced films. Evidently you haven't seen much of Benny Hill's skits.

[Rbatty2]

One of my favorite of Benny's sketches. It still kills me!

[TomRaymondUK]

Looks like a Derek Ford or Alan Birkinshaw film! (If you fancy doing a little research to back up this claim, check out What's Up Superdoc and Killer's Moon!)

[Peterolen]

very funny!

[tregibbs]

Does anyone know where I can find, "Whose Afraid of Virgin Wool"?  I purchased the A&E Benny Hill #3 and it wasn't on there...

[wmbrown6]

That was originally aired April 21, 1976, and was on Set 3, Disc #2, Program #3. Only it isn't individually indexed, it's part of a whole section called "Continuity Announcer."

[wmbrown6]

I think Anika Pavel's line was to be "The bank boys . . . ", but of course with her Czech accent, it would sound like Ben.

[tregibbs]

"That hee-man man of mine got a hernia inhaling a filter cigarette!"

[tregibbs]

My favorite is: "That doctor insisted on giving me a complete examination - I had to take off all of my clothes." "Do you mind? I'm eating." and "I use Ponds" "So does a duck!"

Hilarious!

[tregibbs]

WHERE can I find Who's Afraid of Virgin Wool ?????

[wmbrown6]

It is on DVD - in the U.S., on A&E Video's "Complete & Unadulterated - Set 3," and in the U.K., on Network Video's "Benny Hill Annual - 1976."

[wmbrown6]

I forgot the other two "Virgin Wool" co-stars: eve McQueen and Dirk Bog.

[wmbrown6]

What you cited truly would qualify as the among the "best" of Benny Hill. Not the fixation on T&A that marred his early 1980's shows especially.

Don't forget "Who's Afraid of Virgin Wool's" co-stars, including gory Peck, Roger Moo and rank Sin.

[wmbrown6]

P.S. The role of "Midnight" here was played by Anika Pavel, who'd played an "Arab beauty" in the 1977 James Bond flick "The Spy Who Loved Me." And I may be wrong, but I think that was Alison Bell as "Lady Cynthia Ramsbottom," in her first "TBHS" appearance.

[wmbrown6]

Back in 1964, Hill did a "cheap" film ostensibly by "J. Arthur Clinker" called "Secret Agent of Love" - which for years was used by the BBC as a "how-not-to" primer for people first coming to work for the BBC's film crew. I don't know if Thames used this version for the same purpose, or not. This (originally from his 35th Thames special of April 25, 1979) is still entertaining, though.

[lengoldstein]

Thanks for the background info. My source says the version by J. Arthur Clinker, "the world's fastest film director," was aired on both the 11/6/64 and, by popular demand, 4/10/65 specials. I believe the Clinker clip is (or was) available on a VHS tape titled Bennies from Heaven, though I've never seen it. The show #55 I used was from the A&E series, but I'm sure you're aware that US shows were in many cases made up of bits from different British programs mixed together willy-nilly.

[wmbrown6]

All the VHS tapes that made up this collection of his BBC sketches, "The Lost Years," is now out on DVD, so you can look for it (and yes, that sketch aired on both the shows in question). As for this jumbling of sketches from individual Thames shows for syndication: Oh boy, am I aware. Seeing a 1981 sketch followed by one from '69 which in turn is followed by a 1976 sketch which comes before another from '73 . . . enough to make one's head spin.