| Are You Being Served? - The Movie [1977] |
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| Front Cover |
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| John Inman |
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| Mollie Sugden |
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| Frank Thornton |
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| Trevor Bannister |
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| Wendy Richard |
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| Arthur Brough |
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| Nicholas Smith |
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| Harold Bennett |
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| Arthur English |
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| Karan David |
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| Plot |
| Writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft managed something quite clever with this, the film version of the 1970s sitcom Are You Being Served?. The idea of this cheery collection of comedy stereotypes--the pompous one, the vulgar one, the camp one, the shifty one and so on--being confined within a department store was a master stroke, as it allowed any kind of situation to arise without the plot having to exceed the restrictions imposed by the set. How, then, to keep the same theme for the big screen without just offering the television series writ large? Simple: send the whole cast on holiday together but make sure they can't leave their hotel, a state of affairs contrived easily enough by throwing a guerilla uprising into the plot. So it is, then, that the staff of Grace Bros. descend on the Costa Plonka while the store is closed for refurbishment. There are all the usual jokes involving knickers, boobs, toilets and gay sex (sometimes all at once), adding up to a good slice of nostalgic fun for anyone who was there when lapels really were that wide. Incidentally, this item is worth having just for the wonderful Frank Langford caricatures on the cover. On the DVD: Are You Being Served? comes to the digital format with just one extra item, a trailer.--Roger Thomas |
| Movie Details |
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| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
Parental Guidance |
| Running Time |
91 mins |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
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DVD |
| Seen It |
No |
| Index |
273 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 2 |
| UPC (Barcode) |
7321900381482 |
| Release Date |
22/04/2002 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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