Fawlty Towers - The Complete Series
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790760414
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 079076041X
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 16, 2001
Running Time: 500 minutes
Sales Rank: 602
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Inspired by a hotel John Cleese once stayed in when he was filming 'Monty Python.' This complete set of Fawlty Towers episodes includes special new commentary by John Cleese. Please see individual volumes for episode descriptions.
Amazon.com essential video:
Basil Fawlty, as created and performed by John Cleese, is the rudest, most boorish, most hilariously obnoxious man on the face of the planet. What a natural for a TV sitcom! His screen wife, Sybil (Prunella Scales), put it best in the episode 'The Psychiatrist': 'You're either crawling all over them, licking their boots, or spitting poison at them like some Benzedrine puff adder.' He mockingly replies, 'Just trying to enjoy myself, dear.' With his gangly frame and contortionist abilities, Cleese brilliantly punctuates Basil's outrageous faux pas with absurd gymnastics and turns Three Stooges-style pokes and kicks into a slapstick ballet. Scales's Sybil is the genial but obliviously chatty voice of reason and Andrew Sachs mangles the English language as the Spanish bellhop Manuel, whose struggles with simple directions results in comic lunacy reminiscent of Robert Benigni. After a six-episode run in 1975, Cleese and cowriter and costar Connie Booth (who plays Polly, the maid all too often pulled into Basil's ridiculous plans) reunited the cast in 1979 for another six episodes without missing a punch line. The four-volume collection contains all 12 shows, interspersed with interview segments featuring Cleese discussing the genesis of the series and anecdotes about the individual episodes. Remember to watch the opening credits of each show to spot the creative misspellings on the hotel sign (my favorite: 'Fatty Owls'). --Sean Axmaker
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- Fawlty Towers, The Complete SeriesBeautifully packaged in perfect order and arrived in promised time. This will give me hours of laughs ... Read More
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- Great DVDBought this for my boyfriend who loves Fawlty Towers. It is the complete series and was great to watch. ... Read More
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- just great serviceI was very pleased with the whole process. I received the product ordered
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- The worst hotelier you can't stop watchingBasil Fawlty (John Cleese) is far from a perfect man. In fact he's a terrible terrible person. But you end up ... Read More
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- MUST see TVThis show was and remains lightyears ahead of anything on American TV. From start to finsih, it is sheer brilliance. ... Read More
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