Vintage Classics Comedy Collection (John Boulting;Robert Hamer;Frank Launder;John Schlesinger;David Lean;) (DVD / Box Set)

Collection of classic British comedies. In 'Billy Liar' 1963 undertaker's clerk Billy Tom Courtenay escapes his dreary small-town existence by living in a fantasy world where he realises his ambitions. When his job, unsympathetic working-class family and two fiances threaten to become too much, he meets fashionable Liz Julie Christie, who offers him his one chance for real escape. In 'School for Scoundrels' 1960 Henry Palfrey Ian Carmichael is one of life's losers. Despised and disregarded at work, his prospective girlfriend April Janette Scott is whisked from under his nose by charming bounder Raymond Delauney Terry-Thomas. In desperation, Henry enrols at Stephen Potter Alastair Sim's College of Lifemanship, where he gradually learns how to get one up on the other fellow. In 'Hobson's Choice' 1954 Lancashire bootmaker Henry Horatio Hobson Charles Laughton keeps a tight rein on his three daughters, until his eldest, Maggie Brenda De Banzie, marries his assistant Willie Mossop John Mills and sets him up in his own bootmaking firm. To Hobson's consternation, Willie soon becomes his father-in-law's main business rival. In 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' 1950 Nutborne is an all-boys school and content to stay that way, but after an evacuation of local private all-girls school, St. Swithins, the two educational establishments must find a way to co-exist as a battle of the sexes commences. A power struggle between Nutborne's headmaster Wetherby Pond Sim and St Swithins' headmistre
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