New on Blu-ray: MAN IN A COCKED HAT aka CARLTON-BROWNE OF THE F.O. (1959) Starring Terry Thomas, Peter Sellers & Luciana Paoluzzi

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Product Description: 2025 HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative! Man in a Cocked Hat (a.k.a. Carlton-Browne of the F.O.) is a classic Cold War satire from the Boulting Brothers (I'm All Right Jack, Heavens Above!) featuring an uproarious Peter Sellers (The Ladykillers) performance. When valuable mineral deposits are discovered on the forgotten British colony of Gaillardia, the Foreign Office sends bumbling envoy Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne (Terry-Thomas, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World) to investigate. But while negotiating with their gleefully corrupt Prime Minister Amphibulos (Sellers), Carlton-Browne is convinced to split the tiny island in half, sparking a revolution that leads to an international nuclear showdown with the Russians. Can the Empire's most disastrous diplomat now restore relations before the Cold War comes to a boil?

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I'M ALL RIGHT JACK (1959) - Blu-ray Release of Classic British Comedy Starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers

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Product Description: Featuring an award-winning and uproarious performance from Peter Sellers (The Ladykillers), I’m All Right Jack is a classic British comedy with a satirical edge. Sellers plays both the stuffy financier Sir John Kennaway and the tragicomic trade union leader Fred Kite. The result is laugh-out-loud farce that lampoons labor relations. Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price) plans to make a fortune from a munitions contract, a scheme that involves manipulating his innocent nephew Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) into acting as the catalyst in a missile factory strike, from which the socialist Mr. Kite is only too keen to make capital. Featuring a superb supporting cast including Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl and Margaret Rutherford, this is an ingenious comedy about the British workplace and self-serving hypocrisy. Winner of British Academy Film Awards for Best British Screenplay and Best British Actor (Sellers), this raucous sequel to Private’s Progress (1956) is bought roaringly to life by Sellers’ astonishing turn as the Stalinist unionist Kite.

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DVD & Blu-ray: THE GREEN MAN (1956) Starring Alastair Sim

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Product Description: An irreverent black comedy adapted by Frank Launder (The Lady Vanishes) and Sidney Gilliat (Night Train to Munich) from their play Meet a Body, The Green Man marked the directorial debut of camera operator Robert Day (Tarzan the Magnificent). A scintillating Alastair Sim (An Inspector Calls) plays Hawkins, a timid watchmaker with a part-time job―he is also a professional assassin who bumps off the people we love to hate. But when pompous MP Sir Gregory Upshott (Raymond Huntley, So Evil My Love) is the intended target, bungling vacuum cleaner salesman William Blake (George Cole, Cleopatra) always gets in the way. As the time of the assassination draws even closer and Hawkins tracks his victim to a dilapidated seaside hotel called The Green Man, the laughs and the tension steadily rise to a brilliant climax. A perfect companion piece to Alexander Mackendrick’s The Ladykillers, The Green Man is an enormously entertaining farce that dutifully ticks all the genre’s expected boxes (mistaken identities, compromising positions, much panicking and slamming of doors). Co-starring comedy legend Terry-Thomas (Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies).

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