Though not the Hancock character well known from the later TV shows, Hancock's performance in this remarkably silly film is the best thing in it as he drills his military musicians.

The Rebel - 1960

(re-titled 'Call Me Genius!', for the US market)

Frustrated creative artiste and bored City clerk, Hancock decides to escape across the Channel to la vie de Bohéme. So it's farewell East Cheam, au revoir Railway Cuttings. Off to Paris he goes, resolved to be a successful artist - or cut off his ear...

Associated British / Warner-Pathé, 105mins

Running time of video release: 101mins (according to packaging)

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Mrs Cravatte (Irene Handl) comes to investigate the strange banging sounds in Hancock's bedroom: 'I can't allow ammering in my rooms'. She is even less pleased with him when she sees the cause, and after an altercation tells him to get out.

The fortune teller (Hattie Jacques) Wally, and the Sandman (John LeMesurier) in a scene not in the finished film; Hattie Jacques, makes only a brief appearance.

The Punch and Judy Man - 1962

The one and only Hancock is a melancholy Punch and Judy man trying to establish himself as an important citizen in the seaside town where he performs with his partner, Hugh Lloyd. When his snobbish wife is taught a lesson at an important social function, it looks like the British comic genius may just get the hilarious new lease of life he's always dreamed of.

MacConkey Productions / Warner-Pathé, 96mins

Running time of video release: 89mins (according to packaging)

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Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines - 1965

The setting: England in the year 1910. The occasion: the first International Air Race from London to Paris. The prize: £10,000 put up by a wealthy newspaper proprietor determined to prove that Britannia rules the air as well as the waves. A large-scale comedy classic, packed with stuntwork and spectacular flying scenes and including the late great Tony Hancock in it's all star cast.

20th-Century-Fox, 132mins

Running time of video release: 127mins (according to packaging)

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Hancock as Harry Popperwell, who proposes to enter the London to Paris air race of 1910 by flying backwards ('less air resistance'). He is last seen heading in the direction of Scotland.

Hancock and Dudley Moore chat between takes. In a way an ironic photograph, for Moore - then only known for his British TV appearances with Peter Cook - was later to go to Hollywood and achieve exactly the kind of international comic stardom which Hancock hoped for.

The Wrong Box - 1966

Tony Hancock appears as a detective who attempts to unravel the plot at the end of this adaptation of the novel. Hancock is given little enough to do, merely expressing exasperation when faced with the convolutions at the end of this extremely complicated plot involving a Tontine, mistaken identities, and a corpse in a grand piano. He attacks his part with gusto, but tends to be swamped, as are many of the cast, by the inclination of the writers to 'improve' the original by the addition of a wide variety of intrusive comic devices.

Salamander / BLC / Columbia, 110mins

Running time of video release: 102mins (according to packaging)

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