Crooks In Cloisters [DVD] [1964]

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Our online collections hold information on over 800,000 film titles – including television programmes, documentaries, newsreels, as well as educational and training films. Though to be fair on the film, I really wished I appreciated it more, I think by when you get to the fourth film in one day, you just got no brainpower left, even if you have been watching low thinking films before this. Cribbins and Jeffries hooked up again on another children’s classic, The Water Babies (1978), but the same year was to be found playing Gertrude Stein in the surreal Swedish comedy The Adventures of Picasso.

The area, which lies behind the old stable and coach house, was used as the site of the current Fairhaven building that was constructed in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s. But Cribbins was careful to avoid typecasting and seized opportunities to co-star with William Holden in The World of Suzie Wong, Richard Basehart in Passport to China (both 1960), and David Niven in the Golden Globe-nominated combat comedy The Best of Enemies (1961). All these pictures were based on the same premise - a gang of lovable crooks plan a daring robbery, only to foul it up completely. At the time of writing, the second series of the new adaptation of Poldark is being filmed at various locations throughout Cornwall. Windsor did more television than cinema, notably taking 2 different characters in The Rag Trade (1961-63) and playing key roles in the various small-screen Carry On spin-offs.However, her crowning glory was the 1,668-episode run as Peggy Mitchell, the landlady of the Queen Vic on Albert Square, who had to deal with the added burden of being the mother of trouble magnets Phil (Steve McFadden) and Grant (Ross Kemp).

But comic songs were only one of the reasons why Cribbins, who has died at the age of 93, became a genuine national treasure. There is no beating around the bush here, anyone outside of Britain are advised to stay well clear of this very British caper. Ashridge House, Ashridge near Berkhamstead in Hertfordshire which is also seen in 'Dracula: Prince of Darkness'.

Blessed with insouciant versatility, he was able to switch between musicals, revues, farces and dramas. Little Walter, his moll Bikini and the rest of the gang escape to a Cornish island where they plan to hide out in a monastery disguised as monks. Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. Crooks In Cloisters" is the kind of comic movie that is unlikely to be ever made again, mores the pity. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps.