Fawlty Towers - The Complete Collection [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	John Cleese Prunella Scales Andrew Sachs Connie Booth Ballard Berkeley
	Video by:	Fox Home Entertainme
	Sales Rank:	173676

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Actor(s):
John Cleese
Prunella Scales
Andrew Sachs
Connie Booth
Ballard Berkeley

Recording label: Fox Home Entertainme
EAN: 9786305076469
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6305076464
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 1998-09-15
Universal product code (UPC): 086162054136
Number of discs: 4
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

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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

Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Original Language)