bank holiday double feature – between 1 and somewhere before phil starts
2 vintage comedy movies
synopsis from IMDB users.
1300: Kill or Cure (1962)
A reprobate photographer and part time private investigator is hired by a batty old woman to go undercover into a health farm to investigate a suspicious death. Stars Erik Sykes and Terry Thomas
1431: The Cheap Detective (1978)
Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), the cheap detective has entered a world that is half Casablanca (1942) and half The Maltese Falcon (1941). A parody of Humphrey Bogart’s movies in which Lou goes through a series of scenes from the two movies trying to keep ahead of the police who think he killed his partner and find the black bird
finishes about 4pm
OTHBHDF
Of Kill or Cure the Radio Times said “This is the kind of comedy that could have killed off the British film industry..”
Another film critic wrote “Flatfooted and unprofessional murder farce whose only pace is slow.”
it looked like a perfect middle of the day throwaway film fodder