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	[[Anchor Bay Entertainment]] released the movie on DVD in 2001 for Region 1 format; it would later be re-released by [[Lionsgate]] Home Entertainment following Lionsgate's 2016 acquisition of Anchor Bay.		[[Anchor Bay Entertainment]] released the movie on DVD in 2001 for Region 1 format; it would later be re-released by [[Lionsgate]] Home Entertainment following Lionsgate's 2016 acquisition of Anchor Bay.

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	\| producer = John Robins<br />[[Roy Skeggs]]		\| producer = John Robins<br />[[Roy Skeggs]]

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{{Short description|1974 British film by John Robins}}
{{more citations needed|date=July 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}

{{Infobox film
| name = The Best of Benny Hill
| image = The Best of Benny Hill cover.jpg

| caption = US DVD Cover
| director = John Robins
| producer = John Robins<br />[[Roy Skeggs]]
| writer = [[Benny Hill]]
| narrator =
| starring = [[Benny Hill]]
| music = Benny Hill<br />[[Boots Randolph]]
| cinematography =
| editing =
| studio = [[Euston Films]]<br>([[Thames Television]])
| distributor = [[EMI Films]]
| released = {{Film date|1974}}
| runtime = 83 min.
| country = [[United Kingdom|UK]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| budget =
}}

'''''The Best of Benny Hill''''' is a 1974 film version of material from the television comedy series ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]''. This movie features sketches from the early [[Thames Television]] years, from 1969 to 1973. The sketches in the film are from episodes produced and directed by John Robins.<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=The Best of Benny Hill |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150017136 |access-date=22 August 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref>

== Contents ==
Sketches include:
* Ye Olde Wishing Well (19 November 1969) - including an appearance by [[David Prowse]]
* Lower Tidmarsh Hospital Service (19 November 1969)
* Spuddo Blooper (19 November 1969) - parodies of television adverts, for products such as margarine and mashed potato.
* "Throw Open" Blooper (19 November 1969)
* The Life of Maurice Dribble (25 December 1969)
* Tommy Tupper in Tupper-Time (4 February 1970) - a parody of [[Simon Dee]] and the chat show ''Dee Time''
* Song: "My Garden Of Love" (11 March 1970)
* The Party Blooper (11 March 1970)
* "After Dinner with Charlotte Fudge" Blooper (11 March 1970)
* Boutique Mask Dance (28 October 1970)
* Love Will Find A Way (27 January 1971; presented in black and white, as production occurred during ITV's [[Colour Strike]])
* The Grass Is Greener (24 March 1971)
* Fred Scuttle's Health Farm and Keep Fit Brigade (23 February 1972)
* Pierre De Tierre: Avant-Garde French Film Director (23 February 1972)
* Chow-Mein at Customs and Immigration (23 February 1972)
* Benny's All-Star Finale (23 February 1972) - including Benny Hill's impersonations of [[Nana Mouskouri]], [[Moira Anderson]] and [[Gilbert O'Sullivan]]
* Escaped Convict Chase Sequence (23 February 1972)

== Cast ==
*[[Benny Hill]]
*[[Patricia Hayes]]
*[[Henry McGee]]
*[[Nicholas Parsons]]
*[[Bob Todd]]
*[[Jackie Wright]]
*[[Andrée Melly]]
*[[Rita Webb]]
*[[Lesley Goldie]]
*[[Jackie Wright]]
*[[Penny Meredith]]
*[[Michael Sharvell-Martin]]
*[[Bettina Le Beau]]
*[[Jenny Lee-Wright]]
*[[David Prowse]]
*[[Pamela Cundell]]
*[[Arthur Hewlett]]
*[[Roy Scammell]]
*[[David Hamilton (broadcaster)|David Hamilton]]
*[[Ken Sedd]]
*[[Freddie Wiles]]

== Production ==
The original programs were recorded on [[videotape]] (studio interiors) and shot on [[16 mm film]] (location footage); the videotaped material was transferred to [[35 mm movie film|35 mm film]] as a [[telerecording]], and the 16 mm footage was blown up to 35 mm.

== Reception ==
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "This questionably titled anthology features material that has been directly lifted (complete with studio audience laughter) from several series of ''The Benny Hill Show'', some of them quite archaic (Tupper Time is a parody of Simon Dee's programmes). The quality of the videotape transfers is variable, with everything that is not in close-up tending towards distortion. The quality of the comedy, however, is consistent: basic British sauce – delivered with much nudging, winking and leering – that reveals Hill's obsession with the comic possibilities of speeded-up film and of being found attractive by both men and women. As a writer, Hill is too often content to contrive his material to fit his jokes; as a performer, he seems to have reached his prime in the late Fifties."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1974 |title=The Best of Benny Hill |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305838729/F367B3B7167B4599PQ/1 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=41 |issue=480 |pages=144 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

== Home media releases ==
The british film distributor Walton Films released a shortened edition of the movie on three Super 8 film reels.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}

[[Anchor Bay Entertainment]] released the movie on DVD in 2001 for Region 1 format; it would later be re-released by [[Lionsgate]] Home Entertainment following Lionsgate's 2016 acquisition of Anchor Bay.

It was released by Network on DVD and [[Blu-ray]] in Region 2 format in 2016.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title}}

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[[Category:Films based on television series]]
[[Category:1974 comedy films]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:1970s English-language films]]
[[Category:1970s British films]]
[[Category:Films edited from television programs]]

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