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Private Schulz (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
309 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1981 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Robert Chetwyn

Written By:
Jack Pulman

Actors:
Michael Elphick ..... Private Schulz
Ian Richardson ..... Major Neuheim
Billie Whitelaw ..... Bertha Freyer
Cyril Shaps ..... Solly
David Swift ..... Professor Bodelschwingh
Ken Campbell ..... Krauss
Ernest Clark ..... Fritsch
Gawn Grainger ..... Hitler
John Judd ..... Warden
Trevor T. Smith ..... Captain Ohm
John Cording ..... Kube
Terence Suffolk ..... Schumacher
Walter Sparrow ..... Becker
Vernon Dobtcheff ..... Sturmer
Darlene Johnson ..... Kitty
Michael Wells ..... Withers
Trevor Jones ..... 1st Officer
Alla Sharova ..... Violinist
Ronald Baddiley ..... Newsreel commentator (uncredited)
Carl Davis ..... Pianist at Salon Kitty (uncredited)

Synopsis:

Popular comedy drama series from the early 1980s, which won a posthumous British Television Society award for writer Jack Pulman, about a WWII conman reluctantly seconded into the SS, who dreams up a plan to swamp Britain with fake five-pound notes. When convict Schulz (Michael Elphick) is released from his work in an underpants factory into the caring arms of the SS, he hopes he can simply sit out the war and maybe accumulate some illicit funds along the way. Soon though, he's helping to capture British agents and bugging the rooms of the German soldiers' favourite brothel. When he witnesses the British dropping propoganda leaflets on the German population, he has an inspiration, coming up with the idea of flooding the British Isles with fake fivers. Always at odds with his incompetent SS boss Major Neuheim (Ian Richardson), Schulz eagerly sets out to get his plan off the ground, and hopefully line his pockets at the same time.

In this comic send-up of dramas set in urban schools (such as Lean on Me and Dangerous Minds), Jon Lovitz plays Richard Clark, a teacher who is persuaded to give up his position at Wellington Academy, an upscale private school (where the receptionist cheerfully answers calls with the question "Are you white?"), to take over a class at Marion Barry High School in Inner City, U.S.A. Marion Barry High is a far cry from the ivory-tower atmosphere of Wellington; the statue in the courtyard holds a crack pipe, the Michigan Militia sets up a booth for career day, and there's so much violence on campus that the school has its own graveyard; however, Clark is determined to reach his thick-headed charges, and he hopes to also make an impression on Victoria Chappell (Tia Carrere), a beautiful woman also on the teaching staff. Clark does battle with Evelyn Doyle (Louise Fletcher), the school's militaristic principal, in an effort to raise standards for the school's star straight-C students, and he finds that he's getting through to one of the school's toughest students, Grig (Mekhi Phifer). Screenwriters Pat Proft and David Zucker helped create The Naked Gun and its follow-ups.

The war has come to an end, leaving Schulz destitute, forced to pawn his remaining possesions. However, he discovers the map he parachuted into England with in 1940. Suddenly there is hope that he will be able to retrieve part of the lost fortune.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 04 April, 2009.

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