Movies: Peter Sallis

This featurette from The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) details the history of Wallace and Gromit, their Oscar-winning short films and how Aardman Animations and DreamWorks came to work together....

A seaside resort in 1938. For Hilda, it seems as if romance almost died when she married school teacher Ernest. Only the movies can keep this spark alive. As she follows her pompous husband up the cliff walk to visit the obelisk, she wonders how he w...

Story of the first woman to climb the Matterhorn in 1871....

Getting to sleep can be a problem when you eat as much cheese as Wallace. His solution is the “Snoozatron”, a simple device to aid the restless insomniac. For Wallace the machine is a triumph of precision engineering. For Gromit, his part in the mach...

A bomb-throwing incident in 1905 sets off a train of events which ends in a murder and a suicide....

It’s just a short nip to the shops but it can become a daily chore when you have all that cheese to carry home. Wallace has decided to save his legs by initiating a program of guided shopping trolleys to the supermarket. Mission 13 is the big one; he...

The legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt's unconventional life and career are examined in this biopic. At an audition in 1860, the teenage Bernhardt proclaims herself the greatest actress of her time. Her career blossoms, as does her private life. But a...

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Peter and Jerry meet on a park bench in New York City's Central Park. Peter is a wealthy publishing executive with a wife, two daughters, two cats, and two parakeets. Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man, desperate to have a meaningful conversat...

A comedy about the celebrated 18th century comedienne, Kitty Clive....

Another chore Gromit dislikes is clearing the table after meals. Wallace’s Turbo Diner is designed to do the job fast and efficiently; all they have to do is top up the electricity meter. Everything seems to be going well until the lights start flick...

A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her....

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It has always been Gromit’s job to walk over and switch the TV channels on Wallace’s aging set. Wallace decides to save his legs by inventing a simple “remote control” device. Unfortunately, though the machine provides fingertip control, it is hardly...

Set on a remote Russian steppe during the Russian Civil War of 1917-1921, a captured White Guard Officer is about to be hanged by the Bolsheviks. Will a reprieve arrive in time?...

A play-within-a-play of Moby Dick by Orson Welles....

Gromit’s daily chores include sweeping up, unfortunately Wallace wants to help. The 525 Crackervac will save Gromit’s time and take the strain out of cleaning and it has a “cracker sensor” to boot!! However, things don’t go quite as Wallace planned ...

Hans Daedalus has defected from East Germany to the West. Is it possible that his opacity equations live on after his death?...

A behind-the-scenes look at the worldwide phenomenon that is Wallace and Gromit....

Abridged movie version of the 1974 British TV series concerning the whereabouts of Al Capone's illegal gains, garnered during the Prohibition era....