Universal continues its first-rate 'double' series of two movies for the price of one, with this classic English comedy double.

First up is The School for Scoundrels from 1960, based on the successful comic self-help books from that era by Stephen Potter, 'One Upmanship' and 'Lifemanship'.

Alastair Sim, one of my all-time favourite British character actors, is Principal of a college which teaches aspiring upwardly-mobiles how to lie, cheat and swindle their way through life. Among the students are gap-toothed Terry-Thomas, and Britain's perennial innocent, Ian Carmichael. It's a real romp.

Next up is The Green Man from 1956, in which Alastair Sim plays a meek and mild clockmaker who has a slightly sinister side -- a killer for hire, with big-bang bombs his speciality. His career is going splendidly -- until the black day when vacuum-cleaner salesman George Cole (in real life Alastair Sim's adopted son) turns up on his doorstep.

These are delightful British comedies, great examples of their genre, and worth repeated viewing. They just don't make them like this anymore......

The transfer of this vintage black-and-white material is uniformly excellent; it's as good as you could expect to ever see this material. Sound is restricted, as its age suggests.

There are no extras -- but then, by placing two great movies on the one disc, Universal has given us the only worthwhile extra we need.