The Plank (1967)
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 55m
Director: Eric Sykes
Cast: Tommy Cooper, Eric Sykes, Jimmy Edwards
Synopsis:
Two builders return to the depot for one last floorboard, and have various adventures getting it back to the site in their Morris Eight.
Review:
Celebrated slapstick short, somewhere between Keaton and Laurel and Hardy in its material, and Jacques Tati and Benny Hill in tone. Often touted as 'dialogue-free', it does in fact have plenty of audible lines, it's just that the primary language is visual. It seems somewhat over-extended now, its humour gentle and naïve, but it offers a great view of some British comics in their younger years, and is a time-capsule look at Southall, Middlesex.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 55m
Director: Eric Sykes
Cast: Tommy Cooper, Eric Sykes, Jimmy Edwards
Synopsis:
Two builders return to the depot for one last floorboard, and have various adventures getting it back to the site in their Morris Eight.
Review:
Celebrated slapstick short, somewhere between Keaton and Laurel and Hardy in its material, and Jacques Tati and Benny Hill in tone. Often touted as 'dialogue-free', it does in fact have plenty of audible lines, it's just that the primary language is visual. It seems somewhat over-extended now, its humour gentle and naïve, but it offers a great view of some British comics in their younger years, and is a time-capsule look at Southall, Middlesex.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 55m
Director: Eric Sykes
Cast: Tommy Cooper, Eric Sykes, Jimmy Edwards
Synopsis:
Two builders return to the depot for one last floorboard, and have various adventures getting it back to the site in their Morris Eight.
Review:
Celebrated slapstick short, somewhere between Keaton and Laurel and Hardy in its material, and Jacques Tati and Benny Hill in tone. Often touted as 'dialogue-free', it does in fact have plenty of audible lines, it's just that the primary language is visual. It seems somewhat over-extended now, its humour gentle and naïve, but it offers a great view of some British comics in their younger years, and is a time-capsule look at Southall, Middlesex.