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wrote: "Really rather a lamentable example of British slapstick, studded with hoary gags about honeymoons, dominating mothers, discarded trousers and all manner of cloacal by-play. The brisk pace fails to make up for an appalling lack of discrimination, and only one good scene, with John Le Mesurier
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wrote, "several hilarious slapstick scenes involving chases or sexual encounters, as well as the more reserved wit found in caricatures like an inept magistrate, are all hallmarks of a typically British sense of humor here (shared by many non-Brits)."
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Cecil Gibson dies in a road accident, his widow Julie remarries, and her new husband Bertie was Cecil's innocent but naive business partner. One of their wedding presents, from an unknown source, is a mouthy
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wrote, "sophomoric British comedy ...The script finds lots of excuses for people to lose their pants and make vulgar, inane sexual jokes that wouldn't amuse a 10-year-old."
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as a long-suffering Court Clerk and Kynaston Reeves as a deaf magistrate, manages to emerge above the general seaside-postcard level."
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with its origin in the world of 19th century theatre, where it was customary to hiss like a goose to express disapproval.
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wrote, "a fast and furious farce ...With humour that's a notch below the contemporary '
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Darcy Conyers
Brian Rix
Thelma Connell
Tommy Watt
British Lion
comedy film
Darcy Conyers
Brian Rix
Dora Bryan
Ronald Shiner
Irene Handl
The Night We Dropped a Clanger
British English
Brighton
antiques dealer
South American
parrot
Brian Rix
Dora Bryan
Ronald Shiner
Leo Franklyn
Liz Fraser
Irene Handl
Terry Scott
Reginald Beckwith
John Le Mesurier
Shepperton Studios
Surrey
The Monthly Film Bulletin

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