Steptoe and son ride again.

[faginsgirl]

Just watched this again



FABULOUS!!!



FUNNY BEYOND WORDS!



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[Caine]

Just watched this again



FABULOUS!!!



FUNNY BEYOND WORDS!



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Yeah I watched it too...excellent.



I had a dog almost identical to theirs, lazy, smelly, bad breath...Allyson her name was, named after June Allyson according to my future mother in law when I picked her up on our first date...





Anyway what's the name of the small time gangster in the film who sells them the dog?

[faginsgirl]

Oooo dunno, pray tell!



But what an amazing cast it was, amongst others, Diana Dors, Yootha Joyce and Catweasel as the vicar



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[faginsgirl]

Thought you were starting a quiz



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[lupinpooter]

I've always had a crush on Harry H. Do I need help?

[faginsgirl]

For those of you who havent seen it. S&S try an insurance scam. Albert ends up in the box,when the insurance falls through the plan is to suprise everyone at the house, letting them know he is not dead after all, but he falls asleep in the coffin before he get the chance to.





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[EHV_Emmetts]

I realise that I'm probably in the minority here by suggesting that whilst the Steptoe & Son television series was reasonably amusing, their film outings were awful IMO.

[jaycad]

i've been watching the first series of 'steptoe and son' on dvd for the first time-brilliant stuff!

strangely though,i think wilfred brambells appearance works better in the colour episodes whilst harry h.corbett is better in black and white!

[lupinpooter]

whilst harry h.corbett is better in black and white!

Isn't he just?

[rskershaw]

I saw it at the weekend too. Did anybody else sense something darker than usual?

From the opening the camera seemed to dwell on a rotten landscape; the heavily vandalised tower block, the Dors character and her deliquent kids; the decrepit streets full of trash and graffiti, Steptoe Jnr almost starving whilst foraging for Rag&Bone - right through to the drunken wake/ funeral procession, which reminded me of the scary sequence with the drunken vagrants in "O Lucky Man".

It's a pity about all the stories/ docudramas about the two actors loathing each other, coz they were great together.

[davidb]

I realise that I'm probably in the minority here by suggesting that whilst the Steptoe & Son television series was reasonably amusing, their film outings were awful IMO.

theyre coarser ,seems to me that they included things they wouldnt have got away with on tv

[francesgumm]

Anyway what's the name of the small time gangster in the film who sells them the dog?

Henry Woolf played Frankie Barrow the gangster. Originally from Hackney now lives in Canada.

[faginsgirl]

It's a pity about all the stories/ docudramas about the two actors loathing each other, coz they were great together.

For me, this doesn`t ring true even though they may have argued from time to time. I find it difficult to believe that two people (if they needed attention and cash or not) could bare working with each other on series, film AND adverts for so long, if what we have heard is to be believed. IMHO actors have to be able to work together like you would have to work closely with say, the person who sits opposite you in the office each day. People have jacked in jobs they really liked after a year for less. Its not as if these two talented actors had done NOTHING else in thier working carreers too.



I`m not saying they were best of friends, actors (and yes I speak for myself) are sensitive and can sometimes be highly strung when it comes to working with the emotions especially. I don`t know, but some of the conflict we have heard about for me just doesnt really add up.



Other supposed loathing has been linked with Davis Soul and Paul Michael Glazier and Rodney Bewes and James Bolam too. Maybe true at times, but all the time?



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[davidb]

Henry Woolf played Frankie Barrow the gangster. Originally from Hackney now lives in Canada.

i always remember henry woolfe as the presenter of the schools programme watch ,he was with a little cartoon man i think

[bhowells]

Personally I have never been keen on Steptoe and Son Ride Again, always preferred the first film even though some of it appears to be based partly on a Stepote tv episode circa 1963.



However, I will have a look at Steptoe and Son Ride Again when I get a chance.



I have to say that the Steptoe and Son movies rank as two of the better spin offs of comedy series. Porridge was good too.



I keep meaning to reaquaint myseklf with the Till Death Us Do Part films.

[bhowells]

i've been watching the first series of 'steptoe and son' on dvd for the first time-brilliant stuff!

strangely though,i think wilfred brambells appearance works better in the colour episodes whilst harry h.corbett is better in black and white!

I am with you on this Wilfred does seem better in the colour episodes he seemed older in the black and white episodes even though Albert was only about 63 when the show started in 1962.

[faginsgirl]

I currently have the other S&S film on as I speak (or type) where Harold marries Zita the stripper. Out of the two I like the `ride again` film, the stripper one isn`t half as funny and at one point reminds me of carry on abroad with palm trees and flowery 70s shirts.

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[Gerald Lovell]

I currently have the other S&S film on as I speak (or type) where Harold marries Zita the stripper. Out of the two I like the `ride again` film, the stripper one isn`t half as funny and at one point reminds me of carry on abroad with palm trees and flowery 70s shirts.

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I prefer the second film too. I remember seeing it in the cinema when it first came out and and brother laughing uncontrollably when short-sighted Dr. Milo O'Shea decided the greyhound was a giant rat with a number on its back and when Albert rose from the grave!

[wadey]

named after June Allyson according to my future mother in law when I picked her up on our first date..."

Did you go out with the mother first?

[wadey]

My Mum loved the TV series but I can't stand it, sorry