The Others (2001)
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While awaiting her husband's return from war, Grace and her two young children live an unusually...
Carmine Appice: Stick it!: My Life of Sex, Drums and Rock 'n' Roll
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Carmine Appice (born December 15, 1946) is an American drummer and percussionist most commonly...
The Goon Show: Four Episodes of the Classic BBC Radio Comedy: Volume 32
Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Eric Sykes
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Four more hilarious episodes of the groundbreaking BBC radio comedy starring Spike Milligan, Peter...
Mayhawke (97 KP) rated The Plank (1967) in Movies
Feb 7, 2018
Two builders find themselves one floor-board short of a house. So they go to the timber yard to get one.
And that's the story. All of it...except the details. It's the details that make the rest of the film, and make it so damn funny, as the hapless pair unwittingly wreak mayhem and chaos.
It shouldn't need to be said - but I'll say it any way :-) - that there is a level of genius required to make an entire film out of just that. But then it is the work of Eric Sykes (more recently seen in 'Harry P & the Goblet of Fire' and 'The Others', for younger viewers) who has been a mainstay of British humour, both as a writer and performer, for several decades now.
Incindentally if you don't quite 'get' the image of the incompetent British workman portrayed in this film find a copy of Bernard Cribbens' 'Right, Said Fred' and listen to it. Everything will become clear!
Oh, and there's a kitten, too.
N. F. Simpson: Collected Plays: A Resounding Tinkle; The Hole; Gladly Otherwise; One Way Pendulum; The Cresta Run; Was He Anyone?; If So, Then Yes
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"I'm terribly methodical and orderly, but I have a strange, underlying contempt for it ...what I try...