The Plank

6/9/196755m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ You'll splinter your sides laughing at this classic of all comedies ~

Overview:

A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.

Director:

Eric Sykes

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

slapstick comedy
floorboard

Cast

Tommy Cooper

~ as ~

Larger Workman

Eric Sykes

~ as ~

Smaller Workman

Jimmy Edwards

~ as ~

Policeman

Roy Castle

~ as ~

Delivery Man with boxes

Graham Stark

~ as ~

Amorous Van Driver

Stratford Johns

~ as ~

Station Sergeant

Jim Dale

~ as ~

House Painter

Jimmy Tarbuck

~ as ~

Barman

Hattie Jacques

~ as ~

Woman with Rose

Rex Garner

~ as ~

Tourist

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
Many of us will have seen loads of films where the acting is wooden - but here, it is meant to be! Eric Sykes assembles a reasonable cast of stalwart British comics to regale us us with the adventures of the humble plank! Together with Tommy Cooper, the pair of workmen take us on a guided tour of what this plank (or it's identical twin) gets up to in it's wide and varied life... There is virtually no dialogue - much of it relying on the quirky Brian Fahey score and the odd mumble that set the standards for many an inaudible television drama being made even now. It does recycle the joke once too often, but it still has a charm about it. The singing opening titles; closing windows to keep out the cold - not that they have any glass in them, and the simplicity of things getting stuck, walloped and wedged is fun for a while, but that simplicity struggles to sustain the humour after the first 15-20 minutes or so. Still, it is an interesting and engaging example of what made us Brits laugh in the late 1960s.