Summary
Comedy starring Harry H Corbett. The idyllic existence of bachelor Hemel Pike, who travels the canals on the barge he shares with his simple-minded cousin, comes to an end when one of his girlfriends falls pregnant.
The Bargee
- Comedy
- Drama
- 1964
- Duncan Wood
- 102 mins
- PG
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Having failed to make a movie star out of Tony Hancock in The Rebel, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson tried to fashion a film comedy for their Steptoe and Son protégé Harry H Corbett. However, in spite of the presence of such comic luminaries as Eric Sykes, Ronnie Barker, Derek Nimmo and Richard Briers, this canal-boat comedy is worse than any episode of David Essex's ill-judged lock-keeping sitcom The River. The poverty of the plot (in which Corbett's Lothario of the Locks is duped into matrimony) is nothing next to its intrinsic sexism. Corbett tuts and shrugs with characteristic melancholy, but to little effect.
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Credits
Cast
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Hemel Pike | Harry H Corbett |
| Joe | Hugh Griffith |
| The mariner | Eric Sykes |
| Ronnie | Ronnie Barker |
| Christine | Julia Foster |
| Nellie | Miriam Karlin |
| Foreman | Eric Barker |
| Dr Scott | Derek Nimmo |
| Waterways supervisor | Norman Bird |
| Tomkins | Richard Briers |
| Policeman | Brian Wilde |
| Bridesmaid | Una Stubbs |
Crew
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Duncan Wood |
Details
- Theatrical distributor
- Warner Pathe Ltd
- Released on
- 1964-05-01
- Languages
- English
- Available on
- video and DVD
- Formats
- Colour
