The Norman Wisdom collection [videorecording]
2008
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A box set of 12 Norman Wisdom classics. In 'On the Beat' Wisdom stars as a bumbling Scotland Yard car park attendant who gets his chance to be a real policeman after he accidentally catches some crooks. His advantage lies in the fact that he physically resembles one of the ringleaders. In 'Man of the Moment' the bumbling Norman (Wisdom) accidentally becomes the British delegate to an important international conference in Geneva. Hilarious chaos and amusing misunderstandings ensue. In 'Trouble in Store' Wisdom is taken on as a shop assistant in a department store. His ambition is to become a window dresser, and he falls in love at first sight with his dream-girl, Sally. After a disastrous start (chasing a bus on roller skates, entering a shop girl's hostel, the usual sort of thing), events conspire to make Norman an unlikely hero. In 'Up in the World' Wisdom stars as the bumbling window cleaner to Lady Banderville. He has to cope with the pranks of her son, Sir Reggie, but cleans up when he confounds a gang of kidnappers. In 'The Square Peg' Norman Pitkin (Wisdom) is keen to help the war effort, and turns out to be a dead ringer for an enemy general. Joining up with his colleague, Mr Grimsdale, he is posted to France as part of a team repairing the damaged roads. Captured by the enemy, he turns his uncanny resemblance to his own advantage and comes home a hero. In 'Follow a Star' Wisdom plays a shop worker (imaginatively also named Norman, as indeed is every character he has ever portrayed) who dreams of becoming a famous singer. His attempts are, of course, disastrous, until he is encouraged by music teacher Miss Dobson, and a crippled girl named Judy. In 'The Bulldog Breed' Norman Puckle (Wisdom) is a grocer who joins the Navy and finds himself chosen to man a rocket flight into outer space. After Norman brings his own brand of madcap mayhem to the training process, his superiors begin to suspect that they might have picked the wrong person for the mission. Also starring Ian Hunter and Edward Chapman. Whilst in 'One Good Turn' Norman (Wisdom) works at the orphanage, and promises that he will buy one of its charges a model car. But how can he get the money? Proving himself equally incompetent at all jobs, he manages to raise a few laughs along the way in his attempts to earn the cash and not disappoint the little sprite. In 'A Stitch in Time' Star Wisdom plays an apprentice butcher trying to help a sick child. His bumbling efforts end up with him being banned from visiting little orphan Lindy, but Norman will go to any lengths to keep in touch with his young charge. Whilst in 'Just My Tuck', determined to win the heart of his beautiful neighbour, Norman (Wisdom) decides he wants to buy her a diamond necklace - but how can he possibly afford it? A solution offers itself when he goes to a bookmaker's, learns the intricacies of the accumulator bet, and sets out on a major winning streak. However, whenever Norman is involved things are never quite that simple, and soon enough our hapless hero finds himself in deep trouble, creating havoc at the local racetrack. In 'The Early Bird' Wisdom plays a milkman caught up in a feud between the small, traditional company that employs him and a large, modern dairy planning a hostile takeover. Will Norman, in his typically inept fashion, manage to save his company from the onset of modernity? Finally in 'Press For Time' Norman Shields (Wisdom) is an accident-prone young reporter, who only got the job because his grandfather (also played by Wisdom) happens to be the Prime Minister. Hilarious chaos ensues when Norman is sent to cover a beauty contest. Wisdom also appears in drag as a Suffragette called Emily.
Main title:
The Norman Wisdom collection [videorecording] / director, Robert Asher; director, John Paddy Carstairs; producer, Hugh Stewart; producer, Maurice Cowan; producer, Robert Hartford-Davis; producer, Peter Newbrook; writer, Jack Davies; writer, Henry Blyth; writer, Norman Wisdom; writer, Alfred Shaughnessy; writer, Vernon Sylvaine; writer, John Paddy Carstairs; writer, Maurice Cowan; writer, Ted Willis; writer, Peter Blackmore; writer, Eddie Leslie.
Author:
Asher, Robert, directorCarstairs, John Paddy, directorGreen, Philip, musicSpoliansky, Mischa, musicAddison, John, musicWisdom, Norman, actorJayne, Jennifer, actorStepanek, Karel, actor
Imprint:
ITV DVD, 2008.
Collation:
12 videodiscs (1098 min.) : b&w.
Notes:
Region 2, 12 disc(s), Interactive menus, Scene access, Ratio (1:1.33 (4:3) Standard), Languages (English), Sound (Dolby Mono), Subtitles for hard of hearing (English), Commentary (Norman Wisdom).Made in 1966.Credits: music, Philip Green; music, Mischa Spoliansky; music, John Addison; music, Mike Vickers; music, Ron Goodwin.Boxed.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne, Karel Stepanek, Lana Morris, Raymond Huntley, Garry Marsh, Edward Chapman, Jerry Desmonde, Margaret Rutherford, Belinda Lee, Inia Te Waita, Martin Caridia, John Warwick, Arnold Bell, Andre Maranne, Jill Dixon, Jeanette Sterke, David Lodge, Eve Roberts, Joan Rice, Shirley Abicair, Thora Hird, William Russell, Richard Caldicott, June Laverick, Hattie Jacques, Honor Blackman, Jill Melford, Esma Cannon, Violet Farebrother, Moira Lister, Maureen Swanson, Ambrosine Philpotts, Ian Hunter, Joan Ingram, Richard Wattis, Campbell Singer, Leslie Phillips, Glyn Houston, Martin Miller, Derek Bond, Colin Gordon, Marjorie Fender, Paddie O'Neil, Angela Browne, Brian Worth, Fenella Fielding, Delphi Lawrence, Joan Sims, Hazel Hughes, Eric Baker, Lionel Jeffries, Robert Urquhart, Keith Gilman, Bryan Pringle, Frances White, Terence Alexander, Sidney Tafler, Patsy Rowlands, Maurice Kaufman, Edwin Styles, Eddie Byrne, David Hurst, Imogen Hassall, Derek Francis, Ron Moody, Charles Heslop, Peter Copley, Peter Jones, Dilys Laye, Megs Jenkins, Noel Dyson, Vic Wise, Ernest Clark, Ronnie Stevens, Johnny Briggs, Marjorie Rhodes, Eleanor Summerfield, Mick Brennan, Liz Fraser, Harry Locke, George Pastell, Cyril Chamberlain, Claire Gordon, Tracey Crisp, Eddie Leslie, Allan Cuthbertson, Dandy Nichols, Perlita Nielson, John Le Mesurier, Frank Thornton, Michael Balfour, Ronan O'Casey, Penny Morell, Peter Jeffrey, Michael Ward, Brian Oulton, Richard Vernon, Stanley Unwin, Tony Selby.
Audience:
BBFC code: PG.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
791.437
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
33504
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