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 Norman Wisdom (1966)

UPC/Barcode: 5037115043139   Catalogue No: 37115 04313   Released: 17th October 2005   Category: Feature, Comedy   Availability: Sell Thru / Rental   Format: DVD / Box Set

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Only the main feature on this DVD title has English subtitles. [explanation]

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 allan on 12-10-2003:

all the main feaures are subtitled but not subtitles for audio commentaries and trailers

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Story: 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.

Cast: Norman Wisdom, Karel Stepanek, Jennifer Jayne, Lana Morris, Garry Marsh, Raymond Huntley, Martin Caridia, Inia Te Waita, Belinda Lee, Jerry Desmonde, Edward Chapman, Margaret Rutherford, Richard Caldicott, David Lodge, Eve Roberts, Hattie Jacques, Jill Dixon, Andre Maranne, William Russell, Thora Hird, Joan Rice, Arnold Bell, Jeanette Sterke, Shirley Abicair, June Laverick, John Warwick, Honor Blackman, Richard Wattis, Ambrosine Philpotts, Maureen Swanson, Joan Ingram, Jill Melford, Violet Farebrother, Moira Lister, Esma Cannon, Ian Hunter, Angela Browne, Campbell Singer, Derek Bond, Colin Gordon, Paddie O'Neil, Martin Miller, Marjorie Fender, Leslie Phillips, Glyn Houston, Hazel Hughes, Robert Urquhart, Bryan Pringle, Lionel Jeffries, Brian Worth, Keith Gilman, Delphi Lawrence, Eric Baker, Frances White, Fenella Fielding, Joan Sims, Ron Moody, Patsy Rowlands, Imogen Hassall, Derek Francis, Terence Alexander, Edwin Styles, Eddie Byrne, Maurice Kaufman, David Hurst, Sidney Tafler, Megs Jenkins, Peter Copley, Charles Heslop, Noel Dyson, Dilys Laye, Peter Jones, Ernest Clark, Ronnie Stevens, Vic Wise, Johnny Briggs, Liz Fraser, Mick Brennan, Eleonor Summerfield, Marjorie Rhodes, Harry Locke, Claire Gordon, Tracey Crisp, George Pastell, Cyril Chamberlain, Eddie Leslie, Dandy Nichols, Allan Cuthbertson, John le Mesurier, Perlita Nielson, Frank Thornton, Michael Balfour, Penny Morell, Ronan O'Casey, Peter Jeffrey, Brian Oulton, Richard Vernon, Michael Ward, Stanley Unwin, Tony Selby

Directed by: John Paddy Carstairs, Robert Asher

Studio: ITV DVD

DVD Information:

Extra features:

• Commentary: Norman Wisdom
• Bonus footage
• Trailers