Sid Abbot just wants to get on with building his illegal whisky still, but is frustrated by his workshy son, and otherworldly daughter.
Then rude and arrogant Ronald Baines and his family move in next door.
Garden-fence hostilities soon commence.......
Such is the case with TV comedies transitioning to the big screen in the seventies, the film adaptation really never had a plot to speak of, just loads of little sub plots that could fill a normal episode.
The studios must have thought that these films would have made so much money on release, because these comedies were watched by literally tens of millions of people.
Hindsight is a great thing to have though, this would never happen now, back then in the UK, we only had three TV channels, and the humour was a lot more, non PC.
But this is one of the better films to be released, thanks mostly to Sid James and his wonderful laugh.
So the sub plots are.........
Sid is brewing illegal alcohol
His daughter becomes an activist
His wife opens a store
New neighbours move in, they dislike each other, but SId's son falls in love with their daughter
Terry and June are in it
And it all ends with a food fight, and a wedding.
These films could have been classed as anthologies, because no matter how many sub plots there are, they all end up being tied together to become one narrative, which isn't necessarily funny, but my gosh, it's pretty clever.
We have people fall in cement, plaster coming off walls, hose pipes soaking people, hats being mown over, cars with comedy exhaust pipes, and an exploding shed.
It shouldn't be so entertaining, but the charm these films had were unprecedented, because they related to the working class.
Basically these films were the Prozac of their times, they made us laugh at ourselves, because the majority of the people watching were metaphorically watching themselves
Then rude and arrogant Ronald Baines and his family move in next door.
Garden-fence hostilities soon commence.......
Such is the case with TV comedies transitioning to the big screen in the seventies, the film adaptation really never had a plot to speak of, just loads of little sub plots that could fill a normal episode.
The studios must have thought that these films would have made so much money on release, because these comedies were watched by literally tens of millions of people.
Hindsight is a great thing to have though, this would never happen now, back then in the UK, we only had three TV channels, and the humour was a lot more, non PC.
But this is one of the better films to be released, thanks mostly to Sid James and his wonderful laugh.
So the sub plots are.........
Sid is brewing illegal alcohol
His daughter becomes an activist
His wife opens a store
New neighbours move in, they dislike each other, but SId's son falls in love with their daughter
Terry and June are in it
And it all ends with a food fight, and a wedding.
These films could have been classed as anthologies, because no matter how many sub plots there are, they all end up being tied together to become one narrative, which isn't necessarily funny, but my gosh, it's pretty clever.
We have people fall in cement, plaster coming off walls, hose pipes soaking people, hats being mown over, cars with comedy exhaust pipes, and an exploding shed.
It shouldn't be so entertaining, but the charm these films had were unprecedented, because they related to the working class.
Basically these films were the Prozac of their times, they made us laugh at ourselves, because the majority of the people watching were metaphorically watching themselves