The Plank (1967)

NR05/18/1967Comedy55m
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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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Tommy Cooper

    Larger Workman

  2. Cast 1

    Eric Sykes

    Smaller Workman

  3. Cast 1

    Jimmy Edwards

    Policeman

  4. Cast 1

    Roy Castle

    Delivery Man with boxes

  5. Cast 1

    Graham Stark

    Amorous Van Driver

  6. Cast 1

    Stratford Johns

    Station Sergeant

  7. Cast 1

    Jim Dale

    House Painter

  8. Cast 1

    Jimmy Tarbuck

    Barman

  9. Cast 1

    Hattie Jacques

    Woman with Rose

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 to...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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