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Norman Wisdom Collection (DVD) Loot Price: R394
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Norman Wisdom Collection (DVD): Edward Chapman, Brian Worth, Campbell Singer, Terence Alexander, Fenella Fielding, Sidney...

Norman Wisdom Collection (DVD)

Edward Chapman, Brian Worth, Campbell Singer, Terence Alexander, Fenella Fielding, Sidney Tafler, Charles Heslop, John Warwick, Arnold Bell, André Maranne, …

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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.

General

Studio: Itv DVD
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2008
Movie released: 1966
Actors: Edward Chapman • Brian Worth • Campbell Singer • Terence Alexander • Fenella Fielding • Sidney Tafler • Charles Heslop • John Warwick • Arnold Bell • André Maranne • Norman Wisdom • Jerry Desmonde • Margaret Rutherford • Jill Dixon • Delphi Lawrence • Leslie Phillips • Jeanette Sterke • Jill Melford • Joan Sims • Peter Copley • Vic Wise • Marjorie Rhodes • Glyn Houston • Hazel Hughes • Patsy Rowlands • Peter Jones • Ernest Clark • Jennifer Jayne • David Lodge • Esma Cannon • Eric Baker • Maurice Kaufman • Dilys Laye • Ronnie Stevens • Eleonor Summerfield • Lana Morris • Belinda Lee • Raymond Huntley • George Pastell • Karel Stepanek • Garry Marsh • Inia Te Waita • Eve Roberts • Violet Farebrother • Martin Miller • Moira Lister • Megs Jenkins • Derek Bond • Mick Brennan • Cyril Chamberlain • Eddie Leslie • Perlita Nielson • Ronan O'Casey • Michael Ward • Maureen Swanson • Colin Gordon • Lionel Jeffries • Martin Caridia • Ambrosine Philpotts • Edwin Styles • Ian Hunter • Robert Urquhart • Johnny Briggs • Eddie Byrne • Liz Fraser • Claire Gordon • John Le Mesurier • Penny Morell • Brian Oulton • Joan Rice • Shirley Abicair • Thora Hird • William Russell • Richard Caldicot • Joan Ingram • Marjorie Fender • Keith Gilman • David Hurst • Paddie O'Neil • Bryan Pringle • Angela Browne • Tracey Crisp • Allan Cuthbertson • Imogen Hassall • Harry Locke • Dandy Nichols • Frank Thornton • Richard Vernon • Michael Balfour • Noel Dyson • Derek Francis • Stanley Unwin • Frances White • Tony Selby • Peter Jeffrey • June Laverick • Hattie Jacques • Richard Wattis • Ron Moody • Honor Blackman
Contributors: Hugh Stewart • Jack Davies • Henry Blyth • Norman Wisdom • Philip Green • Alfred Shaughnessy • Vernon Sylvaine • John Paddy Carstairs • Maurice Cowan • Ted Willis • Mischa Spoliansky • Peter Blackmore • John Addison • Robert Hartford-Davis • Peter Newbrook • Eddie Leslie • Mike Vickers • Ron Goodwin
Directors: Robert Asher • John Paddy Carstairs
Dimensions: 192 x 137 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format: DVD
Disks: 12
Running time: 18 hours, 18 minutes
Region encoding: Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Audio format:  Dolby Digital Mono
Video format:  Standard 4:3 (1.33:1)
Languages: English
Age restriction: PG
Categories: DVD > Comedy
DVD > Feature Film
LSN: XBG-WPQ-3ME-1
Barcode: 5037115294838

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