Steptoe And Son / Steptoe And Son Ride Again
This double bill features the movie spin-offs from the hugely popular television series revolving around a father and son team in the rag-and-bone trade. In STEPTOE & SON, Albert goes to great lengths to get rid of son Harold's new bride, a stripper called Zita. But when Zita falls pregnant, Harold is going to have to choose .. Read more
| Starring | Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Carolyn Seymour, Diana Dors |
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| Director | Cliff Owen, Peter Sykes |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Steptoe And Son / Steptoe And Son Ride Again
This double bill features the movie spin-offs from the hugely popular television series revolving around a father and son team in the rag-and-bone trade. In STEPTOE & SON, Albert goes to great lengths to get rid of son Harold's new bride, a stripper called Zita. But when Zita falls pregnant, Harold is going to have to choose between the two of them. In the following year's STEPTOE & SON RIDE AGAIN, Harold buys a greyhound from a local criminal. The dog loses its first race and Harold-- with his debts mounting--hits upon a cunning plan to claim his father's life insurance. He just needs to convince the company that Albert is dead!
| Starring | Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Carolyn Seymour, Diana Dors, Milo O'Shea |
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| Director | Cliff Owen, Peter Sykes |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 8 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 04 Aug 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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This second movie featuring the nation's favourite junkmen is very much a rags-and-bones affair, with the material stretched to fraying point to justify the running time. Apart from the unnecessary crudeness of its humour, the main problem here is the dilution of the intense, disappointed fondness that made the pair's TV relationship so engaging, in order to squeeze in a handful of sketchily drawn characters whose sole purpose is to lend the action a big-picture feel. Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett spark occasionally, but Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's weak script finally gets the better of them.
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Dim, coarse comedy that long overstays its welcome.
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Classic Stuff
Ok they're not as good as some episodes from the tv series but, if you like Steptoe & Son you'll love this double feature
Steptoe & Son- Harold meets a stripper at a local do, falls in love , marries & heads off to Spain on honeymoon - with Albert in toe....with the usual results
Steptoe & Son Ride Again - Hercules the horse is ready for the knackers yard so Harold goes off with the life savings to buy a new horse. unfortunately he meest local hood Frankie Barrow who sells him a Greyhound. The film follows the Steptoes trying to train the greyhound to win their money back.
If you like Steptoe & Son then you'll like this - a throwback to an era when humour was less PC than it is today...which is no bad thing in my book -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
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Classic old school comedy
Very Old School and very funny. you get 2 films here the 1st is where harold marries a stripper and the second film is where they buy a racing dog. The films are both in colour which is nice after watching the old black and white episodes from TV. However this never reaches the side splitting funnyness of the black and white episodes.
the chemistry between harold and the dirty old man is prevalent on screen as always and as usual things all go horribly wrong. I have now ordered the full series box set from Play.com as i enjoyed the films so much.
If you don't mind a few jikes that you could not get away with today you might enjoy this!!! -
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Steptoe And Son / Steptoe And Son Ride Again
This double bill features the movie spin-offs from the hugely popular television series revolving around a father and son team in the rag-and-bone trade. In STEPTOE & SON, Albert goes to great lengths to get rid of son Harold's new bride, a stripper called Zita. But when Zita falls pregnant, Harold ...
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