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The Square Peg on DVD

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Average rating: 69%
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3.5
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Starring: Norman Wisdom, Honor Blackman, Edward Chapman, hattie Jacques, Oliver Reed, June Laverick, Jerry Desmonde, Richard Wattis
Director: John Paddy Carstairs, Robert Asher
Studio: CARLTON VISUAL ENTERTAINMENT LTD
Certificate: TBC
Languages: English
Hearing-impaired: English
Released: 12/05/2003

Brief synopsis of The Square Peg

Norman Pitkin (Norman 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.

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Rating of 2 stars out of 5 Radio Times

This is a classic example of the kind of fumbling farce that earned Norman Wisdom cult status in Albania (where he is known to thousands of adoring fans as Pitkin, the character he plays here). Wisdom's comedy appeals because many in the audience can identify with the situations his “little man” character struggles valiantly to overcome. Yet this loose reworking of the Will Hay classic The Goose Steps Out, in which Wisdom becomes a war hero by impersonating a top Nazi general, misfires because the commonplace is forsaken for the fantastic and it becomes hard to sympathise, let alone laugh, with him.

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Rated - 4 starsBrilliant

Edward Guy Llewellyn from Staffs , 23/02/2005

This film is Norman Wisdom at his best

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Rated - 5 starsnorman is brilliant

janice scott from newcastle upon tyne.england , 13/07/2005

norman shows his genius for comedy in this very funny film starring norman who realises he is a deadringer for a german army commander.also featuring hattie jacques as his female friend.

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Rated - 4 starsBlack and White Humour

Toaster from Kent , 24/02/2005

I was inspired to have another look at Norman Wisdom's films by the news that this year sees his 90th birthday.

I was lucky to grow up with Norman's films and was just a child when I saw this film in the cinema on its first release.

Maybe I have never grown up, but the childish humour still has me in fits of laughter. When I say "childish" this is not critical. It is the word that comes to my mind to describe the simple humour that appeals to children and I believe most adults!

Norman Wisdom's performance is matchless.

Though the "reality" of the story line may be lost on today's youngsters, and the movie was shot on black and white film, I believe they will find the film great family fun!

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Rated - 4 starsBlack and White Humour

Toaster from Kent , 24/02/2005

I was inspired to have another look at Norman Wisdom's films by the news that this year sees his 90th birthday.

I was lucky to grow up with Norman's films and was just a child when I saw this film in the cinema on its first release.

Maybe I have never grown up, but the childish humour still has me in fits of laughter. When I say "childish" this is not critical. It is the word that comes to my mind to describe the simple humour that appeals to children and I believe most adults!

Norman Wisdom's performance is matchless.

Though the "reality" of the story line may be lost on today's youngsters, and the movie was shot on black and white film, I believe they will find the film great family fun!

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