The Plank [1967] | ![The Plank [1967]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PM2WDCVVL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actors: Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Graham Stark, Stratford Johns, Jim Dale
Studio: ITV DVD
Category: DVD
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 2329
Format: Pal
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 51
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5037115068330
ASIN: B0002YCYSA
Theatrical Release Date: 1967
Release Date: October 18, 2004
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Good laugh. October 29, 2008
British silent Comedy at it's best. You just couldn't imagine the amount of scrapes you can get into by merely transporting one plank from A to B
Such fun to watch! Timeless too! February 15, 2008
This is an almost silent film. It is in colour and does capture its time so well.The backdrop is what England was like in 1967. As a lady friend commented "I had a pair of boots like that! They came from Biba!" The humour is as timeless as a Charlie Chaplin movie, but I think much much slicker. It staggers you when you realise that there is so little dialogue to help it along. It is delivered by the best of those comedians who knew how to do it. Tommy Cooper, Jimmy Edwards, Roy Castle, Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, the cast list is almost improbably long, and almost as if they all said "oh yes we want to do that because it will be fun!" This endless parade of the comedians we loved in the late sixties, is wonderful to behold. The director brings in realism too, so that it becomes even more slick and funny. The cast has impeccable timing and that makes the film so wonderful. But then would you expect anything less from such a bunch of talented actors and actresses? I am so glad I have this DVD, it is such fun to watch
An Absolute Classic.... April 4, 2006
26 out of 29 found this review helpful
...not in the sense that it is the best of it's genre, but in the sense that it is typical of it. If you needed to to have just one exemplar of british 'silly' humour, this would fit all the requirements. Reminiscent of it's predecessors The Goons, Dad's Army and (early) Carry On, and probably inspirational to followers such as The Goodies.Packed with 'faces' that anyone over thirty who grew up here will recognise. Two builders find themselves one floor-board short of a house. So they go to the timber yard to get one. That's the story. All of it...except the details. It's the details that make the rest of the film, and make it so damn funny, as the hapless pair unknowingly wreak mayhem and chaos. It shouldn't need to be said - but I'll say it any way :-) - that there is a level of genius required to make an entire film out of just that. But then it is the work of Eric Sykes (recently seen in 'Harry P & the Goblet of Fire' and 'The Others', for younger viewers) who has been a mainstay of British humour, both as a writer and performer, for several decades now. Incindentally if you don't quite 'get' the image of the incompetent British workman portrayed in this film find a copy of Bernard Cribbens' 'Right, Said Fred' and listen to it. Everything will become clear! Oh, and there's a kitten, too.
The Plank October 26, 2005
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is an example of pure comedy genius. Sykes, as a writer is as influential as Spike Milligan and Peter Cook. ...I'll say it again.. Genius!
What a film October 14, 2005
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Such a great film for all ages Tommy Cooper and Eric Sykes at there very best if you have never seen the film its well worth watching.
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