Amazon.co.uk: On The Beat [1962]: Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne, Raymond Huntley, David Lodge, Esma Cannon, Eric Barker, Eleanor Summerfield, Ronnie Stevens, Terence Alexander, Maurice Kaufmann, Dilys Laye, George Pastell, Jack Watson, Campbell Singer, Lionel Murton, Robert Asher: Video

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On The Beat [1962]
VHS ~ Norman Wisdom

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Product details

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne, Raymond Huntley, David Lodge, Esma Cannon
Directors: Robert Asher
Format: Black & White, PAL
Language English
Classification:
Studio: Cinema Club
VHS Release Date: 14 Aug 2000
Run Time: 101 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(2 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004CN7Y
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 12,141 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)
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#98 in Video > Classic Films > Comedy > 1960s

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Having proved himself a war hero in The Square Peg (1958), Norman Pitkin, Norman Wisdom's most famous incarnation of his riotous buffoon character, is here demobbed and, as usual for a Wisdom movie, dreaming of something better. Norman wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a policeman, but being decidedly on the short side, has to settle for washing police cars. Of course it's not long before Norman is impersonating an officer of the law. As in The Square Peg, Wisdom also plays his nemesis here, the German General Schreiber, as well as the chief suspect in a series of jewel robberies which only Pitkin's chaotic antics can solve. In fact, as if emphasising that On the Beat really is The Square Peg with different uniforms, Terence Alexander, who later found fame as Charlie Hungerford in the long running BBC series Bergerac, also returns, albeit playing a different character. Wisdom film-regular David Lodge, previously seen co-starring in The Bulldog Breed (1960) is also on hand, though otherwise the supporting cast is less stellar than before. Solid if very predictable feel-good entertainment, Wisdom's particular brand of charming anarchy proves again his box-office formula could withstand endless variations. --Gary S Dalkin

Synopsis
Norman Pitkin's ambition is to be a policeman. But he has to be content with washing police cars until the police realise that the only way to solve a spate of jewel thefts is to make use of Norman's uncanny resemblance to the chief suspect.