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Bulldog Breed, The / One Good Turn [DVD] [1960]

DVD ~ Norman Wisdom
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  • Actors: Norman Wisdom, Ian Hunter, David Lodge, Edward Chapman, Robert Urquhart
  • Directors: Robert Asher, John Paddy Carstairs
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: ITV DVD
  • DVD Release Date: 12 May 2003
  • Run Time: 184 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00008MJ20
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 24,799 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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In 1960, Norman Wisdom was left all at sea in The Bulldog Breed. He had already made a farce of the army in The Square Peg (1958), so what better than to join the navy? Back in the real world, the Russians had kick-started the space race putting Sputnik into orbit, so Norman rapidly finds himself selected to be the first Brit in space. Playing to type, the result is excellent physical comedy and copious tomfoolery at the expense of the upper ranks. With support from John Le Mesurier and Edward Chapman (the legendary "Mr Grimsdale") and uncredited appearances from Oliver Reed and Michael Caine, this is a notable British comedy, with an unusually direct reference to the risqué Carry On movies.

For his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home in 1954's One Good Turn. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turn was surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing. --Gary S Dalkin



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5.0 out of 5 stars Bulldog Breed/One Good Turn, 11 April 2009
By M. Simpson "ruralbuyer" (Lincolnshire UK) - See all my reviews
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This is Norman Wisdom at his best, if you like old-fashioned comedy where the underdog triumphs, then these films are for you.
In the Bulldog Breed Norman joins the navy after being a loser in love. One Good Turn is the story of an orphanage under threat from developers, but they have reckoned without Norman who works there.
Both films are really good family entertainment.
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