Futtocks End DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Bob Kellett
Produced in 1970
Main Language - ENGLISH
Countries & Regions - British Film
MovieMail's Review
Ear trumpets and French maid's outfits, battle-axe cooks and croquet, gratuitous knicker shots and gurgling plumbing: welcome to Futtock's End, Ronnie Barker's 1969 'weekend at a country house' comedy filmed at Sir William Gilbert's former country residence, Grim's Dyke. Barker himself plays the monocled, perenially-bemused General Futtock, with Michael Hordern as his imperiously condescending, keyhole-peeping, motorbike-riding butler. The film also sees the last film performance from Roger Livesey, who plays 'the artist', one of an assortment of guests arriving for the weekend. Dialogue, such as it is, consists entirely of harrumphs, chortles and muted exclamations, and is punctuated with sound effects that reach their height of expression in an inspired hungover breakfast scene that borders on the hallucinatory. Clichés abound - monocle in the fruit salad, tipsy guests, muddy handprints on the back of a skirt - but that's partly the point; the enjoyment is in the material's realisation, and Barker and Hordern, with absolute command of their facial expressions, are born to their parts. Good fun, if rather un-pc now in places. File it next to Eric Sykes' The Plank.
Film Description
Scripted by and starring Ronnie Barker, this 45-minute silent film eschews dialogue in favour of increasingly bizarre sound effects. The story features rude and rumbustious goings-on at a country mansion, presided over by the monocled General Futtock - played by Barker himself.
DVD Details
Certificate: PG
Publisher: Digital Classics
Length: 47 mins
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Region: 2
Cat No: DC10021
Format: DVD Colour
DVD Extras
- Director's Commentary.
Film Stills
