Product Description

When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd in his first starring role) to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9279 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-10-16
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Formats: Black & White, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 74 minutes

Synopsis
Bus driver Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd) finds himself in a difficult situation when ordered to take a group of passengers from the foggy London Airport to another airport not knowing that he is in fact carrying stolen gold bullion that is about to be muggled. Frankie Howerd's first starring role.

Customer Reviews

A good film badly presented!
Fans of Frankie Howerd will know that this was his film debut and that he was against the idea of making a film for fear that his style of comedy wouldn't work on the big screen. Luckily he choose veteran film maker Val Guest to direct the picture and the combination of comedy and drama works very well. The story is centred around a coach full of passengers travelling from one airport to another during a bad fog with Frankie at the wheel. The coach also carries a secret stash of stolen gold bullion and one of the passengers is responsible for the theft, but which one? Basically it's a rehash of the old smuggled goods story used previously in numerous films from The Ghost Train to Oh Mr Porter, but here it has the added bonus of Frankie providing the laughs and boasts a superb cast including Margaret Rutherford, a young Petula Clark and Terence Alexander. The only problem is that for this release Pickwick have not only chosen the worst print they could find to duplicate from but also it has been edited, cutting out the best two scenes in the film! These were where Frankie telephones his elderly grandmother to tell her he'll be late home and he more-or-less goes into his act, getting more and more exasperated by the fact that she can't understand what he is trying to tell her. These scenes were apparently improvised on the set when Val Guest explained that the film was running short by a few minutes and it is a testament to Frankie's skill that he was able to come up with the goods at a moment's notice. To cut these humorous scenes out of the film is a crime. So it's four stars for the film but NO stars for the presentation. [...]

Save your money
I did buy this DVD and I must say it was the worst print I have ever seen, worse than the old pirate videos of the 80's and that is saying something.

I did contact Pickwick and in fairness they did apologise and said they were sorting this bad pressing out and would send me a better copy which they did, unfortunately it was as bad as the last one. A pity really, so save your money until they really do get this problem sorted.

Pickwick hang your heads in shame, TERRIBLE print
I eagerly awaited this dvd because I remember seeing the film on tv and had great memories of it, a fab movie with Frankie Howerd at the helm. Imagine then my horror at receiving it and discovering it was a PICKWICK release, renowned for their cheap and nasty production methods (along with ELSTREE HILL!) I avoid their dvds like the plague to be honest. Oh well, they are the only company releasing it so until another company does I will keep a hold of it, despite the atrocious print used full of glare, scratches, missing frames and freezing. What REALLY annoys me is that there is superb prints of this movie because I still have it taped from the tv from the 1980s and so with a little effort they could have located/used one of those prints. Sheer laziness on their part, they give DVD production a bad name.