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The Early Bird is a 1965 British comedy film directed by Robert Asher and starring Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Bryan Pringle, Richard Vernon, John Le Mesurier and Jerry Desmonde. It was the first Norman Wisdom film to be shot in colour. The title is taken from the expression "the early bird catches the worm".
Plot
Norman Pitkin works for Grimsdale's Dairy as a milkman, in competition with Consolidated Dairies, an ever-growing rival company under the management of Walter Hunter.
Much of the humour centres on slapstick comedy, with Norman encountering various comedic escapades. These include being dragged around Mr Hunter's garden by an errant lawnmower and using the fire brigade's high pressure hosepipes to blast firemen off their ladders, after being called to a suspected fire at Consolidated Dairies' HQ.
Cast
Norman Wisdom as Norman Pitkin
Edward Chapman as Mr Thomas Grimsdale
Jerry Desmonde as Mr Walter Hunter
Paddie O'Neil as Mrs Gladwys Hoskins
Bryan Pringle as Austin
Richard Vernon as Sir Roger Wedgewood
John Le Mesurier as Colonel Foster
Peter Jeffrey as Fire Chief
Penny Morrell as Miss Curry
Marjie Lawrence as woman in negligee
Frank Thornton as drunken doctor
Dandy Nichols as woman flooded by milk
Harry Locke as commissionaire
Michael Bilton as nervous man
Imogen Hassall as Sir Roger's secretary
Tony Selby as Godfrey (uncredited)
Production
It was the last of several films Hugh Stewart produced for Wisdom. Stewart called the movie "very good" but said when reunited with Wisdom he "knew as soon as I saw him... that something had happened to him. The iron had entered into his soul. I could tell straightaway and so could Bob. Bob said, "He's not the same man." And we made our last film together."
Reception
= Box office
=The film was one of the 15 most popular movies at the British box office in 1966.
= Critical
=The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Routine Norman Wisdom vehicle, the only innovations being the use of colour, and the absence of a heroine who will see through her beau's clumsiness and regard him with loyal, loving admiration. The moments of pathos and sentimentality, evidently regarded as an essential ingredient in Wisdom's comedies, here mainly involve the horse, and are less embarrassing than the tasteless comedy with Mrs. Hoskins. As usual, the comedy relies heavily on crude slapstick, with a lengthy and repetitive prelude of tumbles downstairs, and two orgies of destruction – the first entailing the tearing-up of a garden by a runaway motor-mower, the second featuring an ordeal by water, foam and milk. These knockabout highlights are up to par, but the intervening material is weak, and the golf-course sequence with Wisdom impersonating a parson is particularly uninventive."
The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Well past his movie sell-by date, Norman Wisdom is powerless to prevent this dreary dairy comedy from turning sour. The satirical jibes at large scale automation are nowhere near sharp enough, while the tribute to Britain's fast-fading family firms is too twee. Regular straight men Jerry Desmonde and Edward Chapman are as solid as rocks and longtime director Robert Asher gives his star plenty of leeway."
Leslie Halliwell said: "Star farcical comedy; not the worst of Wisdom, but overlong and mainly uninventive."
TV Guide wrote, "most of the humor is slapstick, predictable, and only vaguely amusing."
Allmovie called the film a "lively British satire".
References
External links
The Early Bird at IMDb
The Early Bird at the BFI's Screenonline
The Early Bird at BritMovie (archived)
The Early Bird at MTV
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