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Steptoe & Son Ride Again

- The old man didn't die laughing, but you will.

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.

Release Date : 1973-05-01

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Anglo-EMIAssociated London Films

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Steptoe / Albert

Original Name : Wilfrid Brambell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Son / Harold

Original Name : Harry H. Corbett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Woman in Flat

Original Name : Diana Dors

Gender : Female

Character Name : George

Original Name : Bill Maynard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Doctor Popplewell

Original Name : Milo O’Shea

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lennie

Original Name : Neil McCarthy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Percy

Original Name : George Tovey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Claude

Original Name : Sam Kydd

Gender : Male

Character Name : Freda

Original Name : Yootha Joyce

Gender : Female

Character Name : Percy's Wife

Original Name : Olga Lowe

Gender : Female

Character Name : Claude's Wife

Original Name : Joyce Hemson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Frankie Barrow

Original Name : Henry Woolf

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vicar

Original Name : Geoffrey Bayldon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Russell

Original Name : Frank Thornton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Barrow's Crony

Original Name : Eamonn Boyce

Gender : Female

Character Name : Woman with Carrot

Original Name : Hilda Barry

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lady in Butcher's Shop

Original Name : Joan Ingram

Gender : Female

Character Name : Doctor

Original Name : Rafiq Anwar

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nurse

Original Name : Siobhan Quinlan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vet

Original Name : Stewart Bevan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dolly Bird

Original Name : Grazina Frame

Gender : Female

Character Name : Boy

Original Name : Peter Newby

Gender : Male

Character Name : Butcher

Original Name : Richard Davies

Gender : Male

Character Name : Undertaker (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Carter

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

Hercules II, A Hearse and A Hovel. Steptoe and Son Ride Again is directed by Peter Sykes and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. It stars Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Milo O' Shea, Neil McCarthy, Bill Maynard, Henry Woolf, Diana Dors and Yootha Joyce. Music is by Roy Budd, Jack Fishman and Ron Grainer and cinematography by John Wilcox. After the relative success of the first big screen foray for Steptoe and Son, a sequel was inevitable. More so as the 70s was fast becoming the decade for British situation comedies to make feature length versions of their popular shows. 1973 also saw the release of "Father Dear Father" and "Holiday on the Buses" (the third and final film in that series), so it may seem like a back handed compliment to say that "Steptoe and Son Ride Again" is the best feature length sit-com movie of that year, but it is, comfortably so. It's also considerably better than the first film, which was titled as just "Steptoe and Son" like the series itself. The writers go back to what made Harold and Albert Steptoe so popular in the first place, mercifully leaving behind the sombre beats of that first picture, where laughs were in short supply. The narrative here concentrates on their home and working life, their struggles to make ends meet, the mad cap idea that invariably goes wrong, the run ins with a local mobster and pets with problems. The laughs are plentiful and strong, OK! Albert being a dirty old man is a joke that had long been stretched to breaking point by 73, but there's something reassuring to have that still be the case in this one. Be it ciggie ash sandwiches and cheese being run through the mangler, or Harold being pestered for sex by a rampant Diana Dors - or bogus funerals and a greyhound who can't see for toffee but can smell Albert's tobacco a mile away! This is a treat for the fans of the series. 7.5/10