Steptoe & Son Ride Again (1973)

01/05/1973 (GB)•Drama, Comedy•1h 39m

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

Overview

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.

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Wilfrid Brambell
Steptoe / Albert
Harry H. Corbett
Son / Harold
Diana Dors
Woman in Flat
Bill Maynard
George
Milo O’Shea
Doctor Popplewell
Neil McCarthy
Lennie
George Tovey
Percy
Sam Kydd
Claude
Yootha Joyce
Freda

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A review by John Chard

7.5.0

Written by John Chard on Feb 13, 2014

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 a...