Everyone's named Rhubarb. Everyone's cheating. British comedy chaos in 37 minutes.
A Police Inspector and a vicar play a round of golf. The Inspector has a Constable help him to cheat, while the vicar has other ideas...
Acting
Classic British comedy legends at peak physical buffoonery.
Direction
Sykes orchestrates escalating farce with surgical timing.
Writing
Every character named Rhubarb—commitment to the bit.
Director
Eric Sykes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a loose trilogy of silent-ish comedies Sykes made with his regular troupe, deliberately old-fashioned even in 1970.
Eric Sykes went partially deaf during filming—his increasing reliance on visual gags in this period was partly necessity becoming style.
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