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Raising the Wind is almost a Carry On, is almost very funny and is filmed in almost the same retina-destroying colour as Cruising. James Robertson Justice turns in a performance so big that it screams out for a cinema screen and popcorn, but doesn't mind roughing it with a telly and hot chocolate. The great Eric Barker swaps his precision haircuts and dapper suits for the cardigan and frightwig of a mad professor, he pulls it off superbly, but did you expect anything less? Sid's cameo is a nice surprise, no matter how many times you've seen the film. Bruce Montgomery's script lurches from Rothwellesque brilliance to '60s sitcom banality, probably depending on how full or empty the whisky bottle was at the time. Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas hold everything together well, they can't make it a brilliant film, but they make it a very good one. Almost.
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