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6.6/10   49 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Stephen Lewis (play)
Stephen Lewis (screenplay)
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Release Date:
30 October 1964 (Finland) more
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Tagline:
Sailor, sailor, home from the sea - where little stranger can there one be ?
Plot:
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
User Comments:
A Comedy and a Nostalgia Trip more (3 total)

Cast

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James Booth ... Charlie Gooding
Barbara Windsor ... Maggie Gooding
Roy Kinnear ... Fred Gooding
Avis Bunnage ... Bridgie Gooding
Brian Murphy ... Jack
George Sewell ... Bert
Barbara Ferris ... Nellie Gooding
Griffith Davies ... Chunky
Murray Melvin ... Georgie
Arthur Mullard ... Ted
Peggy Ann Clifford ... Ted's Wife
Wally Patch ... Watchman
Bob Grant ... Perce
Stephen Lewis ... Caretaker
Victor Spinetti ... Arnold
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Additional Details

Runtime:
94 min
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Certification:
UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | Finland:S
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18 out of 22 people found the following comment useful.
A Comedy and a Nostalgia Trip, 3 April 2000
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Author: Tom Dillingham (tfdill) from Columbia, MO

I saw this film when it first came out; it got very bad reviews at the time and most of my friends hated it, but I loved it then and have been haunted by the theme song ever since. For a while it was impossible to find any references to it--in fact, this is the first database where I have found the title or any information about it, though I have checked a number of commercial sites trying to find it on video. I still remember it as a charming (somewhat sentimental) and very funny comedy of a type that the British film industry did very well at that time. More recently their best work is more in a surreal or caricatural mode (such as _Cold Comfort Farm_, which is brilliant in its own way), but _The Full Monty_ caught some of the charm of the kind of comedies of everyday life that I think _Sparrows Can't Sing_ was one of. Now I just wish I could see it again.

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