Customer Reviews
Good laugh. - By: P. V. Davis, 29 Oct 2008 
British silent Comedy at it's best. You just couldn't imagine the amount of scrapes you can get into by merely transporting one plank from A to B
Such fun to watch! Timeless too! - By: Big John, 15 Feb 2008 This is an almost silent film. It isin colour & does capture its time so well.The backdrop is what England was likein 1967. As a lady friend commented "I had a pair of boots like that! They came from Biba!" The humour is as timeless as a Charlie Chaplin movie, but I think much much slicker. It staggers you when you realise that there is so little dialogue to help it along. It is delivered by the best of those comedians who knew how to do it. Tommy Cooper, Jimmy Edwards, Roy Castle, Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, the cast list is almost improbably long, & almost as if they all said "oh yes we want to do that because it will be fun!" This endless parade of the comedians we lovedin the late sixties, is wonderful to behold. The director bringsin realism too, so that it becomes even more slick & funny. The cast has impeccable timing & that makes the film so wonderful. But then would you expect anything less from such a bunch of talented actors & actresses? I am so glad I have this DVD, it is such fun to watch
An Absolute Classic.... - By: C. McGregor-Davidson, 04 Apr 2006 ...notin the sense that it is the best of it's genre, butin the sense that it is typical of it. If you needed to to have just one exemplar of british 'silly' humour, this would fit all the requirements. Reminiscent of it's predecessors The Goons, Dad's Army & (early) Carry On, & probably inspirational to followers such as The Goodies.
Packed with 'faces' that anyone over thirty who grew up here will recognise.
Two builders find themselves one floor-board short of a house. So they go to the timber yard to get one. That's the story. All of it...except the details. It's the details that make the rest of the film, & make it so damn funny, as the hapless pair unknowingly wreak mayhem & chaos.
It shouldn't need to be said - but I'll say it any way :-) - that there is a level of genius required to make an entire film out of just that. But then it is the work of Eric Sykes (recently seenin 'Harry P & the Goblet of Fire' & 'The Others', for younger viewers) who has been a mainstay of British humour, both as a writer & performer, for several decades now.
Incindentally if you don't quite 'get' the image of the incompetent British workman portrayedin this film find a copy of Bernard Cribbens' 'Right, Said Fred' & listen to it. Everything will become clear!
Oh, & there's a kitten, too.
The Plank - By: , 26 Oct 2005 This is an example of pure comedy genius. Sykes, as a writer is as influential as Spike Milligan & Peter Cook.
...I'll say it again.. Genius!
What a film - By: , 14 Oct 2005 Such a great film for all ages Tommy Cooper & Eric Sykes at there very best if you have never seen the film its well worth watching.
