This Norman Wisdom comedy was as popular with our customers in 1976, as it was with the cinema going public in 1954, when it was Britain’s second most popular film at the box office. Derek’s soft spot for Norman and this film in particular, meant that it was top of his list of titles when we picked out our films for our first contract with Rank Film Distributors, and admittedly this title, along with it’s two 200′ extracts (The Window Dresser and Don’t Laugh at Me), was without doubt the best seller.
Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he dreams of being a window dresser making up the public displays. While trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls for one of the shop girls and together they discover a plot to rob the store and manage to foil the robbers. Wisdom won a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. This was Norman’s first theatrical feature, although he had appeared in several prior TV movies, and it would lead to a long string of his comedies, when ‘Press For Time’, came out in 1966, he was still voted the fifth most popular star at the British box office.
Our label was just Norman’s famous cloth capped laughing face!
Label courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’
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