Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (Viv Stanshall)
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Uploaded by DigitalClassics on May 9, 2008
Available on DVD from www.digitalclassics.co.uk and all major retailers.
Eccentric British comedy created by Vivian Stanshall and starring Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter).
"A comic masterpiece" NME
"The missing link between Monty Python and Withnail and I" TimeOut
As complex as the mind of its creator, Vivian Stanshall, the plot of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End revolves around attempts to exorcise of the ghost of Humbert, the brother of Sir Henry (Trevor Howard). Humbert was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident whilst escaping from an illicit tryst. Amongst the eccentric family members, mad friends and grudgingly loyal servants involved are the eternally knitting Aunt Florrie, the tapeworm-obsessed Mrs. E, Lady Phillipa of Staines, who enjoys the odd small sherry and the ever-present Old Scrotum, Sir Henrys wrinkled retainer.
Adding to the poetic shambles are the hapless Germans, long post-war, who populate the fearsome PoW camp that Sir Henry set up in the gardens of his estate, and his younger brother Hubert who fishes for hairdressers in a pond. Furnished with a stuffed mechanical bulldog, a champion billiard-playing horse and a marriage bed cruelly divided by sandbags and barbed wire, Rawlinson End is an endlessly mad, hilarious outpost of an England as it could have been
Cast
TREVOR HOWARDSir Henry Rawlinson
PATRICK MAGEEReverend Slodden
DENISE COFFEYMrs. E
J.G. DEVLINOld Scrotum
HARRY FOWLERBuller Bullethead
SHEILA REIDFlorrie Rawlinson
VIVIAN STANSHALLHubert Rawlinson
SUZANNE DANIELLECandice Rawlinson
DANIEL GERROLLRalph Rawlinson
MICHAEL CRANEHumbert Rawlinson
BEN ARISLord Tarquin of Staines
LIZ SMITHLady Phillipa of Staines
JEREMY CHILDPeregrine Maynard
SUSAN PORRETTPorcelain
GARY WALDHORNMax
SIMON JONESJoachim
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Do you like riddles?
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What a total treat I haven't seen this for years..thats it off to Amazon to buy it ...marvellous!!
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Vivian God bless 'm was HILARIOUS
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i've waited a long time to see, then say this, - cack
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Wow
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This was SOOOOOOOOO good to watch again!! Thank you muchly! mumsow (karen swan) x
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best film ever!
callicolady 3 years ago 3
I saw the very first showing of this movie with Vivian Stanshall present!
Wonderful!!
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