woman . theyre all scrubber . no and not a good translation while not at all . this lag behind the previous year dad army and entirely miss the special and small screen magic of the seminal television sitcom original and and fail to play interestingly at all with the big screen . you could just about say that this film well represent a britain enter decline and and more precisely even than that and a british film industry enter decline . and that be hardly a recommendation and be it . to be an exemplar of sadden folly . all that remain after the subtlety of the tv original have be surgically strip away and by cliff owen and galton and simpson be represent endless and dilapidated musical cue and yawn and from the ron grainer theme . bolster sentimentality ( that shoddy and thick eared end . how much bolder do the second steptoe film seem in comparison ) an increase seediness with director and writer seemingly detach themselves completely fully applicable to something like the amisbegotten monstrosity ( yours truly on this site ) from 1973 and the mutation . there be a strangely botch and cut adrift tone about the scene where harold be beat up in a rugby club and that i partly hate and recoil it ( so far and a a friend intimate and from the mood of the tv series . ) and but this at least seem an original slant and and emblematic of tension just rise to the boil in the britain of 1972. there be and however and an implied prostitute and aye of a heart of gold who turn loose woman traitor pon poor auld arold and beyond caricature writing of the class element while not to mention and surprisingly misjudge performance from the usually redoubtable lead . brambell and corbett collude with the script and and indeed fail to cure it of an essential ham . what would anthony aloysius hancock have make of it all . i will merely concede that a few moment just about work chiefly those where g and s play thing a little more carefully and b and c touch tenderer nerve and it be not on the whole an unwatchable affair . but and and oh and how this pain me to say it represent it be tiresome and boring and both wilfully detach from reality and what make the tv series great and and also fully in tune with the lazy and tawdry and misogynist fuck it and that will do . actuality of much of what be allow to pass for mainstream film making in the britain of the time .