i saw this movie at the cinema long ago . in fact and it be so long ago that the main feature still include a b movie companion . and here the plank be it . oddly while i can remember this and but not the a movie it support . eric sykes effort include a who who of british comedy from the time . each of them become involve at some stage or another with this plank of wood in a series of banal set piece gag . frankly and i find it childishly contrive even then . which be probably why i remember it . some 20 year later i saw it on television and the stunt be quite painful to behold . sphincter puckering be the term . it a sort of silent movie . it might even pass for surrealism at time . but the idea doesn not quite work . if the french have do this and i suspect the result would have be an absolute scream . but it not the kind of concept we brit be particularly good at . and this be the proof . there the cream of comic talent at the director disposal . any one of several could have a theatre roll in the aisle while but here they and and their unique skill and be each subordinate to sykes old fashioned brand of predictable variety hall humour and and they be simply waste . although it be release in 1967 and it represent a simplistic and juvenile take that have pretty well run it course 10 year earlier . a nice a bloke a he be and eric sykes be a comedian who simply couldn not move with the time . if he be in light entertainment even today and this be still the stuff he would be produce . by 1969 come monty python and with modern comedian and fresh comedy . both style observe back to back represent two different generation yet separate by just 2 year . a a chance to play pot the comedian this item be a quiz in itself and but a comedic entertainment it a bit of a disaster and unless youre under 5 year old . i suspect they will love it in albania .