Steptoe & Son Ride Again( 1973)

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68%

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The old man didn't die laughing, but you will.

Overview

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.

Top Billed Cast

Wilfrid Brambell
Steptoe / Albert
Harry H. Corbett
Son / Harold
Diana Dors
Woman in Flat
Bill Maynard
George
Milo O’Shea
Doctor Popplewell
Neil McCarthy
Lennie
George Tovey
Percy
Sam Kydd
Claude
Yootha Joyce
Freda
Olga Lowe
Percy's Wife
Joyce Hemson
Claude's Wife
Henry Woolf
Frankie Barrow
Geoffrey Bayldon
Vicar
Frank Thornton
Mr. Russell
Eamonn Boyce
Barrow's Crony
Hilda Barry
Woman with Carrot
Joan Ingram
Lady in Butcher's Shop
Rafiq Anwar
Doctor
Siobhan Quinlan
Nurse
Stewart Bevan
Vet
Grazina Frame
Dolly Bird
Peter Newby
Boy
Richard Davies
Butcher
Jack Carter
Undertaker (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

7.5

Written by John Chard on Thu Feb 13 2014

Hercules II, A Hearse and A Hovel. Steptoe and Son Ride Again is directed by Peter Sykes and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. It stars Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Milo O' Shea, Neil McCarthy, Bill Maynard, Henry Woolf, Diana Dors and Yootha Joyce. Music is by Roy Budd, Jack Fishman and Ron Grainer and cinematography by John Wilcox. After the relative success of the first big screen foray for Steptoe and Son, a sequel was inevitable. More so as the 70s was fast becoming the decade for British situation comedies to make feature length versions of their popular shows. 1973 al...