The Likely Lads
1976, Film, 90 min, Comedy, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 64
Emotion blazes across the big screen as Bob and Terry knock down the frontiers of human knowledge and Newcastle ale.
With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma - who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things don’t go quite according to plan and before you can say ‘I can see the way this is going’ we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners’ attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.
Directed by Michael Tuchner
Cast
- Rodney Bewes as Bob Ferris
- James Bolam as Terry Collier
- Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Ferris
- Mary Tamm as Christina
- Sheila Fearn as Audrey Collier
- Zena Walker as Laura Windsor
- Anulka Dziubinska as Dawn Windsor
- Alun Armstrong as Tommy - Milkman
- Judy Buxton as Iris
- Vicki Michelle as Glenys
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