A Home of Your Own
6
45 minutes
1/1/1964
Overview
A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day when the site is first selected, to the day – several years and children later – when the couple finally move in, the story is a noisy but wordless comedy of errors as the incompetent labourers struggle to complete the house. It may well have been inspired by the success of Bernard Cribbins' classic song of the same vein from two years earlier, "Right Said Fred". In this satirical look at British builders, many cups of tea are made, windows are broken and the same section of road is dug up over and over again by the water board, the electricity board and the gas board. Ronnie Barker’s put-upon cement mixer, Peter Butterworth’s short-sighted carpenter and Bernard Cribbins’ hapless stonemason all contribute to the ensuing chaos.
Cast List
Ronnie Barker
as The Cement Mixer
Richard Briers
as The Husband
Peter Butterworth
as The Carpenter
Bernard Cribbins
as The Stonemason
Bill Fraser
as The Shop Steward
Norman Mitchell
as The Foreman
Ronnie Stevens
as The Architect
Fred Emney
as The Mayor
Janet Brown
as Surveyor's Wife
Gerald Campion
as Glazier
Bridget Armstrong
as The Wife
George Benson
as Gatekeeper
Helen Cotterill
as Mayor's daughter
Douglas Ives
as Old workman
Harry Locke
as Gas Board Foreman
Jack Melford
as Telephone engineer
Thelma Ruby
as Mayor's wife
Tony Tanner
as Workman with radio
Thorley Walters
as Estate agent
Aubrey Woods
as Water Board Inspector
Henry Woolf
as Diviner