Stars: Norman Wisdom, Ian Hunter, David Lodge, Edward Chapman, Robert Urquhart, Joan Rice, Thora Hird, Shirley Abicair

Director: Robert Asher

Summary: In 'The Bulldog Breed' Norman Puckle, the most junior rating in the Navy, is called upon to pilot a new space rocket. 'One Good Turn' finds Norman who has promised an orphan a model car, but has no money. Proving his ability to be equally bad at every profession, he tries his hand at almost everything to raise the money.

The perennial bumbler is all at sea one minute and then packing a pathos punch with disadvantaged kids in this double bill.
THE BULLDOG BREED (1960): Norman plays a grocer who's suffering from unrequited love. Disheartened he runs away to the navy and then becomes the candidate for a space flight to the moon!
ONE GOOD TURN (1954): Norman has promised to buy a toy car for one of the children at the orphanage where he's the odd-job-man. Short of cash he has to devise ways of finding the money to keep his promise.

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In 1960, Norman Wisdom was left all at sea in The Bulldog Breed. He had already made a farce of the army in The Square Peg(1958), so what better than to join the navy? Back in the real world, the Russians had kick-started the space race putting Sputnik into orbit, so Norman rapidly finds himself selected to be the first Brit in space. Playing to type, the result is excellent physical comedy and copious tomfoolery at the expense of the upper ranks. With support from John Le Mesurier and Edward Chapman (the legendary "Mr Grimsdale") and uncredited appearances from Oliver Reed and Michael Caine, this is a notable British comedy, with an unusually direct reference to the risqué Carry Onmovies.

For his second starring role Norman Wisdom played the oldest orphan of Greenwood Children's Home in 1954's One Good Turn. Not only does he have to find the money to buy one of the orphans a model car, but after a visit to Brighton he discovers Greenwood is due to be closed down by the home's own unscrupulous chairman, a property developer with plans to build a factory on the site. Also starring Thora Hird, One Good Turnwas surely a film with a personal resonance for Wisdom who was himself brought-up in an orphanage after his mother died and his father was unable to raise him. As would become a tradition, he contributes a song, "Please Opportunity", and the movie, though produced by Rank, now sits easily in that classic Ealing era where the ordinary man took on the big guys and won. The innocent knockabout humour remains appealing. --Gary S Dalkin

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1960
Release Date:	May 12, 2003
Runtime:	184 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	37115 03533
Keywords:	Breed, One, Comedy, Bulldog, General, Turn, Good
Genre:	Comedy