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The Night We Got the Bird (1961)
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The Night We Got the Bird
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Cyril's family is unaware that he and his cabinet-maker employee are making and selling false antique furniture. It is only when he dies and his salesman Bernie marries his widow Julie that the truth comes out through Cecil re-appearing as a parrot, puzzlingly given as a wedding gift. When a local Brighton heavy realises he's been conned the family band together to try and fix things.
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Overview: Cyril’s family is unaware that he and his cabinet-maker employee are making and selling false antique furniture. It is only when he dies and his salesman Bernie marries his widow Julie that…
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Review: Brighton,1961 – if I could go back in time to one era in one place it would be there and then.”The night we got the bird” is pure nostalgia to me,then,apart from my anachronistic delight in British farces and their doyen Sir Brian Rix.Following Darcy Conyers “The night we dropped a clanger” and a few years after the masterful “Dry Rot”,plain Brian Rix – as he was then – starred in this magnificently silly typically English cheapo comedy about newly-weds,that essential ingredient of many a farce.Seaside Postcard humour set at the seaside – what more could you want? Brightonians who remember “The Coffee Lounge”,”The Lotus house” ,”The Palladium” and the hot pie shop in St James’s Street will love this. I was working in “Boots” in Western Road whilst “The night we got the bird” was being filmed and several members of the cast were regular visitors.The great Dora Bryan of course was a long-term Brighton resident along with such notables as Max Miller,Sir Laurence and Alfred Marks,Alan Melville and Gilbert Harding,two names almost forgotten now,sadly. Like its near contemporary “Jigsaw” and the earlier “Brighton Rock”,”The night we got the bird” presents the fine old town as it was before its media-heavy influx of “cool” people and its makeover as the aspirant Gay Capital of Europe.It has a wonderful cast of Sir Brian’s chums(and the lovely Lady Rix) that are clearly having a grand old time. And that of course is the golden nugget of all comedy.No po-faced “comedy is a serious business” nonsense here.It’s just for fun,folks. And jolly good fun it is too. To give some idea of how steeped in the tradition of eccentricity the town is,at the time “The night we got the bird” was being made I used to meet my girlfriend for a coffee and a sandwich on a seat in a graveyard behind the Clock Tower.Pride of place was given to the tomb of a local resident who served in the 19 th century British Army for over twenty years and was only discovered to have been a woman after she died.Only in Brighton!
Country: UK
Language: English
Duration: 83 min
Genre: Comedy
Also known as: Az álnok papagáj,The Night We Got the Bird
