19.12.10

steptoe and son ride again (1973)


"Your habious is about to become very corpus."
Scrap dealers Albert and Harold Steptoe (Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett) continue their bickering as Harold looks for way to improve his lot in life. This weeks scheme involves investing his dad's life savings buying a greyhound. When he inevitably looses it all, Harold is forced to come up with another scheme to pay his debts; pretend Albert is dead in order to collect the life insurance.
Unlike the previous film outing, this one sticks closer to the feel of the TV series, and is much the better for it. Plays up the melancholly surrounding the eternally doomed Harold, who hopelessly struggles to achieve a better life.

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