Norman Wisdom Collection

A box set of 12 Norman Wisdom classics. In 'On the Beat' Wisdom stars as a bumbling Scotland Yard car park attendant who gets his chance to be a real policeman after he accidentally catches some crooks. His advantage lies in the fact that he physically resembles one of the ringleaders. In 'Man of the Moment' the bumbling Norman (Wisdom) accidentally becomes the British delegate to an important international conference in Geneva. Hilarious chaos and amusing misunderstandings ensue. In 'Trouble in Store' Wisdom is taken on as a shop assistant in a department store. His ambition is to become a window dresser, and he falls in love at first sight with his dream-girl, Sally. After a disastrous start (chasing a bus on roller skates, entering a shop girl's hostel, the usual sort of thing), events conspire to make Norman an unlikely hero. In 'Up in the World' Wisdom stars as the bumbling window cleaner to Lady Banderville. He has to cope with the pranks of her son, Sir Reggie, but cleans up when he confounds a gang of kidnappers. In 'The Square Peg' Norman Pitkin (Wisdom) is keen to help the war effort, and turns out to be a dead ringer for an enemy general. Joining up with his colleague, Mr Grimsdale, he is posted to France as part of a team repairing the damaged roads. Captured by the enemy, he turns his uncanny resemblance to his own advantage and comes home a hero. In 'Follow a Star' Wisdom plays a shop worker (imaginatively also named Norman, as indeed is every character he has ever portrayed) who dreams of becoming a famous singer. His attempts are, of course, disastrous, until he is encouraged by music teacher Miss Dobson, and a crippled girl named Judy. In 'The Bulldog Breed' Norman Puckle (Wisdom) is a grocer who joins the Navy and finds himself chosen to man a rocket flight into outer space. After Norman brings his own brand of madcap mayhem to the training process, his superiors begin to suspect that they might have picked the wrong person for the mission. Also starring Ian Hunter and Edward Chapman. Whilst in 'One Good Turn' Norman (Wisdom) works at the orphanage, and promises that he will buy one of its charges a model car. But how can he get the money? Proving himself equally incompetent at all jobs, he manages to raise a few laughs along the way in his attempts to earn the cash and not disappoint the little sprite. In 'A Stitch in Time' Star Wisdom plays an apprentice butcher trying to help a sick child. His bumbling efforts end up with him being banned from visiting little orphan Lindy, but Norman will go to any lengths to keep in touch with his young charge. Whilst in 'Just My Tuck', determined to win the heart of his beautiful neighbour, Norman (Wisdom) decides he wants to buy her a diamond necklace - but how can he possibly afford it? A solution offers itself when he goes to a bookmaker's, learns the intricacies of the accumulator bet, and sets out on a major winning streak. However, whenever Norman is involved things are never quite that simple, and soon enough our hapless hero finds himself in deep trouble, creating havoc at the local racetrack. In 'The Early Bird' Wisdom plays a milkman caught up in a feud between the small, traditional company that employs him and a large, modern dairy planning a hostile takeover. Will Norman, in his typically inept fashion, manage to save his company from the onset of modernity? Finally in 'Press For Time' Norman Shields (Wisdom) is an accident-prone young reporter, who only got the job because his grandfather (also played by Wisdom) happens to be the Prime Minister. Hilarious chaos ensues when Norman is sent to cover a beauty contest. Wisdom also appears in drag as a Suffragette called Emily.

Director: Robert Asher
Director: John Paddy Carstairs
Producer: Hugh Stewart
Producer: Maurice Cowan
Producer: Robert Hartford-Davis
Producer: Peter Newbrook
Writer: Jack Davies
Writer: Henry Blyth
Writer: Norman Wisdom
Writer: Alfred Shaughnessy
Writer: Vernon Sylvaine
Writer: John Paddy Carstairs
Writer: Maurice Cowan
Writer: Ted Willis
Writer: Peter Blackmore
Writer: Eddie Leslie
Music: Philip Green
Music: Mischa Spoliansky
Music: John Addison
Music: Mike Vickers
Music: Ron Goodwin
Actor: Norman Wisdom
Actor: Jennifer Jayne
Actor: Karel Stepanek
Actor: Lana Morris
Actor: Raymond Huntley
Actor: Garry Marsh
Actor: Edward Chapman
Actor: Jerry Desmonde
Actor: Margaret Rutherford
Actor: Belinda Lee
Actor: Inia Te Waita
Actor: Martin Caridia
Actor: John Warwick
Actor: Arnold Bell
Actor: André Maranne
Actor: Jill Dixon
Actor: Jeanette Sterke
Actor: David Lodge
Actor: Eve Roberts
Actor: Joan Rice
Actor: Shirley Abicair
Actor: Thora Hird
Actor: William Russell
Actor: Richard Caldicot
Actor: June Laverick
Actor: Hattie Jacques
Actor: Honor Blackman
Actor: Jill Melford
Actor: Esma Cannon
Actor: Violet Farebrother
Actor: Moira Lister
Actor: Maureen Swanson
Actor: Ambrosine Philpotts
Actor: Ian Hunter
Actor: Joan Ingram
Actor: Richard Wattis
Actor: Campbell Singer
Actor: Leslie Phillips
Actor: Glyn Houston
Actor: Martin Miller
Actor: Derek Bond
Actor: Colin Gordon
Actor: Marjorie Fender
Actor: Paddie O'Neil
Actor: Angela Browne
Actor: Brian Worth
Actor: Fenella Fielding
Actor: Delphi Lawrence
Actor: Joan Sims
Actor: Hazel Hughes
Actor: Eric Baker
Actor: Lionel Jeffries
Actor: Robert Urquhart
Actor: Keith Gilman
Actor: Bryan Pringle
Actor: Frances White
Actor: Terence Alexander
Actor: Sidney Tafler
Actor: Patsy Rowlands
Actor: Maurice Kaufman
Actor: Edwin Styles
Actor: Eddie Byrne
Actor: David Hurst
Actor: Imogen Hassall
Actor: Derek Francis
Actor: Ron Moody
Actor: Charles Heslop
Actor: Peter Copley
Actor: Peter Jones
Actor: Dilys Laye
Actor: Megs Jenkins
Actor: Noel Dyson
Actor: Vic Wise
Actor: Ernest Clark
Actor: Ronnie Stevens
Actor: Johnny Briggs
Actor: Marjorie Rhodes
Actor: Eleonor Summerfield
Actor: Mick Brennan
Actor: Liz Fraser
Actor: Harry Locke
Actor: George Pastell
Actor: Cyril Chamberlain
Actor: Claire Gordon
Actor: Tracey Crisp
Actor: Eddie Leslie
Actor: Allan Cuthbertson
Actor: Dandy Nichols
Actor: Perlita Nielson
Actor: John Le Mesurier
Actor: Frank Thornton
Actor: Michael Balfour
Actor: Ronan O'Casey
Actor: Penny Morell
Actor: Peter Jeffrey
Actor: Michael Ward
Actor: Brian Oulton
Actor: Richard Vernon
Actor: Stanley Unwin
Actor: Tony Selby