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Father Came Too!
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Title: Father Came Too!

Release Date: 11 Feb 1964

Runtime: 1h 31m

Genre: Comedy

Director: Independent Artists

Production Companies: Independent Artists

Overview: When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.

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Average Vote: 5.955 (11 votes)

Cast

  • Roddy Chipfield: Leslie Phillips
  • Dexter Munro: Stanley Baxter
  • Juliet Munro: Sally Smith
  • Mr. Gallagher: Eric Barker
  • Ron: Kenneth Cope
  • Executioner: Terry Scott
  • Josh: Ronnie Barker
  • Sir Beverly Grant: James Robertson Justice
  • Mart Queen of Scots: Hugh Lloyd
  • Sir Francis Drake: Fred Emney
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