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  • Rating: StarStar
  • Director: Eric Sykes
  • Main Cast: Harry Secombe, Eric Sykes, Jimmy Edwards, Hattie Jacques, Gordon Rollings
  • Release Year: 1970
  • Country: UK
  • Run Time: 37 minutes

Plot

This feature is basically a silent comedy as the only word spoken is "rhubarb." A Vicar (Harry Secombe) plays golf with the local police inspector (Eric Sykes), with the lawman cheating mercilessly with the help of his constable (Jimmy Edwards). Soon the Vicar calls on help from the Almighty to conjure up a lighting bolt to help his game. Sight gags and pantomime dominate this engaging 37 minute feature. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Cast


Johnny Speight - Man In Park; Ann Lancaster - Wife; Kenneth Connor - Husband; Graham Stark - Golfer; Sheree Winton - Girl Friend

Credit

Eric Sykes - Director; Eric Sykes - Screenwriter; Jon Penington - Producer; Arthur Wooster - Cinematographer; Brian Fahey - Composer (Music Score); Anthony Sloman - Editor
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WordNet: rhubarb
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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened
  Synonym: pieplant

Meaning #2: plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous
  Synonym: rhubarb plant

 
Wikipedia: Rhubarb (1969 film)
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Rhubarb
Directed by Eric Sykes
Produced by Jon Penington
Written by Eric Sykes
Starring Harry Secombe
Eric Sykes
Music by Brian Fahey
Cinematography Arthur Wooster
Release date(s) 1969
Running time 37 min.
Country UK
Language English
IMDb profile

Rhubarb was a 1969 British short film written and directed by Eric Sykes, starring Sykes and Harry Secombe. The dialogue consisted entirely of repetitions of the word "rhubarb", all the characters last names were "Rhubarb", and even the license plates on vehicles were "RHU BAR B". A baby "spoke" by holding a sign with the word "Rhubarb" written on it.

Rhubarb is a radio idiom for unintelligible background speech. Typically extras would mutter the word over and over to provide ambience for a crowd or party scene. In The Goon Show the cast was usually only the three principals, who would try to sound like a larger group by repeating "rhubarb" very quickly, with outbreaks of "Custard!" for good measure. Sykes was a close collaborator and friend of the Goons. He remade the piece in 1980 for Thames Television, as Rhubarb Rhubarb.

Plot

A Police Inspector and a vicar play a round of golf. The Police Inspector has a Constable help him to cheat by removing his golf ball from awkward situations, and the vicar ultimately requests Divine Intervention.

Cast

See also

  • Rhubarb Rhubarb, the 1980 remake of Rhubarb.
  • Other Eric Sykes short silent films in similar style: The Plank (1967), The Plank (1979 remake of the 1967 film), It's Your Move (1982), Mr. H Is Late (1988) and The Big Freeze (1993).

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