BEST KNOWN of several silent comedy shorts familiar from local screenings and summer holiday TV. ERIC SYKES was the originator of this epic following two workmen (Sykes and TOMMY COOPER – a later 1979 Thames remake replaced Cooper with ARTHUR “MR. MEN” LOWE) chasing a – ahem – plank around London. Dustcarts, plank on van roof, Jimmy Edwards trying to get on a bicycle, Malthouse Passage…you remember!
