The Night We Got The Bird. Bertie Skidmore (Brian Rix). Copyright: British Lion / STUDIOCANAL
The Night We Got The Bird

The Night We Got The Bird

  • 1960 film

Comic caper following a gormless antiques seller who gets caught up in his new boss's forgery racket. Stars Brian Rix, Dora Bryan, Leo Franklyn, Irene Handl, Liz Fraser and more.

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A host of British comedy luminaries - including veteran farceur Brian Rix and, in his last film role, actor and stand-up comedian Ronald Shiner - star in this good-natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton-based petty crooks dogged by disaster at every turn. The Night...

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