A Home of Your Own (1964)

A Home of Your Own

1964

Comedy

Synopsis

A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day when the site is first selected, to the day – several years and children later – when the couple finally move in, the story is a noisy but wordless comedy of errors as the incompetent labourers struggle to complete the house. It may well have been inspired by the success of Bernard Cribbins' classic song of the same vein from two years earlier, "Right Said Fred". In this satirical look at British builders, many cups of tea are made, windows are broken and the same section of road is dug up over and over again by the water board, the electricity board and the gas board. Ronnie Barker’s put-upon cement mixer, Peter Butterworth’s short-sighted carpenter and Bernard Cribbins’ hapless stonemason all contribute to the ensuing chaos.

Credits

Director

Jay Lewis

Cast

Bernard Cribbins as The Stonemason

Bill Fraser as The Shop Steward

Fred Emney as The Mayor

Gerald Campion as Glazier

Janet Brown as Surveyor's Wife

Norman Mitchell as The Foreman

Peter Butterworth as The Carpenter

Richard Briers as The Husband