The Punch and Judy Man (1963)

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Dark comedy about a seaside Punch and Judy man driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbery of local government. He is persuaded to go to the Mayor's gala evening but it's all too much for him.

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  • Ronald Fraser, Pauline Jameson, Sylvia Syms, and Peter Vaughan in The Punch and Judy Man (1963)
  • Call Me Genius (1961)

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18 November 2006 | dave-2438
7
| Hancock
As mentioned by someone else, this film has matured with age. I watched the Punch and Judy man because I was a Hancock fan. Sadly this is not classic Hancock but I don't think the movie was meant to be HANCOCK.

The thing with Tony Hancock was that he was always trying to not be Tony Hancock, the trouble was he could never get away from being the Lad From East Cheam and he couldn't understand why. Which in the end led to him taking his own life.

The movie itself feels like the Two sides of Hancock. The start is the Hancock he wanted to be, dramatic, and the end the Hancock we all knew and loved. the comic.

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Did You Know?

Trivia

It has been said that Hancock attributed the film's failure, to the Punch puppet which he claimed brought ill fortune.

Goofs

Dudley House Bed & Breakfast has a Bognor Regis, rather than Piltdown, phone number, so revealing the genuine location used.

Crazy Credits

The Piltdown civic dignitaries portrayed in this film are, like all other characters and events in the film, wholly fictitious and any similarity to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Alternate Versions

The version of the film issued in 2006 as a DVD double with Call Me Genius (1961) by Optimum Releasing is edited, removing four minutes of footage (at around the nine minutes mark). This loses Wally leaving the house after breakfast - after inserting some flowers into the pig ornament on his way out - to visit Edward mending the puppet crocodile in his garage, then encountering the Mayor on the road. The beginning of the following scene in the Town Hall is also clipped.

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Tom Bowling
(uncredited)
Traditional
Arranged by Derek Scott

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Plot Summary

Genres

Comedy

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Release Date:

8 April 1963

Language

English

Country of Origin

UK

Filming Locations

The Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire, England, UK

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