The second feature film based on the successful Steptoe and Sontelevision series.
Hercules the Steptoes’ horse has to retire and Harold, whilst searching for a replacement is conned into buying a greyhound. It fails to finish a race and Harold persuades Albert to feign death in order to collect the insurance.
It transpires that the insurance is no longer valid but the day after the funeral the insurance man returns with better news about the policy.
Features Diana Dors in a cameo role (trying to look alluring and sexy but, to be honest, she was well on her way to her latter Worm That Turned proportions by that time – but still a class turn), Milo O’Shea, Geoffrey Bayldon, Frank Thornton, Yootha Joyce, Bill Maynard and Sam Kydd.
Every time Harold gets in the lift of the tower block at the start and there is written on the wall ‘Johnny Jay the Odeon groper’ I fair near end myself.
There had been plans for a third Steptoe and Son film but they were abandoned when Steptoe and Son Ride Again did not perform as well at the box office as expected.
Albert Ladysmith Steptoe
Wilfrid Brambell Harold Steptoe
Harry H. Corbett Woman in flat
Diana Dors Dr Popplewell
Milo O’Shea Lennie
Neil McCarthy Lennie’s wife
Yootha Joyce George
Bill Maynard Percy
George Tovey Percy’s wife
Olga Lowe Claude
Sam Kydd Claude’s wife
Joyce Hemson Frankie Barrow
Henry Woolf Vicar
Geoffrey Bayldon Mr Russell
Frank Thornton
Director
Peter Sykes
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