A Home of Your Own

He signs the contract for the architect-designed home to be built. He slips the ring on her finger. By the time they move into the house with their four children and another on the way, the workmen have come and gone -- well almost gone. We get to watch them at work, in between the frequent tea breaks.

There are a lot of polished comic actors on wordless view here. Bernard Cribbins gets a running gag as a stone mason with a good payoff. Ronnie Barker is driven mad as a perfectionist cement mixer whose work is tromped on before it can set. Ronnie Stevens takes a lot of physical abuse as the architect who best laid plans gang agley. Best, for my taste, is Peter Butterworth as an inept carpenter who looks like he was sketched by John Tenniel. Over ll, a funny gag and satire on the current state of the building trades in 1960s Britain.