The Bargee - Film - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

The Bargee. Hemel Pike (Harry H. Corbett). Copyright: Associated British Picture Corporation

Genre

Released

1964

Stars

Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes, Ronnie Barker, Julia Foster, Miriam Karlin, Eric Barker, Derek Nimmo and more

Writers

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson

Director

Duncan Wood

Producer

W. A. Whittaker

Company

Associated British Picture Corporation

Hemel Pike loves his life on the canals and wouldn't have it any other way. Not only is he not tied down, but he has the luxury of a string of attractive women up and down the nation's waterways to call upon - it's a lifestyle that suits him just fine.

On one particularly troublesome journey from base in Brentford up to Birmingham however, the inevitable happens: one of his squeezes has fallen pregnant. With every other person he's met on the trip - including another regular girlfriend - enquiring about his future and settling on dry land, could this be a sign of the end of the waterways for the canal Casanova?