The Early Bird (1965)

i must have seen a different film!!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The acting in this movie is really good.

...which i really enjoyed!The film starts off on a brand new day at The Grimsdale Dairy, where Norman and Mr. Grimsdale are getting up, falling down stairs and ripping wallpaper!! not to mention getting the odd dressing gown caught in the odd door!Anyway Norman sets off in his horse and cart (yes, it's 1965 and Norman still uses a horse and cart!) and when it comes for Norman to set the milk down on the doorstep, he realises someone has beat him too it!!! and new and bigger dairy! (which i forget the name off)One of the milkmen from the new dairy breaks The Grimsdale Dairy bottle and lies saying it was cats kicking them, which results in a war between the two dairy's!After a long hard battle (even a comical game off golf!), Mr Grimsdale decides to give in and sell the Grimsdale dairy to the larger company, believing he'll get 50/50 of the shares, which he doesn't!!!Later on Norman fakes a fire by releasing some sort of smoke machine which makes everyone believe that there is a fire!After the head of the fire department realises what is wrong, the head of the diary hopes that Norman gets 10 years for his trouble but Norman quickly replies that it's not as bad as what they did to Grimsdale dairy, they finally resolve the problem but Norman thinks they are back when the amazing bottle kicking cats make an appearance!So overall i really enjoyed this film, plenty off laughable moments and sad emotional bits squeezed in to create a great, clean, family film!

Norman Wisdom's first film in color is, alas, one of his lesser vehicles; this time around, he's a milkman with Edward Chapman's modest firm (he is its only employer and even lives with his boss!) which is being run out of business by a big corporation that has, as its manager, the ubiquitous (and, by now, quite aged) Jerry Desmonde. Despite some good moments - an amusing but protracted opening gag involving Norman's elaborate waking methods, the star's Western-style showdown with a competitor, the utilization of his milk-bottles as weapons in a domestic squabble and Norman's demolition of Desmonde's garden - the film bogs down soon enough with a recurrent subplot about Chapman's tentative romance with his chubby middle-aged landlady (which is constantly interrupted by Norman bursting into their room) and the star's sentimental attachment to an old cart-horse (and whom the competition even contrive to poison in order to get them out of the way!). Besides, two extended set-pieces - one with Norman dressed as a priest disrupting Desmonde's golf game with John Le Mesurier, and his stint as a fireman (targeting Desmonde's entire office block) and featuring a young Peter Jeffrey as the fire chief - tend to fall flat on their faces rather than provide the intended hilarity!

now, everyone has their own opinion on movies and the comment above is fair if that is what he thinks, but, to me, this movie is still a great piece of work by the legendary, sir Norman wisdom. i admit, not my fav out of 13 films of his i've seen but its still good firm piece of British comedy which i, being British, am proud of. so, if you have enjoyed other classic movies of his such as one good turn, just my luck, up in the world,girl on the boat, the bulldog breed, follow a star and many, many others,then i suggest you give this a go and judge for yourself. "mr.grimsdale!" classic. i can honestly say, hand on hart, that sir Norman wisdom is a true legend and will always be a favourite actor of mine for the rest of my life.

At first I thought this film was in black and white, you have to turn the colour up quite a lot to see it. Yes it's Norman falling down a lot but it's done in a way that makes you think 'ouch', which when it happens in real life is usually funny, unless it's you that's falling down of course. Jerry Desmonde is excellent as the exasperated Dairy boss who has to endure Norman destroying everything from his green house and car to his entire Dairy, all by accident of course. If you like slap-stick you'll like this, even if you don't you probably will.