Jack the Lad, Spiv, or just plain unscrupulous.
Albert is a cheerful, unscrupulous "tally-man", a door-to-door salesman who cons housewives into buying things they don't need on the instalment plan. He's happy - until he begins to fall in love.
Albert's falling in love is never convincing, and so it proved. This is a rather tawdry tale of a man who cons himself, and everybody else, through life.
He talks the unsuspecting into living on credit, "only pay a shilling in the pound ... each week".
Living on tick, hire-purchase, the never-never was a forerunner to the credit card society we live in today, except the bailiffs would be round to repossess your items of desire if you couldn't keep up the payments.
Albert has at least three women on the go, and three families he barely owns up to. He is a nasty character, although I think he was meant to be seen as a loveable rogue.
There is a top notch cast of familiar faces, many who went on to do better things than this.
Albert's falling in love is never convincing, and so it proved. This is a rather tawdry tale of a man who cons himself, and everybody else, through life.
He talks the unsuspecting into living on credit, "only pay a shilling in the pound ... each week".
Living on tick, hire-purchase, the never-never was a forerunner to the credit card society we live in today, except the bailiffs would be round to repossess your items of desire if you couldn't keep up the payments.
Albert has at least three women on the go, and three families he barely owns up to. He is a nasty character, although I think he was meant to be seen as a loveable rogue.
There is a top notch cast of familiar faces, many who went on to do better things than this.
- crumpytv
- 17 oct. 2022