Inn for Trouble

I like this film great cast are you being served was worse than this one this is one of the best comedies.alf and Ada at their best.they went from a pub to a cafe Leslie Phillips in another great role and Charles hawtrey this ranks with on the buses as one of the best TV spinoffs.thats your funeral was another great spinoff father dear father was another good film from the television series I know it wasn't a spinoff from a television series go for a take with norman rossington and the great reg varney next to thevcarry on films was one of the best of the seventies inn for trouble was great ok.

Preserving for posterity the cast of 'The Larkins' supported by the likes of Will Hay's fat boy and the Vicar in 'Dad's Army', you know what to expect when our heroes first arrive and the yokel they ask for directions is played by Stanley Unwin.

After twenty years of working for Leslie Phillips' brewery, a tied house has come up empty. By company tradition, managers with enough seniority get the house to run, and it's David Kossoff's turn. So he packs up the family and goes to deal with local coppers, local competitors and a community that has no taste for the national brew when a local baronet produces an excellent beer and gives it away even three months.

It's an attempt to transfer the TV success of THE LARKINS, an ITV show that ran from 1958 through 1964, to the big screen. As is usual with this sort of transfer, the main cast is put in a new situation, and it is hoped that the fans of the TV show will come out to see it on a big screen. Since I don't know the show, I found, for example, Peggy Mount as Kossoff's henpecking, never-listen-to-anyone wife more annoying than amusing, and stretching out a 30-minute episode to almost 90 can't have helped much. clearly, like other movies of its type -- I recall the 1960s BATMAN, MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E, and MCHALE'S NAVY theatrical releases, and they weren't very good. For this one, not only was there the issue of translation from one medium to another, but its moment has passed.

'Inn For Trouble' is a classic British comedy, with some great cast members, a good plot and loads of laughs, which score full pints with this viewer. Like many films from this period, half the pleasure lies in viewing a vanished world that never existed. Alan Wheatley reprises his role as the Sheriff of Nottingham (1950's TV Adventures of Robin Hood series) but in a suit; Leslie Phillips is the suave brewery owner; Charles Hawtrey is as mad as ever and there are bit parts from such greats as Irene Handl, Esme Cannon and Stanley Unwin. Immortals all! Anyone who doesn't like this film obviously has no sense of humour and has probably only watched it because it was part of a media studies course.

The Larkins are made managers of a country pub and get caught in the middle of several messes, including a local squire who makes his own beer and a new road that may be passing by the front door. As it is, there's no business. The pub is in the middle of nowhere and a local squire makes a beer far superior to the Belcher brand they must sell.

Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as the Larkins, a spin-off from a popular TV series of the day. They arrive in the country with a a dopey son (Shaun O'Riordan) and a Canadian relative (Roman O'Casey). The local squire (Glyn Owen) is involved with their only paying guest, a French artist (Yvonne Monlaur) while Silas (Charles Hawtrey) lurks about, trying to make them fail.

Not quite as zany as it could have been, but there are a few good laughs and Peggy Mount is always a joy to watch. Lots of familiar faces include Leslie Phillips as Belcher, Graham Moffatt, as Jumbo, Irene Handl as the post mistress, Esma Cannon as a local gossip, Alan Wheatley as the business rival, Willoughby Goddard as the constable, Betty Mitchell as the London neighbor, Gerald Campion as the scout, and A.E. Matthews as the aged hunter.

Worth a look.