Steptoe and Son Ride Again

Steptoe and Son Ride Again

99 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 1, 1973

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.

Steptoe and Son Ride Again

99 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 1, 1973

Steptoe and Son Ride Again
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Associated London Films, Anglo-EMI
Original title Steptoe and Son Ride Again
Directors Josie Fulford, Graham Ford, Peter Sykes
Writers Alan Simpson, Ray Galton

Cast

Wilfrid Brambell

as Steptoe / Albert

Harry H. Corbett

as Son / Harold

Diana Dors

as Woman in Flat

Bill Maynard

as George

Milo O’Shea

as Doctor Popplewell

Neil McCarthy

as Lennie

George Tovey

as Percy

Sam Kydd

as Claude

Yootha Joyce

as Freda

Olga Lowe

as Percy's Wife

Joyce Hemson

as Claude's Wife

Henry Woolf

as Frankie Barrow

Geoffrey Bayldon

as Vicar

Frank Thornton

as Mr. Russell

Eamonn Boyce

as Barrow's Crony

Hilda Barry

as Woman with Carrot

Joan Ingram

as Lady in Butcher's Shop

Rafiq Anwar

as Doctor

Siobhan Quinlan

as Nurse

Stewart Bevan

as Vet

Grazina Frame

as Dolly Bird

Peter Newby

as Boy