Steptoe and Son (film)

Infobox Film
name = Steptoe and Son


imdb_id = 0069311
producer = Aida Young
director = Cliff Owen
writer = Ray Galton
Alan Simpson
starring = Wilfrid Brambell
Harry H. Corbett
Carolyn Seymour
music = Roy Budd
Jack Fishman
Ron Grainer
cinematography = John Wilcox
editing = Bernard Gribble
distributor = MGM
EMI
released = 1972
runtime = 98 min.
language = English
followed_by = "Steptoe and Son Ride Again"

"Steptoe and Son" is a 1972 British comedy drama film and a spin-off from the popular British television comedy series of the same name about a pair of rag and bone men. It starred Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett as the eponymous characters and also featured Carolyn Seymour.

Plot

During a gentlemen's evening at a local football club, Harold meets one of the acts, a stripper called Zita. After a whirlwind romance the couple are married and they go on honeymoon. With Albert.After eating some of the local cuisine Albert is taken ill and Harold is forced to fly home with him, leaving Zita abroad. After three days Zita takes up with a holiday rep, leaving Harold heartbroken.On meeting Zita again Harold finds that she is pregnant but does not know who the baby's father is. Harold offers to take care of them both but on returning home Albert makes sure that Zita feels unwelcome and she flees. A short while later a baby appears in the horse's stable and it is obvious that this is Zita's child. They name the child after the priest who officiates the christening. Unfortunately for Harold, he is also called Albert.Zita soon returns and takes the baby back while Albert, who should be looking after him, is asleep. Harold tries to find her and comes across her in a local rugby club where she is soon forced into the scrum of cheering rugby fans. Attempting to save her, Harold is beaten up and is only rescued when Zita's musician saves him. Hustled into a back room he hears a baby's cries but when he pulls back a curtain a mixed-race baby is there instead. It turns out that Zita and her musician, who is black, are a couple. As Harold says at the end to his father "That one wasn't mine either".

Trivia

*The late EastEnders actor and comedian Mike Reid makes an early appearance.
*Carolyn Seymour, who plays Zita, has gone on to have a successful Hollywood career, most notably as a Romulan in Star Trek.
*Arthur the drag queen friend of Zita's was played by Patrick Fyfe who later had a successful career known as Dame Hilda Bracket of Hinge and Bracket.

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