The Bargee (The Bargee) (1964)

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"Dated comedy with Harry H. Corbett as a barge worker, travelling up and down the English canals, with women at every lock house. When he gets one of the girls pregnant and her father is very overprotective, he has to change his ways. The cast of supporting actors is made up of the good and the great of British comedy at that period, although the humour maybe slightly of its time, it passed a lazy Sunday afternoon nicely."

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"A comedy movie revolving around a dying industry in the UK during the early 60's - that of transporting goods via canal barge. Harry H Corbett plays Hemel Pike, a charmer of the canals who has a girl at every stop. It's no coincidence that the writers behind this movie Galton & Simpson also wrote the sitcom Steptoe & Son that Corbett was starring at this time. The plot is about one of Corbett's women who falls pregnant and the fiery father played by Hugh Griffith who is determined to find out wh"