Sybil Thorndike

Kathleen Harrison

Estelle Winwood

Stanley Holloway

Joyce Carey

Eric Pohlmann

Colin Gordon

John Salew

Liam Redmond

Marjorie Rhodes

Olive McFarland

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Paul Farrell

Patrick McAlinney

Raymond Manthorpe

Tony Quinn

Harry Hutchinson

Brendan O'Dowda

Joseph MacNally

Richard Harris

Liz Fraser

George Hilsdon

Totti Truman Taylor

Billy Lawrence

Cyril Frankel

Denis Cannan

Victor Skutezky

Philip Green

Bernard Gribble

Robert Lennard

Gilbert Taylor

Comedy

Alive and Kicking

Diador

United Kingdom

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No, the story isn't great - but the delivery is really quite good fun. Three elderly ladies, who are not yet ready to be consigned to the scrap heap, pinch a boat and escape from their retirement home. They alight on a tiny Irish island where they befriend the wealthy Stanley Holloway ("MacDonagh") and establish a thriving business with the locals knitting fine Aran sweaters. My personal favourite amongst the runaways was Estelle Winwood's "Mabel", but there are also amusing contributions from Dame Sybil Thorndike ("Dora") and Kathleen Harrison, who wasn't anywhere near her best, as "Rosie". What I had forgotten, too, was that Stanley Holloway had quite a good singing voice - though his delivery is a bit overly theatrical. Add some mischief and some bonhomie - especially with Russian fishing boat captain Eric Pohlmann, and we have an entertaining drama that shows the three having a lark - and that is contagious. Well worth a watch, this.

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"Alive and Kicking": Out on DVD 7/7/2014