Margery & Gladys [DVD] [Import]

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Margery & Gladys [DVD] [Import]

Margery & Gladys [DVD] [Import]

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Penelope Keith plays her usual middle class lady looking down upon all and sundry but her character is one dimensional and there is only so many times that you can chuckle at her snobby sarcasm and her superior tone of voice.

Here, she plays a 60-something widow who lives in a posh neighborhood that has been the target a recent break-ins. Margery (Penelope Keith) and Gladys (June Brown), the housekeeper, are involved in a crime spree in the aftermath of an attempted burglary at Margery's house in middle class UK suburbia. Ms Keith plays Margery, a tetchy suburban matron -- recently widowed -- who attends a Neighbourhood Watch meeting that leaves her paranoid about burglars.Penelope Keith (classy as ever) has played society matrons and snobbish beldames in several long-running sitcoms.

It is easy for the frequent viewer of television to become pessimistic about the future of the medium. For those who know Penelope Keith only as Margo or Audrey from TV, her dramatic moments in this film will be a real eye-opener. It was subsequently repeated on ITV3 on 6 March 2016, its first repeat in the United Kingdom since its original broadcast in 2003. When wealthy, recently-widowed suburban housewife, Margery (PENELOPE KEITH), and her ‘rough diamond’ of a cleaner, Gladys (JUNE BROWN), disturb a house burglar, they knock him unconscious, panic and leave him for dead, fleeing in the cleaner’s wrecked old car. Also good are Adam Godley as Keith's repressed son with a cleaning fetish, Roger Lloyd Pack as the detective counting the days til retirement, Peter Vaughan as Brown's smarmy husband, and Martin Freeman as the dumb sergeant.Read all Haughty, recently-widowed Margery Heywood and her cleaner Gladys Gladwell go on the run after mistakenly believing that they have killed a teenage burglar, holding up a post office for Gladys' money, and giving petty crook Terry Mason a lift, they are pursued by the police. They prove to be more than a match for the unlikely pair of policemen, DI Woolley (Roger Lloyd Pack) and DS Stringer (Martin Freeman), who are left to solve the ladies disappearance and puzzling string of crimes which follow. By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. The George Formby impersonators in Blackpool sing Formby's hit "Leaning on a Lamp Post" several times and also during the closing credits along with his "My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock.

Although Penelope Keith mentions "the George Formbys," his soundtracks are not used and he gets no screen credit. B. worked their 'unlikely ladies double act' off perfectly, with Penelope's slightly snobbish employer of June's cleaner character. Aside from hiding from the police, they have to deal with Brown's diabetes and the fact they left the house without any money or credit cards.This film reminds me of a Simpsons episode, when Marge is at a book-club meeting with Helen Fielding. There are some bizarre incidents, as the two women must commit other crimes to obtain funds and medications. Starring Penelope Keith and June Brown as the title characters, it was produced by Carlton Television for ITV and directed by Geoffrey Sax. The pairing of Penelope Keith and June Brown seemed a bit strange to me, but as there seemed to be nothing else on that night, I watched this, and I'm glad I did. As a person over 60 with UK background, I was delighted by the snatches of George Formby songs towards the end.



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