A Home of Your Own

A Home of Your Own (1964)

Comedy

A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day when the site is first selected, to the day – several years and children later – when the couple finally move in, the story is a noisy but wordless comedy of errors as the incompetent labourers struggle to complete the house. It may well have been inspired by the success of Bernard Cribbins' classic song of the same vein from two years earlier, "Right Said Fred". In this satirical look at British builders, many cups of tea are made, windows are broken and the same section of road is dug up over and over again by the water board, the electricity board and the gas board. Ronnie Barker’s put-upon cement mixer, Peter Butterworth’s short-sighted carpenter and Bernard Cribbins’ hapless stonemason all contribute to the ensuing chaos.

Director: Jay Lewis
Writers: Jay Lewis, Johnny Whyte.

Casts

	Ronnie Barker as The Cement Mixer
	Richard Briers as The Husband
	Peter Butterworth as The Carpenter
	Bernard Cribbins as The Stonemason
	Bill Fraser as The Shop Steward
	Norman Mitchell as The Foreman
	Ronnie Stevens as The Architect
	Fred Emney as The Mayor
	Janet Brown as Surveyor's Wife
	Gerald Campion as Glazier
	Bridget Armstrong as The Wife
	George Benson as Gatekeeper
	Helen Cotterill as Mayor's daughter
	Douglas Ives as Old workman
	Harry Locke as Gas Board Foreman
	Jack Melford as Telephone engineer
	Thelma Ruby as Mayor's wife
	Tony Tanner as Workman with radio
	Thorley Walters as Estate agent
	Aubrey Woods as Water Board Inspector
	Henry Woolf as Diviner

Crew