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The Punch and Judy Man is a British film of genre Drama with Tony Hancock
The Punch and Judy Man (1963)
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Add to a movie listThe Punch and Judy Man is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Jeremy Summers from a script by Philip Oakes and Hancock for the Associated British Picture Corporation. It was Tony Hancock's second and last starring role in a film, following The Rebel (1961).
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Based on Hancock's childhood memories of Bournemouth, the movie is set in 1963 in the sleepy fictional seaside town of Piltdown. Hancock plays Wally Pinner, the unhappily married Punch and Judy Man. Wally and the other beach entertainers, the Sandman (John Le Mesurier) who makes sand sculptures, and Neville the photographer (Mario Fabrizi) are socially unacceptable to the town's snobbish elite.Actors
Tony Hancock
(Walter Pinner)
Sylvia Syms
(Delia Pinner)
Ronald Fraser
(Mayor Palmer)
Barbara Murray
(Lady Jane Caterham)
John Le Mesurier
(The Sandman)
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