The Boys from Fengkuei
1983
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- A bit of a strange little comedy, this. It's extremely episodic in nature, a string of slightly connected sketches centred around a sandwich man who wanders the streets of London and encounters various bizarre characters and situations along the way. Some of it is good, but the bits that aren't funny tend to outweigh those that are.
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The plot is agreeably simple, a serene 'Ulysses', as we follow a day in the life of a sandwich man, Horace Quilby, walking through London, passively plying his firm's wares, encountering a variety of eccentric locals on the way.
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Aug 25, 2022 · The best way to experience The Sandwich Man is just to sit back and let it all wash over you. The London we see here is a blend of grit and grime, sitting alongside creeping modernity, as the Big Smoke gets ready to start swinging.
The Sandwich Man: Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis. With Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan, Harry H. Corbett, Bernard Cribbins. A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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- Comedy
- Robert Hartford-Davis
- 1966-07-15
The Sandwich Man is like a documentary in drag. Michael Bentine, who wrote the screenplay with the director, Robert Hartford-Davis, seeks to give a picture of London and some of the...
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Sep 3, 2020 · The Sandwich Man is a collection of three vignettes based upon the short stories of one such writer, Huang Chun-Ming, who has proven to be influential in crafting a cultural identity for the country through his life’s work and teachings.
Popular reviews. This perfectly amiable, but nothing special, film has Michael Bentine as the living billboard of the title, wandering the streets of London and dipping in and out of the lives of the people whose paths he crosses, all of whom he seems to know.
