Bindle (One of Them Days)

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Bindle (One of Them Days)
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Still from the film
Directed byPeter Saunders
Screenplay byGlynn Jones
Produced byArthur S. Ferriman
Starring Alfie Bass
Cinematography Gerald Gibbs
Edited by Peter Weatherley
Production
company
Tannsfeld Productions
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Bindle (One of Them Days), also known as Bindle and One of Them Days. is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Peter Saunders and starring Alfie Bass, based on the Bindle books by Herbert Jenkins. [1] The film concerns the adventures of an accident-prone furniture remover and his mate.

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Plot

Joseph Bindle is an ageing furniture remover and antique seller. In a dream he relives a day in the 1920s when he and his workmate Ginger are hired to move the furniture of Mr. Fawcett. One thing after another goes wrong.

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Production

The film was to have been the first of a series of films for TV, later aborted. In February 1966 Kine Weekly reported: "Arthur Ferriman, head of Tannsfield Films Ltd., and Tom Donald, joint managing director of Global Television, announce that it has been mutually agreed that the 'Bindle' series of hour-long films will not be handled by Global Television as previously announced." [2]

The Bindle books had been previously brought to the screen in the 1926 series of two-reeler shorts Bindle Introduced, Bindle at the Party, Bindle in Charge, Bindle's Cocktail, Bindle, Millionaire, and Bindle, Matchmaker; [3] and later in The Temperance Fête (1931).

Critical reception

In a contemporary review John Gillett wrote in Monthly Film Bulletin : "Apparently the first film in a projected series based on the popular characters created in the Twenties by Herbert Jenkins, Bindle (One of Them Days) has a surprising amount of charm (albeit of a slightly old-fashioned kind), deriving mainly from the lively, stylised dialogue-presumably taken from Jenkins' original and from the sharply observed playing of Alfie Bass as the much put-upon but resilient hero. Although allowing a few of the minor characters some excessive, TV-style mugging, Peter Saunders generally maintains a quietly humorous tone and a gently relaxed pace, and makes no attempt at any spurious set-pieces. The period decoration is unusually apt ... and there is a rich, though never overdrawn portrait of Mrs. Bindle, sharp-tongued and perpetually wailing, by Carmel McSharry. ... Certainly more varied and believable than Steptoe and Son (to which they are distantly related), the Bindle stories might still make a popular, if modest, series." [4]

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References

  1. "Bindle (One of Them Days)". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  2. "Bindle". Kine Weekly . 584 (3045): 3. 10 February 1966 via ProQuest.
  3. "Bindle Introduced". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  4. "Bindle (One of Them Days)". Monthly Film Bulletin . 40 (468): 23. February 1973 via ProQuest.