Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric

Runtime : 50 mins

Genre : Documentary

Vote Rating : 7/10

Plot : A 1974 documentary in which comedian Dave Allen meets a variety of eccentrics including Alexander Stuart Wortley who lives in a box on wheels, a cowboy vicar and the artist/filmmaker Bruce Lacey showing his set-up where he pretends to fly a Lancaster bomber in his garage.

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