The Pleasure Garden

  • Drama
  • Comedy
10/16/1953
38

Storyline

People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.

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Reviews

  • Geronimo1967

    There's something quite surreal about this quirky short film from James Broughton. It's all centred around an overgrown London park where the part-time warden/undertaker "Col. Gargoyle" (John Le Mesurier) spends his entire time putting up signs telling people what to do and what not to do - all the while being largely ignored by the people who use the space. No playing, no dancing, no singing, no running - they are all disregarded as this most eclectic mix of folks do everything from ballet to canoodling. It's presented as if it were a silent film with little dialogue - though Jean Anderson's "That's the best funeral I've been to all day" does stick in the mind. Hattie Jacques features - flamboyantly using her scarf as a garment and a usefu...

    February 8, 2024

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