The Bailiffs is a 1932 British short comedy film directed by T.E.F. Cadman and starring Flanagan and Allen. The story was by Fred Karno and the film was made by Gaumont-British Picture Corporation at Ealing Studios.
Plot Flanagan and Allen play two incompetent debt-collectors who mistakenly visit the wrong house to repossess it.
Cast
Florence Harwood as Miss Templeman Chesney Allen as Meredith Bud Flanagan as Perkins Fred Karno as man in street Ian Wilson as butcher's boy Reginald Smith as manager Joyce Kirby as maid
Reception Kine Weekly wrote: "Flanagan and Allen, the famous music hall stars, appear in The Bailiffs, in which they portray the tribulations of a brace of 'brokers' men, whose incursion into the wrong house involves them in side-splitting complications. Clayton Hutton produced this amazing short from a story by Fred Karmo."
Home media The film was included on the DVD The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection – Volume 12 (Network, 2014).
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