Nearest And Dearest
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When their father dies, brother and sister Eli and Nellie Pledge find themselves in charge of the family pickle empire. But they're as different as chalk and cheese.
Eli is a leering lecher who'll chase anything in a skirt, while his sister is a daft old spinster with old-fashioned morals.
Eli wants out of the business to booze and chase women, but he can't leave until Nellie is wed. And the prospects of that happening are pretty poor.
So when Eli meets a rival pickle magnate on holiday in Blackpool who just happens to be a bachelor, the wheels in his mind start to turn. Suddenly he's playing cupid
to the most unlikely love match in Lancashire...
Starring the original cast from the smash hit TV Series, Nearest And Dearest is a romp every bit as hot and spicy as Pledge's Purer Pickles!
Cast In Alphabetical Order
Adele Warren as Mimi the stripper
Bert Palmer as Bert Henshaw
Carmel Cryan as Club Hostess
Donald Bisset as Vicar
Edward Malin as Walter Tattersall
Hylda Baker as Nellie Pledge
Janie Collinge as Vinegar Vera
Jimmy Jewel as Eli Pledge
Joe Gladwin as Stan Hardman
John Barrett as Joshua Pledge
Kerry Jewel as Claude
Madge Hindle as Lily Tattersall
Norman Chappell as Man on Bus
Norman Mitchell as Vernon Smallpiece
Nosher Powell as The Bouncer
Pat Ashton as Freda
Peter Madden as Court Bailiff
Sue Hammer as Scarlet O'Hara
Yootha Joyce as Mrs. Rhoda Rowbottom
Crew
Directed by John Robins
Produced by Michael Carreras & Roy Skeggs
Screenplay by Tom Brennand & Roy Bottomley
Based on the TV series by Vince Powell & Harry Driver
Running Time 83 Minutes.
Released 1972