''Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width'' is a rarely seen 1973 British

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directed by Ronnie Baxter and starring

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, Joe Lynch and Bernard Stone. It was a spin-off from the ITV television series ''

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width ''Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width'' is a British television sitcom first broadcast in 1967 as a single play in the ''Armchair Theatre'' anthology series, later becoming a series of half-hour episodes, which ran until 1971. A total of 40 ...

'' about two mismatched

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s in the East End of London.

Plot

In the course of the film, Manny and Patrick hire a sexy new assistant Rita, seriously fall out after a gambling incident, experience woman trouble, find themselves burgled, and eventually end up on holiday in Rome after posing as priests. Rita is played by Wendy King

Cast

as Manny Cohen * Joe Lynch as Patrick Kelly *

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as Mrs. Finch * Wendy King as Rita * Ann Beach as Bridie *

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as Father Ignatious * Bernard Stone as Nathan *

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as Larkin *

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as Rabbi *

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as Bishop Rourke * David Kelly as Murphy *

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as Tramp * Vicki Woolf as Maria * Hilary Farr as Gina (as Hilary Labow) * Paddy Joyce as Riley *

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as Swiss Guard * Peter Denyer as Lad

Critical reception

Sky Movies wrote, "although one of the better TV spin-offs, this is not so much a feature film as three episodes strung together by a tenuous overall storyline. Indeed, the episodes, chronicling the abrasive love-hate relationship between two East London tailors - one

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, the other

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- are themselves composed of sketches."

References

External links

* 1973 films British comedy films 1973 comedy films Films shot at Pinewood Studios Films set in London Films based on television series EMI Films films 1970s English-language films 1970s British films {{1970s-UK-comedy-film-stub