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Singleton's Pluck: Directed by Richard Eyre. With Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Richard Hope, Bill Owen. A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his five thousand geese, one hundred miles to market.
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- Comedy
- Richard Eyre
- 1985-10
Dec 23, 2020 · Singleton's Pluck. I remember one Christmas in the 1970s when the local television news reported a story about a man who walked his geese to Smithfield Market in London, all the way from...
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Singleton's Pluck 1984 1h 33m Comedy List Reviews With pluckers on strike, a farmer (Ian Holm) must walk his 500 fatted geese 100 miles to market in London.
- Comedy
- Ian Holm, Penelope Wilton, Bill Owen
- Richard Eyre
Nov 21, 2020 · Touching British comedy about a determined farmer who must walk his 500 geese 100 miles to market because of a strike. He becomes a celebrity when the TV stations start covering his odyssey. Director: Richard Eyre.
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Singleton (Ian Holm) is a determined British farmer with a gaggle of holiday geese ready for market. It should be a simple task for Singleton to get his honking cargo to town, but it isn't. For starters, his drivers have gone on strike, so Singleton must take the geese himself.
This splendid film, generally, and best, titled SINGLETON'S PLUCK, is a tale of livestock raiser Ben Singleton (Ian Holm) who will not yield to pressure from the United Kingdom's Transport and General Workers Union, thereon taking it upon himself to walk his 500 plumped geese to London, in the absence of available union-controlled lorry ...
