Film
The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
1977Directed by Jim Franklin
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- Released
- Runtime
- 30m
About The Testing of Eric Olthwaite
- Comedy
Synopsis
Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers that the robber shares his interests in shovels, black pudding and rainfall so they team up to make daring raids to steal rainfall records. As a result Eric becomes famous and is considered interesting again, so much so that he is made the mayor of Denley Moor.
- Director
- Jim Franklin
- Writers
- Michael Palin
- Terry Jones
