Bless This House is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas starring Sid James, Diana Coupland, Terry Scott, June Whitfield and Peter Butterworth.
Sid works as a rep and is trying to sell to the Fizzo Drinks company when his daughter Sally arrives with a group of environmentalists to protest the use of non-disposable containers.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "An essentially plotless collection of sketches, Bless This House ... depends for its humour on contrived and prolonged bouts of funny business, in which fire, water and do-it-yourself decorating provide the staples for some familiar slapstick routines.
As if R. D. Laing had never existed, the film trots out all the traditional ingredients of 'harmless' family entertainment, presenting a never-never land in which fathers simulate sternness behind their newspapers but crumble into sentimentality at the first signs of friction, where mothers are always attractive, cheerful and free from housework, and teenage children display a token rebelliousness but are golden-hearted enough to keep the family harmonious and lovable.
"[4] British film critic Leslie Halliwell said: "A suburbanite's multifarious frustrations culminate in preparations for his son's wedding.
This tedious spin-off from a TV sitcom virtually abandons plot in favour of an endless series of slapstick gags which could have been better presented.
"[5] A sequel was planned in 1976, but it was immediately cancelled after Sid James’s sudden death after collapsing on stage at the Sunderland Empire Theatre of a heart attack on 26 April.