Over the Garden Wall is a 1950 British "B"[1] comedy film directed by John E. Blakeley and starring Norman Evans, Jimmy James and Dan Young.
[1] Working class couple Fanny and Joe are determined to give their daughter Mary and her husband a posh home-coming party.
He had previously played this role in the 1944 film, Demobbed, in which his Fanny character appears as a pantomime dame in a comedy burlesque concert staged by a group of demobilised soldiers.
Fanny appears in a monologue sketch entitled "Over the Garden Wall" gossping with an unseen neighbour, Mrs Jones.
[4]: 63 Kine Weekly called the film a "disjointed knockabout comedy",[5] adding "the picture tries to set off its corny cracks against a romantic background, but the tangled love interest is so clumsily handled that unintentional laughs are more numerous than intentional.