Over the Garden Wall (1950 film)

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.

Comedian Norman Evans appears in drag in the lead role as housewife Fanny Lawton
Over the Garden Wall was filmed at Dickenson Road Studios in Rusholme , Manchester