For instance, at one point the plank is tied to the top of the car and projects backward into the open back of a large van.

The film was reissued in 1974,[2] with some scenes cut down or extended, and some put in a different order, with the music reapplied to suit; some voices were clarified.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Eric Sykes describes this film, in which he deliberately attempts to create an internationally accessible form of comedy by keeping dialogue to a bare minimum and concentrating on visual effects, as "an exposition of the mechanical gag".

But the mechanical gag as he employs it here (the plank carried on a workman's shoulder which bangs the head of an adjacent bystander, the absent-minded house-painter who paints both the doorway and the man standing in it) is a form already brilliantly exposed and explored in the early silent comedies for which Sykes has such an obvious affection.

Sykes himself is "Smaller workman" to Tommy Cooper's "Larger workman", and, although not all the jokes are completely fresh, the fun is in the effective sound effects, and the spotting of comedy icons such as Jimmy Edwards, Jimmy Tarbuck and Roy Castle in unfamiliar poses.