

On the Beat
As the COPPER who comes a CROPPER!
Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause
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- English
- black and white
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR1 Jan 1963
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU11 Dec 1962
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG21 Dec 1962
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On the Beat was released on 11 December 1962.
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CinemaSerf
3/25/2023
Sometimes I forget just how charismatic and talented Norman Wisdom was. I was never a fan of slapstick humour, but somehow he always manages to inject the tiniest elements of class - even sophistication - into his performances. Here, he delivers one of his better and harder-working efforts as "Pitkin"; son of a decorated police officer who, it had been deemed, is too short to serve in the constabulary himself - so he…
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