The Bulldog Breed

1960
1h 37m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Norman Wisdom in The Bulldog Breed (1960)

When he is crossed in love, grocers assistant Norman Puckle joins the Navy, where he is recruited to man the first British rocket.When he is crossed in love, grocers assistant Norman Puckle joins the Navy, where he is recruited to man the first British rocket.When he is crossed in love, grocers assistant Norman Puckle joins the Navy, where he is recruited to man the first British rocket.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

946

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos10

More like this

6.9

6.5

6.6

6.8

6.5

6.1

6.6

6.8

6.5

5.9

6.3

7.1

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
Norman Wisdom always congratulated Terence Alexander on being able to keep a straight face. Later Alexander admitted that had he not been making so much money from these films, he would have told Wisdom that the reason for his straight face was that he did not find Wisdom remotely funny.

Goofs
When Puckle views the Earth from the spaceship (c. 128 minutes), he sees lines of latitude and longitude and countries marked in various colours, just as an inflatable plastic globe atlas usually has.

Crazy credits
'Bosun' - the bulldog in opening credits

Connections
Featured in Mike Baldwin & Me (2001)

Soundtracks
Shenandoah
(uncredited)
Traditional
Heard as a theme

User reviews22

Featured review

5/10

Competent Norman Wisdom Vehicle

Despite the advice of the scientists who built it, Admiral Ian Hunter insists that any idiot can run the controls for the first manned spaceship, so long as he has passed basic training for the Royal Naval. Unfortunately, the idiot chosen is Norman Wisdom.

It's another vehicle for Mr. Wisdom, in the sort of role that George Formby might have played in his day, minus the singing. Most of the routines are standard for a service comedy, although there are one or two that are better than usual: an early series, where he tries to commit suicide, and one where he paints a ship's hull. The women, who are just present for eye candy, include Liz Fraser and Ann Scott. If you look carefully, you can see uncredited Michael Caine and Oliver Reed in a fight.