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A Hole Lot of Trouble (1971)

A Hole Lot of Trouble poster
Directed by
Francis Searle
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
30 min
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of workmen dig a hole. Their attempts to do this simple task lead to comic complications.

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What happens

A Hole Lot of Trouble is a 1971 British short comedy film directed by Francis Searle and starring Arthur Lowe, Victor Maddern and Bill Maynard. It was written by Ian Flintoff. It charts the efforts of a group of workmen trying to dig a hole. A Hole Lot of Trouble is one of a series of 30-minute films directed by Searle in the "Screen Miniatures" series, which he made between 1966 and 1972. Others in the series are Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down (1966), The Pale Faced Girl (1968), Talk of the Devil (1968), Gold Is Where You Find It (1968), It All Goes to Show (1969) and A Couple of Beauties (1972). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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