Underplayed Gems

Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law (1978)

Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law poster
Original title
Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy
Directed by
Ere Kokkonen
Genre
comedy film
Country
Finland
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
S
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

Uuno Turhapuro, a bumbling hardware dealer and the president's son-in-law, gets into absurd situations. The film is built from recycled comedy sketches.

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What happens

Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro - presidentin vävy (Hardware Dealer Uuno Turhapuro, the President's Son-in-Law, also Hardware Dealer Numbskull Emptybrook, the President's Son-in-Law) is a Finnish 1978 comedy film written by Spede Pasanen and directed by Ere Kokkonen. It is the fifth film in the Uuno Turhapuro series, and it is the last Uuno Turhapuro film in black and white. The film's script is built on the basis of reheated sketches from the Spede Show, the most notable of which is the 13-minute "hardware store" sketch. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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