The Cuckoo Patrol

1967
1h 16min

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3,4/10

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Kenneth Connor and Freddie Garrity in The Cuckoo Patrol (1967)

Comedy Musical

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA well-named Scout troop played by a real life pop group jumps through good turn-hoops, but keeps landing in the soup.A well-named Scout troop played by a real life pop group jumps through good turn-hoops, but keeps landing in the soup.A well-named Scout troop played by a real life pop group jumps through good turn-hoops, but keeps landing in the soup.

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NOTE IMDb

3,4/10

135

MA NOTE

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Took over two years to get a release at a time when the world moved on very quickly; Freddie & The Dreamers had been out of the charts for two years.

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Featured in The Cinema Snob: Cuckoo Patrol (2022)

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The Cuckoo Patrol
Music and lyrics by Freddie Garrity, Peter Birrell, Roy Crewdson, Bernie Dwyer, Derek Quinn (as Frederick Garrity and the Dreamers)

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4/10

Shamefully poor

A star vehicle for Freddie Garrity - of FREDDIE AND THE DREAMERS fame - THE CUCKOO PATROL is an entirely dated and lacklustre comedy centred around a Scout troop and the misadventures they get themselves into. This really is poverty row stuff, with awfully lame jokes and the sight of Garrity mugging and gurning towards the camera all the while. You wonder how on earth a production like this got made or who they were aiming at given the star's five minutes of fame had long since passed.

Still, for fans of cult and/or forgotten films, THE CUCKOO PATROL holds some fun. Kenneth Connor and John Le Mesurier contribute a nice little double act as the thoroughly exasperated scouting superiors and some of the sub-plots are quite fun, like when the Scouts unwittingly aid a criminal gang with their attempt at safecracking. But let's be fair, the quality of the writing is very poor here, and the film as a whole feels like something that came out of the 1930s rather than the late '60s. Victor Maddern gives the best performance as the gang boss.