The Pleasure Garden
DramaComedy
6/10
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|38 min
Release Date: 1953-10-16
Overview - People quietly or mischievously pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
Production Companies
Flights of FancyFarallone Films
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CinemaSerf
6/10
There's something quite surreal about this quirky short film from James Broughton. It's all centred around an overgrown London park where the part-time warden/undertaker "Col. Gargoyle" (John Le Mesurier) spends his entire time putting up signs telling people what to do and what not to do - all the while being largely ignored by the people who use the space. No playing, no dancing, no singing, no ...
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