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{{Infobox film
| name = The Bargee
| image = The_Bargee_(1964_film).jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Original British quad poster by [[Tom Chantrell]]
| director = [[Duncan Wood]]
| producer = W.A. Whittaker
| writer = [[Ray Galton]] [[Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)|Alan Simpson]]
| narrator =
| starring = [[Harry H. Corbett]] [[Hugh Griffith]] [[Eric Sykes]] [[Julia Foster]] [[Ronnie Barker]] [[Eric Barker]] [[Miriam Karlin]]
| music = [[Frank Cordell]]
| cinematography = [[Harry Waxman]]
| editing = [[Richard Best (film editor)|Richard Best]]
| studio = ABPC/Galton-Simpson
| distributor = [[Associated British Picture Corporation|Warner-Pathé Distributors]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1964|04|23|UK}} <ref name="Art & Hue">{{cite web|url=https://artandhue.com/shop/ronnie-barker/|title=Ronnie Barker |work=Art & Hue |date=2021 |access-date=22 April 2021}}</ref>
| runtime = 106 mins
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
}}
'''''The Bargee''''' is a 1964 British comedy film shot in [[Techniscope]] directed by [[Duncan Wood]], and starring [[Harry H. Corbett]], [[Hugh Griffith]], [[Eric Sykes]] and [[Ronnie Barker]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6a4a5c20|title=The Bargee (1964)|publisher=BFI|access-date=1 November 2019}}</ref> The screenplay was written by [[Ray Galton]] and [[Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)|Alan Simpson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/film/the_bargee/|title=The Bargee - Film - British Comedy Guide|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref>

==Plot==

Hemel Pike and his cousin Ronnie are two boatmen operating a canal-boat and its [[Narrowboat|butty]] for [[British Waterways]] on the [[Grand Union Canal]]. Although the canals are struggling due to declining traffic, Hemel refuses to give up his traditional lifestyle. He also enjoys his reputation as a [[Don Juan]], with girlfriends all across the canal network, something of which Ronnie is envious.

Hemel and Ronnie set out from [[Brentford]] to [[Boxmoor]], repeatedly encountering an inept "mariner" ([[Eric Sykes]]) in a small pleasure craft. At [[Rickmansworth]], Hemel visits one of his lovers, a barmaid called Nellie, but he has to make a quick exit when she accidentally learns about his other girlfriends. Hemel and Ronnie reach [[Boxmoor]] where they deliver their cargo before travelling on empty towards [[Birmingham]]. En route, Hemel meets up with another girlfriend.

Hemel's next call is Leg O'Mutton [[Lock (water transport)|Lock]] to meet Christine, the daughter of lock-keeper Joe Turnbull. Hemel thinks highly of Christine, but knows that Joe loathes the thought of his daughter becoming associated with a canal worker. On arrival, Ronnie takes Joe to the local pub to get him out of the way while Hemel and Christine get together. Christine, who hates the idea of living on a boat, attempts to persuade Hemel to leave the canal and get a job on land, but Hemel refuses, alarmed by her talk of marriage and settling down. Then he narrowly escapes from being caught by Joe who returns home drunk after being tricked into a drinking competition by Ronnie.

After Hemel and Ronnie have left for Birmingham, Joe discovers that Christine is pregnant. Dismayed and angry, and having learned from Christine that the father is one of the canal workers, Joe drains the [[canal pound]], padlocks the lock gates, and attaches a home-made bomb, and announces that he will prevent any traffic from passing through until the father comes forward. After various attempts to get him to stop have failed, Hemel and Ronnie arrive and, seeing the commotion and Christine being harassed by the locals, Hemel admits that he is the father.

Joe allows Hemel to move in to his house until he and Christine can be married, and Hemel tries to find a job on land, but he misses the lifestyle and independence he enjoyed on the canals.

At their wedding reception, Christine tells Hemel that she has a wedding gift for him and takes him to the canal where he sees that his boats have been renamed ''Hemel'' and ''Christine''. She tells him that Ronnie has learned that all working-boats are to be withdrawn from the canals in 18 months time, and that she will agree to live on the boats on the canal with him and their baby until they are withdrawn, so that his family, who have been on the canals since the beginning, will be there at the end as well.

==Cast==
* [[Harry H. Corbett]] as Hemel Pike
* [[Hugh Griffith]] as Joe Turnbull
* [[Eric Sykes]] as the Mariner
* [[Ronnie Barker]] as Ronnie
* [[Julia Foster]] as Christine Turnbull
* [[Miriam Karlin]] as Nellie Marsh
* [[Eric Barker]] as Mr Parkes, the Foreman
* [[Derek Nimmo]] as Dr. Scott
* [[Norman Bird]] as Albert Williams, the Waterways Supervisor
* [[Richard Briers]] as Tomkins
* [[Brian Wilde]] as Policeman
* [[Ronnie Brody]] as Ted Croxley
* [[George A. Cooper]] as Mr Williams, Office Official
* [[Ed Devereaux]] as Boat Man
* [[Wally Patch]] as Bargee
* [[Michael Robbins]] as Bargee
* [[Jo Rowbottom]] (credited as Jo Rowbotham) as Cynthia
* [[Grazina Frame]] as Office Secretary
* [[Una Stubbs]] as Bridesmaid
* [[Eileen Way]] as Onlooker
* [[Rita Webb]] as Onlooker and Wedding Guest
* [[Patricia Hayes]] as Onlooker
* [[Godfrey Winn]] as Announcer
* [[Edwin Apps]] as George the Barman

==Release==
The film opened at London's Empire Cinema on Leicester Square on 23 April 1964.<ref name="Art & Hue" />

==Reception==
''Kinematograph Weekly'' called the film a "money maker" for 1964.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://archive.org/details/KineWeekly2985/page/n8/mode/1up?q=%22john+guillermin%22|magazine=Kinematograph Weekly|first=Bill|last=Altria|title=British Films Romp Home - Fill First Five Places|date=17 Dec 1964|page=9}}</ref>

In a 2019 review for the ''[[Radio Times]]'', David Parkinson writes: "The poverty of the plot (in which Corbett's Lothario of the Locks is duped into matrimony) is nothing next to its intrinsic sexism. Corbett tuts and shrugs with characteristic melancholy, but to little effect."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/film/mbyvj/the-bargee/|title=The Bargee|work=Radio Times|access-date=1 November 2019}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0057872}}
* {{British Comedy Guide|film|the_bargee}}

{{Galton and Simpson}}

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[[Category:Films shot at Associated British Studios]]
[[Category:Films about infidelity]]
[[Category:Films set in Hertfordshire]]
[[Category:British pregnancy films]]
[[Category:1960s English-language films]]
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