P'tang Yang Kipperbang (DVD)

P'tang Yang Kipperbang is an excellent British comedy and stars John Albasiny in the role of the wonderfully names Alan 'Quack Quack@ Duckworth, the film is set in post war Britain when the young schoolboy dreams of leading England to an Ashes victory and kissing the love of his life Ann Lawton played by Abigail Cruttenden. His chance to get close to Ann comes up when they are cast oppsite each other in the school play and the final scene has the two kissing much to the young Alan's delight. This is a delightful little comedy that has a crtain innocence about it so sadly lacking in many films that you see today, the post war era is realistically ...  Read the complete review

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang is a 1982 British film directed by Michael Apted and written by Jack Rosenthal, who based the story on his own childhood memories. The central protagonist of P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang, which is set just after the war in 1948, is young schoolboy Alan 'Quack Quack' Duckworth (John Albasiny). Alan is a hopeless daydreamer who has two great ambitions in life. The first is to score the winning runs for England in an Ashes series against Australia and the second is to kiss the angelic Ann Lawton (Abigail Cruttenden), a classmate at school he has a crush on. When Alan is cast in the school play alongside Ann and the script calls for them to kiss during a ...  Read the complete review

I remember watching this first time around on Channel 4 way back in the early 80's. To those who asked exactly what P'tang Yang Kipperbang means, you weren't watching the film closely enough or paying attention at all. The main boy and his friends all used made up words to substitute for normal every day words so PTYK was obviously something they made up for hello and goodbye. Listen to him when he is in the chip shop! The girl and Whittaker had their "Manyana, Mayana - Mayana's not soon enough for me". You clearly heard Whittaker say with great indignation "I don't do P'Tang Yang Kipperbang!". To the person who asked about the boxing glove ...  Read the complete review