Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.

Sparrows created a stir.  Its debut at the ABC Cinema in Stepney attracted a large audience of the rich and famous, including the notorious East End mobsters the Krays, who had a walk-on part near the end of the film.

CAST

James Booth ....  Charlie Gooding
Barbara Windsor ....  Maggie Gooding
Roy Kinnear ....  Fred Gooding
Avis Bunnage ....  Bridgie Gooding
Brian Murphy ....  Jack (George & Mildred)
George Sewell ....  Bert
Barbara Ferris ....  Nellie Gooding
Griffith Davies ....  Chunky
Murray Melvin ....  Georgie
Arthur Mullard ....  Ted
Peggy Ann Clifford ....  Ted's Wife
Wally Patch ....  Watchman
Bob Grant ....  Perce (On The Buses)
Stephen Lewis ....  Caretaker
Victor Spinetti ....  Arnold
Jenny Sontag ....  Momma
May Scagnelli ....  Gran
Fanny Carby ....  Lil
Yootha Joyce ....  Barmaid (George & Mildred)
Janet Howse ....  Janet
Queenie Watts ....  Queenie
Harry H. Corbett ....  Greengrocer (Steptoe & Son)
Glynn Edwards ....  Charlie's Friend  (Minder)
Stephen Lewis ....  Caretaker at Flats (On The Buses)

CLASSIC COMEDY DRAMA

PAL Format