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For over a decade, an ex-market stall trader from Liverpool called Eddie Braben wrote the scripts that made the nation take Morecambe and Wise to their hearts. But for Braben, it wasn't all sunshine. Beginning in 1969 with the birth of the 'golden triangle' of Eric, Ernie and Eddie, this film chronicles the grind that pushed the perfectionist Braben to the brink of exhaustion, culminating in the triumphant Christmas Day show of 1977.Read moreLess
For over a decade, an ex-market stall trader from Liverpool called Eddie Braben wrote the scripts that made the nation take Morecambe and Wise to their hearts. But for Braben, it wasn't all sunshine. Beginning in 1969 with the birth of the 'golden triangle' of Eric, Ernie and Eddie, this film chronicles the grind that pushed the perfectionist Braben to the brink of exhaustion, culminating in the triumphant Christmas Day show of 1977.
The story
For over a decade, an ex-market stall trader from Liverpool called Eddie Braben wrote the scripts that made the nation take Morecambe and Wise to their hearts. But for Braben, it wasn't all sunshine. Beginning in 1969 with the birth of the 'golden triangle' of Eric, Ernie and Eddie, this film chronicles the grind that pushed the perfectionist Braben to the brink of exhaustion, culminating in the triumphant Christmas Day show of 1977.
Cast & crew
Stephen TompkinsonEddie Braben
Mark BonnarEric Morecambe
Neil MaskellErnie Wise
Rufus JonesJohn Ammonds
Alex MacqueenBill Cotton
Liz WhiteDeirdre Braben
Adam JamesErnest Maxin
Katherine KingsleyJoan Morecambe
Natasha JosephDoreen Wise
Rosalind HalsteadVanessa Redgrave
Darren BransfordAndre Previn
Jon CulshawBarry CryerExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Tim Fleming
- Editor
- Alan Levy
- Original Music Composer
- Jessica Dannheisser
- Producer
- Alison Sterling
- Writer
- Neil Forsyth
- Director
- Dan Zeff