Four's a crowd

Abstract

Produced by the Waterside Workers Film Unit, Four's A Crowd is a slapstick comedy that highlights the negative effect of bad behaviour by individual workers on the collective union as a whole. The film illustrates how this bad behaviour creates a false impression of waterside workers on bosses and the wider public through the media. The Film Unit's Jock Levy plays each of the archetypal workplace villains - 'Glass Arm Harry', 'Tiddly Pete', 'Nick Away Ned' and 'Ron the Roaster'. Apart from a voiceover by Leonard Teale and a musical score, the film is silent in terms of dialogue and location sound. The film features a union song sung by Dick Hackett. According to author L. Milner, the film was made to counter mainstream press attacks on maritime workers.-- ACTU Institute website. -- Directors, photographers, editors, Keith Gow, Jerome Levy, Norma Disher; script, Keith Gow, Hugh Mason. Show more