This 1. 97. 7 feature- film version of Are You Being Served? It was set in the ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London department store. It was written mainly by. The show revolved around 'Grace Brothers Department Store' and in particular the goings on within the 'Gentlemen's Ready-To-Wear' and 'Ladies' Separates and. Environmental economics Are you being served? Environmental entries are starting to appear on the balance sheet. Perhaps soon, the best things in life will not be free Apr 21st 2005 The cast of the Are You Being Served? With the news the hugely popular BBC sitcom - which regularly attracted 22million viewers in its heyday - is set for a high profile comeback later this year and. This page is dedicated to Trivia about the British comedies Are you Being Served? Announcing our new feature: Grace Brothers, a bulletin board for AYBS? The bizarre return of Are You Being Served? The Guardian back to top. Nicholas Smith, the actor who played store manager Mr Rumbold in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?, dies aged 81. The story is an adaptation of the successful stage version of the show, which played at Winter Gardens, Blackpool. The film also featured the performers from the television series, including Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister, Arthur Brough, Wendy Richard, and Nicholas Smith. As Grace Brothers is being redecorated, the management sends the staff on a paid holiday on resort Costa Plonka, in Spain. Their hotel and its surroundings prove to be dismal, and the group tries to pass the time by acting on the crushes they have developed for one another in the workplace. After the eventful plane flight, the staff arrive at the hotel; they are greeted by the hotel manager Carlos who says that no rooms are available until the day afterwards, but luxury penthouses are available for the night, so the staff decide to sleep in the penthouses. It turns out that Carlos's English isn't too good and gets his . Meanwhile, Carlos receives an unwelcome visit from an old acquaintance named Cesar who is after Mrs. Slocombe after seeing her (doctored) passport. He is also plotting a revolutionary uprising and wants to use the hotel as his base. The actor Nicholas Smith – best known for playing Mr Cuthbert Rumbold in the BBC television comedy Are You Being Served? The staff then decide to turn in for the night, but a night of tent swapping disturbs everyone. As Cesar is still after Mrs Slocombe, he goes into her tent to find Mr Humphries instead! After waking up the next morning, the Grace Brothers staff get a nasty ending to their holiday, narrowly surviving a gunfight between the revolutionaries and federal troops. During the gunfight, the staff lock Cesar in a bathroom stall and sends it floating up in the sky with a parachute. They are inadvertently saved by a group of tanks that arrive on the scene; these prove to have been commandeered by Young Mr. Grace, who wanted to visit his beleaguered underlings, but could not find a taxi. John Inman as Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, the senior sales assistant on the men's counter, expansive of personality and sexually ambivalent. Mollie Sugden as Mrs. Betty Slocombe, the head of the ladies department and the film's main female protagonist. She maintains an exaggeratedly dignified demeanour, but can easily become pugnacious in a crisis. Frank Thornton as Captain Stephen Peacock, the icy floorwalker at Grace Brothers. He fancies himself a ladies' man, and frequently makes himself ridiculous in his attempts to be seductive. Trevor Bannister as Mr. Dick Lucas, the disorganized junior of the men's department, quietly looked down upon by the other staff members. He has a seemingly insatiable tendency to make fun of his co- workers, and irritates Mrs. Slocombe especially. Wendy Richard as Miss Shirley Brahms, the Cockney junior of the ladies' department and Mrs. She is the most sensible person in her workspace, a fact of which she is irritably aware. Arthur Brough as Mr. Ernest Grainger, the head of the men's department and the oldest member of the staff. He has a kind heart, but tends to be cranky, forgetful, and perpetually ready to fall asleep. Nicholas Smith as Mr. He is constantly mocked because of his bald head and big ears. Harold Bennett as Young Mr. Grace, the ancient and quietly debauched head of Grace Brothers department store. Arthur English as Mr. Beverley Harman, the head of the packing department. Coarse of personality, he is clever enough to secure better treatment for himself than any of his nominal superiors. Karan David as Conchita, a young waitress who works at the hotel. Lusted after by several of the characters, she is smitten with Mr. Humphries (whom she makes intensely uncomfortable). Glyn Houston as Cesar Rodriguez, a terrorist with a crush on Mrs. Slocombe. Andrew Sachs as Don Carlos Bernardo, the moderately dishonest hotel manager, and Cesar's unwilling accomplice. Derek Griffiths, Nadim Sawalha, and Sheila Steafel as various Grace Brothers customers. Penny Irving as Miss Nicholson, Mr. Grace's new secretary. Raymond Bowers as the barber at Grace Brothers. Reception. At present, the film holds a 5. Rotten Tomatoes; the cutoff for a positive rating is 5.
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