Comedy about Rooney, a Gaelic sportsman and Dublin rubbish collector, and his landlady's family. Stars John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow, Barry Fitzgerald, June Thorburn, Noel Purcell and more.
The 1950s, the first decade after World War 2 and after years of rationing and austerity, film makers decided it was time for the British public to laugh again!
The decade saw some of the best British comedy films ever made and some of the best actors emerge. Actors such...
Set in 1950s Dublin, John Gregson is the irrepressible James Ignatious Rooney, the hurling loving dustman. Landladies fall at his feet and it's not due to the stench of rubbish from his daily collections! Rooney is too much of a gentleman to bring his work home with him. No, it's...