Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
Wilfrid Brambell
as Steptoe / Albert
Harry H. Corbett
as Son / Harold
Diana Dors
as Woman in Flat
Bill Maynard
as George
Milo O’Shea
as Doctor Popplewell
Neil McCarthy
as Lennie
George Tovey
as Percy
Sam Kydd
as Claude
Yootha Joyce
as Freda
Olga Lowe
as Percy's Wife
Joyce Hemson
as Claude's Wife
Henry Woolf
as Frankie Barrow
