I've just watched this film for the first time yesterday and it finally solved a 53-year old mystery. I was 9 when it was made and lived over a row of shops in Hornchurch Road, Ernesettle (in Plymouth). One day that summer one end of the arcade was blocked off and loads of film equipment, lighting etc placed at the entrance to the Co-op - this was for the sequence near the beginning when Tom and Gus are outside a supermarket looking into the store with Tom shouting "run for your life!" when Gus mentions being caught for shoplifting. I've wondered since that time what film was being shot - now I finally know! Another odd coincidence, Gus's large family home near Honicknowle Green is now an old peoples home which I actually visited with a puppy during his training classes being held a stones throw away in Butt Road. All the pups and their owners visited the home to introduce them to strangers ie the residents. Needless to say, it looks quite different now but the big stone boundary wall is still there.
Review of The Uncle
