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5.4/10   44 votes
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Director:
Charles Saunders
Writers:
Allan MacKinnon (writer)
John Roddick (idea)
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Release Date:
May 1955 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Drama
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Crime caper comedy is trivial stuff... more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Paul Carpenter ... Bob Bartlett
June Thorburn ... Pat
Marla Landi ... Terry Savarese
Alexander Gauge ... Mr. Arnold
Charles Farrell ... Posh Peterson
Larry Burns ... Alfie
Christine Silver ... Becky Crumb
Nora Nicholson ... Rachael Crumb
Christopher Steele ... Vicar
Jan Holden ... Miss Wentworth
Ronnie Stevens ... Bill, the Photographer
Max Brimmell ... Staines
Colin Douglas ... Martin
Wilfred Fletcher ... Woolgar
Trevor Reid ... Detective Sergeant Filson
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Additional Details

Runtime:
64 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Crime caper comedy is trivial stuff..., 21 May 2007
5/10
Author: Neil Doyle from U.S.A.

...but sufficiently amusing if you like British comedies from the '50s.

A thief hides his loot in an old barge while two nosy old ladies watch from their window. Plot complications ensue when he tries to retrieve the loot later on in the West-End section of London. The bungled attempts of the burglars provide mild amusement.

The story also includes a junk dealer who arranges for two girls to rent the barge when they're looking for an apartment to share. What they don't know is that the loot (twenty-thousand pounds worth of jewelry) is hidden beneath the floor boards on the barge.

It's played in good farcical fashion and the laughs are deserved because they're not hammered home as they sometimes are in these kind of British comedies. The players are all unfamiliar to me, but they do well to sustain the frantic pace of the slim story.

Summing up: Nothing special, but guaranteed to amuse.

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