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the familiar butler figure, Lampwick. Authors John Warren and John Singer have avoided the danger of fragmenting their story into a series of unrelated sketches; and though they don't invariably resist clichés (of character and situation), there is still much to enjoy. Cliff Owen's direction is imaginative; there is an engaging, if mild, element of black comedy (at one point
Charlie nonchalantly flicks his cigarette ash into the urn containing Reggie's cremated remains); and although the film is essentially Emery's vehicle, there are some amusing cameos – most notably, Brian Oulton's consolatory funeral director and Stefan Gryff's Mafia boss"
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manages to escape and deposits the £500,000 in a Swiss bank account. Peek meets Tully on his release, intending to give him the bank account number. But Peek has been having an affair with the sister of London crime lord Sid
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Charlie Tully and Reggie Peek have successfully conned a couple of Italian men, and are making an easy escape with £500,000. Flushed with success, Tully is unable to resist running a "quick and easy" con on a passing American tourist, but Tully is arrested. While Tully is imprisoned, Peek
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Peek has left a record of the bank account number, tattooed on the bottoms of four young women. Tully adopts a range of disguises to track down each woman in turn to see her naked bottom.
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963:Take My Tip
787:Writer only
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558:10 November
406:Louis Mansi
379:Louis Negin
367:David Healy
337:Norman Bird
333:as Jo Mason
243:comedy film
70:Produced by
65:John Singer
63:John Warren
50:Directed by
1748:1972 films
1742:Categories
1092:The W Plan
835:The Ringer
795:Red Pearls
508:References
458:Production
427:Phil Brown
408:as Mancini
319:Pat Coombs
301:Dick Emery
251:Dick Emery
247:Cliff Owen
221:Box office
192:97 minutes
176:1972-12-28
141:Production
92:Dick Emery
60:Written by
54:Cliff Owen
899:Jack Ahoy
767:Films of
471:Reception
345:as Vivian
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1382:Together
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224:£267,173
216:£201,443
205:Language
130:Music by
88:Starring
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208:English
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1716:(1957)
1697:(1965)
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279:Plot
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