Directed by:
Gerald ThomasScreenplay:
Talbot RothwellCinematography:
Ernest StewardCast:
Sidney James, Jim Dale, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Shakira Caine, Wilfrid Brambell, Valerie Leon, Patricia Hayes, Patsy Rowlands (more)VOD (1)
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Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two. (MUBI)
Cast
Sidney James
South Africa
Best movies:
Father Brown (1954)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
The Silent Enemy (1958)
Jim Dale
UK
Best movies:
The Iron Maiden (1962)
Nurse on Wheels (1963)
Carry On Cleo (1964)
Kenneth Williams
UK
Best movies:
Carry On Cleo (1964)
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
Innocents in Paris (1953)
Charles Hawtrey
UK
Best movies:
The Woman Alone (1936)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Joan Sims
UK
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985) (TV movie)
Deceptions (1985) (TV movie)
Shakira Caine
Best movies:
L'Homme qui voulut ĂȘtre roi (1975)
Wilfrid Brambell
Ireland
Best movies:
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Valerie Leon
UK
Best movies:
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
The Italian Job (1969)
Patricia Hayes
UK
Best movies:
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
The Best of Benny Hill (1974)
Patsy Rowlands
UK
Best movies:
A Stitch in Time (1963)
A Kind of Loving (1962)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) (TV movie)
Gwendolyn Watts
UK
Best movies:
Billy Liar (1963)
The Wrong Box (1966)
Fanatic (1965)
Barbara Windsor
UK
Best movies:
It Couldn't Happen Here (1987)
Comrades (1986)
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
Hattie Jacques
UK
Best movies:
Oliver Twist (1948)
Follow a Star (1959)
School for Scoundrels (1960)
Lucy Griffiths
UK
Best movies:
Murder She Said (1961)
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Follow Me! (1972)
William Mervyn
Kenya
Best movies:
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Hot Millions (1968)
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
Pat Coombs
UK
Best movies:
A Stitch in Time (1963)
Follow a Star (1959)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Ann Lancaster
UK
Best movies:
Three Bites of the Apple (1967)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Elspeth March
UK
Best movies:
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Quo Vadis (1951)
A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Bob Todd
UK
Best movies:
The Four Musketeers (1974)
The Best of Benny Hill (1974)
Hot Millions (1968)