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John Le Mesurier
Filmography
John Le Mesurier - filmography
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Dad's Army - Series 6
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier, John Le Mesurier
Director: David Croft
Certificate: 
All seven episodes from the sixth series of the BBC wartime comedy classic, about a bumbling platoon of Home Guard soldiers led by the pompous Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), who are defending the sleepy village of Walmington-on-Sea in the Second World War. In this series, the platoon have to ..read more »
 
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from 1,198 member
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Dad's Army - Series 5
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Bill Pertwee, Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier
Certificate:
All 13 episodes from the fifth series of the BBC wartime comedy classic, about a bumbling platoon of Home Guard soldiers led by the pompous Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), who are defending the sleepy village of Walmington-on-Sea in the Second World War. In this series, the platoon get trapped in ..read more »
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from 1,424 member
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Dad's Army - Series 4
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Bill Pertwee, Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier
Director: David Croft
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Complete fourth series of the much-loved classic BBC sitcom, set amongst the incompetent members of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard during the Second World War. Led by the officious Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), the platoon are always poised to repel an invasion by the dreaded Nazi ..read more »
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from 1,939 member
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Dad's Army - Series 3
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Clive Dunn, James Beck, John Le Mesurier
Director: David Croft
Certificate: 
Complete third series of the popular British television comedy, about the members of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard in the early years of the Second World War. In this series, Jones (Clive Dunn) lets the platoon use his butcher's van as a troop-carrier, Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) is furious when ..read more »
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from 2,134 members
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Jabberwocky
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Annette Badland, Rodney Bewes, Harry H. Corbett
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Set in the medieval period, this light-hearted comedy was written by Terry Gilliam and Charles Alverson and stars Michael Palin, supported by the Monty Python team. Dennis Cooper (Palin), a cooper's apprentice, is mistaken for a prince and declared the Dragonslayer. However, he must live up to his ..read more »
61%
from 3,220 members
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Stand Up Virgin Soldiers
(1977)
Starring: Robin Askwith, Nigel Davenport, George Layton
Director: Norman Cohen
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The follow-up to THE VIRGIN SOLDIERS, STAND UP VIRGIN SOLDIERS continues the adventures of army buddies Pvt. Brigg and Sgt. Driscoll as they travel the world chasing military nurses and local women. In this sequel, the pair find themselves stationed in Singapore, where the beautiful women ..read more »
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from 2 members
Currently unavailable
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Dad's Army - Series 8
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier, John Le Mesurier
Director: Kevin Davies
Certificate:
All six episodes from the eighth series of the BBC wartime comedy classic, about a bumbling platoon of Home Guard soldiers led by the pompous Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), defending the sleepy village of Walmington-on-Sea in the Second World War. In this series, the platoon is ordered to star ..read more »
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from 634 members
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The Complete Bod Featuring Alberto Frog
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: John Le Mesurier, Bod, John Le Mesurier
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Every single episode of Bod is collected together here, plus five extended programmes featuring Alberto the Frog and his Animal Band. Stories featured are: 'Bod's Dream'; 'Bod in the Park'; 'Bod and the Rain'; 'Bod and the Breakfast'; 'Bod on the Beach'; 'Bod and the Dog'; 'Bod and the Cake'; 'Bod ..read more »
64%
from 374 members
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Brief Encounter
(1974)
Starring: Ann Firbank, Jack Hedley, Sophia Loren
Director: Alan Bridges
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Adaptation of the classic play by Noel Coward and a remake of David Lean's 1945 film. Anna Jesson (Sophia Loren) travels on the same train every day into the city, where she sees her volunteer work as a break from her husband and children. When she strikes up a casual friendship with fellow ..read more »
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from 126 members
Not available for rental
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Frankie Howerd at ITV
(1973)
Starring: Julie Ege, John Le Mesurier, John Le Mesurier
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A collection of TV shows featuring the British comic. Over a career spanning four decades, Frankie Howerd's camp double-entendres and meandering tales became a regular feature on British television. This set features six shows recorded for ITV between 1973 and 1991, with guests including John Le ..read more »
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from 3 members
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Au Pair Girls
(1972)
Starring: Ferdy Mayne, Me Me Lay, Gabrielle Drake
Director: Val Guest
Certificate: 
These sexy au pairs only came to make the beds... but they end up doing everything! Four Continental dolly-birds arrive in London to work as home-helps, but within
24-hours they all lose all of their clothes in this raucous 1970s sex comedy classic! Directed by veteran filmmaker Val Guest (..read more »
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from 501 members
Due for release on 29th July 2013
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Dad's Army - The Movie
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Bill Pertwee, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn
Director: Norman Cohen
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When World War Two breaks out, the small seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea finds itself less than ably defended by the elderly and inept members of Captain Mainwaring's (Arthur Lowe) home guard unit. Put on manoeuvres by a visiting Major-General, Mainwaring's men manage to bungle one task after ..read more »
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from 1,441 member
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Doctor In Trouble
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Joan Sims, Irene Handl, Harry Secombe
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Last in the 'Doctor' series. Troubles befall Dr Burke (Leslie Phillips) when he stows away on an ocean liner and poses as a female photographer. Once more the young doctor runs into the authorative figure of a Spratt, but this time it is Sir Lancelot's brother Captain Spratt (Robert Morley).
62%
from 386 members
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The Magic Christian
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Wilfrid Hyde White, Peter Sellers
Director: Joseph McGrath
Certificate: 
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This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers). Setting sail on the luxury liner The Magic Christian, Sir Grand tests the limit of human avarice. With money to motivate the greedy, Laurence Harvey combines his ..read more »
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from 487 members
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The Italian Job
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Irene Handl, Noel Coward, Raf Vallone
Director: Peter Collinson
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The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career criminals throughout one of the biggest international gold heists in history. Michael Caine is Charlie Croker, a stylish robber and skirt-chaser just out of British prison. ..read more »
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from 38,523 members
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The Italian Job - Blu-ray
(1969)
Starring: Irene Handl, Noel Coward, Raf Vallone
Director: Peter Collinson
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Upon leaving jail, petty criminal Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) inherits a carefully planned $4,000,000 gold robbery in Italy. With the original mastermind of the plan murdered, Croker needs financial backing and finds it in Mr Bridger (Noel Coward in his last screen role), a quintessential ..read more »
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from 1,503 member
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Dad's Army - Series 1 And 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Bill Pertwee, Clive Dunn, James Beck
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All nine surviving episodes from Series 1 and 2 of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's classic BBC wartime comedy based around the Home Guard in Walmington-on-Sea. In 'The Man and the Hour', bank manager Captain Mainwaring (Arhtur Lowe) is put in charge of Walmington-on-Sea's new Local Defence Volunteers ..read more »
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from 3,029 members
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Dad's Army - The Very Best Of Dad's Army...
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Bill Pertwee, Clive Dunn, James Beck
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Five episodes from the popular BBC comedy series about the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard. In 'No Spring for Frazer', Frazer loses the spring from Captain Mainwaring's machine gun. 'Mum's Army' sees Captain Mainwaring recruiting womenfolk into the regiment, while in 'Menace from the Deep', the ..read more »
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from 1,334 member
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Dad's Army - Series 7
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier, John Le Mesurier
Director: David Croft
Certificate:
All six episodes from the seventh series of the BBC wartime comedy classic, about a bumbling platoon of Home Guard soldiers led by the pompous Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), who are defending the sleepy village of Walmington-on-Sea in the Second World War. In this series, Mainwaring puts the ..read more »
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from 1,033 member
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Cuckoo Patrol
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: John Le Mesurier, Kenneth Connor, Victor Maddern
Director: Duncan Wood
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Musical comedy starring Freddie Garrity, formerly of the 1960s pop band Freddie and the Dreamers, as a jovial but hapless scout leader. Freddie (Garrity)'s troop of scouts get into all manner of fixes and scrapes on their way to camp - and their leader is every bit as reckless and easily led as his ..read more »
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from 18 members
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The Moon Spinners
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Joan Greenwood, Sheila Hancock, Hayley Mills
Director: James Nielson
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Classic romance based on the novel by Mary Stewart. Nikky Ferris (Mills) is spending time in Crete at a small inn called The Moon-Spinners with her Aunt Frances (Joan Greenwood). One day Nikky discovers a handsome young man, Mark Camford (Peter McEnery), wounded in an empty church nearby. It turns ..read more »
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from 184 members
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The Wrong Arm Of The Law
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Nanette Newman, Bernard Cribbins, Peter Sellers
Director: Cliff Owen
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Cockney gang leader Pearly Gates (Peter Sellers) enters into an unlikely collaboration with Scotland Yard to track down three Australian criminals, themselves disguised as policemen, who are stealing the gang's illicitly gained earnings. British comedy featuring a host of familiar faces including ..read more »
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from 973 members
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Waltz Of The Toreadors
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Denise Coffey, Peter Sellers, Margaret Leighton
Director: John Guillermin
Certificate:
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General Fitzjohn (Peter Sellers), a lecherous old military man who daily suffers the nagging of his bedridden wife (Margaret Leighton), fondly remembers the time he spent with his young mistress Ghislaine (Dany Robin). After many years, Ghislaine then arrives on his doorstep determined to ..read more »
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from 120 members
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Very Important Person
(1961)
Starring: James Robertson Justice, Godfrey Winn, Stanley Baxter
Director: Ken Annakin
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Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he ..read more »
66%
from 231 members
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Make Mine Mink
(1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Francesca Annis
Director: John Boulting, Mari, Robert Asher
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When Dame Beatrice Appleby (Athene Seyler) receives a fur coat from her ex-jailbird maid Lily (Billie Whitelaw) she can't help but suspect that it was stolen. In order to set things right she gathers together a team of local misfits, headed by the eccentric Major Rayne (Terry-Thomas), and draws up ..read more »
66%
from 632 members
Currently unavailable
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School for Scoundrels
(1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Janette Scott
Director: John Boulting, Mari, Robert Asher
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Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is one of life's losers. Despised and disregarded at work, his prospective girlfriend April (Janette Scott) is whisked from under his nose by charming bounder Raymond Delauney (Terry-Thomas). In desperation, Henry enrols at Stephen Potter's (Alastair Sim) College of ..read more »
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from 1,545 member
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I'm All Right Jack
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Peter Sellers
Director: John Boulting
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This sequel to 'Private's Progress' takes a satirical look at trade unions and labour relations. Upon leaving the army, upper class twit Windrush (Ian Carmichael) takes a job in industry. Before long he has inadvertently started a national strike, which is subsequently mishandled by everyone involved.
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from 3,826 members
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The Captain's Table
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: June Jago, Joan Sims, Maurice Denham
Director: Jack Lee
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Comedy from director Jack Lee, in which Captain Ebbs (John Gregson) is delighted to win his dream job at the helm of a luxury liner, only to find that it is riddled with disastrous complications. Ebbs has been a lowly cargo-ship captain his entire life, but dreams of a more glamorous title. When he ..read more »
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from 45 members
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Too Many Crooks
(1958)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Francesca Annis
Director: John B, Mario Zampi, Robert Asher
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Fingers (George Cole) and his gang of crooks seem to be having a run of bad luck, as they keep botching one job after another. When they try to rob the wealthy philanderer Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they manage to get things wrong once again and end up kidnapping his wife Lucy (Brenda Da Banzie) ..read more »
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from 828 members
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Brothers In Law
(1957)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Francesca Annis
Director: John Boulting, Robe, Roy Boulting
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A Boulting Brothers comedy starring a host of British stars. Roger Thursby (Ian Carmichael) is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge (Miles Malleson) and tricky case, ..read more »
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from 334 members
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The Naked Truth
(1957)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Joan Sims, Irene Handl
Director: John Boulting, Mario Zampi, Mari
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Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) is an unscrupulous tabloid publisher who is making himself rich by approaching celebrated personages with scandalous stories and offering not to print them for a certain fee. But some of his targets have had enough of this and are drawing up plans to do away with the ..read more »
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Private's Progress
(1956)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Francesca Annis
Director: John Boulting, Mari, Robert Asher
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Upper class twit Windrush (Ian Carmichael) causes military mayhem when he joins up in the army. An inept soldier, he unwittingly becomes involved in his high-ranking uncle's (Dennis Price) scam to appropriate some rather valuable spoils of war - a haul of German jewels. A sequel followed with 'I'm ..read more »
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Police Dog
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Tim Turner, Joan Rice, Sandra Dorne
Director: Derek N. Twist
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1950s drama in which a police officer sets out in pursuit of the criminal who killed his partner with a police dog in tow. Frank Mason (Tim Turner) is devastated by the loss of his partner during a chase through Kentish Town. Unexpectedly, Frank is paired with a new police dog, Rex, an Alsation ..read more »
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The Pleasure Garden
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Lindsay Anderson, Hattie Jacques, hattie Jacques
Director: James Broughton
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Fifties bohemia translated onto the big screen in a plea for free expression by poet James Broughton, filmed in the ruins of Crystal Palace in South London. Hattie Jacques and Lindsay Anderson play a couple whose public displays of affection incur the wrath of the Minister of Public Behaviour (John ..read more »
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from 47 members
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Charles Dickens Collection
(8 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Michael Hordern, Eric Porter, John Mills
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Eight BBC television adaptations of the classic novels of Charles Dickens. In 'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1994), old Mr Chuzzlewit (Paul Scofield) is on his death bed, and surrounded by his money-hungry family jostling for a position in his will. In 'Oliver Twist' (1985), Ben Rodska plays the orphan who ..read more »
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from 2,657 members
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Follow A Star
on DVD
Starring: Norman Wisdom, June Laverick, Jerry Desmonde
Director: Robert Asher
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Norman Wisdom plays a shop worker (imaginatively also named Norman, as indeed is every character he has ever portrayed) who dreams of becoming a famous singer. His attempts are, of course, disastrous, until he is encouraged by music teacher Miss Dobson, and a crippled girl named Judy.
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