Penny Points to Paradise (1951)

Directors

Tony Young

Cast

Alfred Marks, Harry Secombe, Paddie O'Neil, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan

The story

Harry Flakers has had a big win on the football pools. He and his friend Spike Donnelly decide to go to the same shabby seaside boarding house that they have always patronised for their summer holiday, but this year all the other guests, including two young women out to marry money, a dodgy investment advisor and a master forger and assistant, are intent on taking the fortune off them in one way or another. Ultimately the forgers manage to substitute fake five-pound notes for the real ones that Flakers keeps in his suitcase, but before they can abscond with the money one of the girls is given cash by Flakers to buy some cigarettes, and…

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