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Too Many Crooks

Robbery With Laughter! Crime Was Simple To Them - They Were All Simple Minded!

7.2 / 10

87 minutes

1959-03-08

English

GB

Actors :

Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Bernard Bresslaw, Sid James, John Le Mesurier, Terry Scott, Brenda De Banzie, Vera Day, Joe Melia, Delphi Lawrence, Sydney Tafler, Rosalie Ashley, Nicholas Parsons, Vilma Ann Leslie, Edie Martin

Description

Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.

Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

5/16/2024, 3:22:08 PM

The house of Ealing delivers another rewarding comedy. A group of bumbling crooks led by the accident prone Fingers, fail in their attempt to rob mega rich miser Billy Gordon, they reconvene to hatch a plan where they will kidnap Gordon's daughter and hold her to ransom. But instead of kidnapping the pretty daughter they mistakingly in the night snatch the wife Lucy, who upon finding out that B...