While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...
Directed by Frank Launder
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Cast
Harry H. Corbett
Joey Boy Thompson
Stanley Baxter
Benny 'The Kid' Lindowski
Bill Fraser
Sergeant Major Dobbs
Reg Varney
Rabbit Malone
Lance Percival
Clarence Doubleday
John Harvey
Signals officer
Wanda Ventham
Italian Girl
Freddie Mills
Sergeant
Percy Herbert
Mad George Long
Moira Lister
Lady Thameridge
Derek Nimmo
Lt Hope
Thorley Walters
Col. Grant
Eric Pohlmann
Antonio
John Phillips
Insp. Morgan
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