Full cast list:
Sid James as Vic Flange
Kenneth Williams as Stuart Farquhar
Charles Hawtrey as Eustace Tuttle
Joan Sims as Cora Flange
Peter Butterworth as Pepe
Kenneth Connor as Stanley Blunt
Hattie Jacques as Floella
Bernard Bresslaw as Brother Bernard
Barbara Windsor as Sadie Tomkins
Jimmy Logan as Bert Conway
June Whitfield as Evelyn Blunt
Sally Geeson as Lily Maggs[1]
Carol Hawkins as Marge
Gail Grainger as Moira Plunkett
Ray Brooks as Georgio
John Clive as Robin Tweet
David Kernan as Nicholas Phipps
Patsy Rowlands as Miss Dobbs
Derek Francis as Brother Martin
Jack Douglas as Harry
Amelia Bayntun as Mrs Tuttle
Alan Curtis as Police Chief
Hugh Futcher as Jailer
Gertan Klauber as Postcard seller
Brian Osborne as Stall-holder
Olga Lowe as Madame Fifi
Crew and other details:
Screenplay – Talbot Rothwell
Music – Eric Rogers
Production Manager – Jack Swinburne
Art Director – Lionel Couch
Editor – Alfred Roome
Director of Photography – Alan Hume
Camera Operator – Jimmy Davis
Continuity – Joy Mercer
Assistant Director – David Bracknell
Sound Recordists – Taffy Haines & Ken Barker
Make-up – Geoffrey Rodway
Assistant Art Director – Bill Bennison
Set Dresser – Don Picton
Hairdresser – Stella Rivers
Costume Designer – Courtenay Elliott
Dubbing Editor – Peter Best
Assistant Editor – Jack Gardner
Titles – GSE Ltd
Processor – Rank Film Laboratories
Producer – Peter Rogers
Director – Gerald Thomas
Trivial Notes:
The film's opening credits also include 'Sun Tan Lo Tion' (sun tan lotion) as 'Technical Director'.
This was the last film featuring Charles Hawtrey.
The brothel keeper is played by Olga Lowe, one of the first actresses to work with Sid James when he arrived in the UK in 1946. Lowe was also the actress on stage with James on the night he died in Sunderland.
Interiors:
Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire
Exteriors:
High Street, Slough, Berkshire
Carpark 2 – Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire
Distributed The Rank Organisation
Release date December 1972
Running time 88 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget £225,000