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18/08/1959 Comedy 1h 45m
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Three of England's Top Comedians...One Big Laugh Riot!

Overview

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

  1. John Boulting

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Peter Sellers

    Fred Kite / Sir John Kennaway

  2. Ian Carmichael

    Stanley Windrush

  3. Terry-Thomas

    Major Hitchcock

  4. Richard Attenborough

    Sidney De Vere Cox

  5. Dennis Price

    Bertram Tracepurcel

  6. Margaret Rutherford

    Aunt Dolly

  7. Irene Handl

    Mrs. Kite

  8. Liz Fraser

    Cynthia Kite

  9. Miles Malleson

    Windrush Sr., Stanley's father

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-04-25
Poor old "Windrush" (Ian Carmichael) finds himself cleverly manipulated by his uncle "Tracepurcel" (Dennis Price) into taking a job at the family factory. Not in the management, you understand, but on the shop floor. After about ten seconds, his arrival has provoked the animosity of shop steward "Kite" (Peter Sellers) who can't quite decide whether he is annoyed that this man has been employed without union consultation or because he might be summarily fired because they complain to the management (Terry-Thomas). To strike or not to strike? Well that's really the gist of this entertaining sati...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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