Rank turned Norman Wisdom into a film star and tried to do the same with Frankie Howerd. It didn't quite work, Howerd's particular magic doesn't come across, at least not to me. (I did like him in Up Pompeii).
The story is serviceable enough, being about a man at the greyhounds who gets involved with crooks.
It just sort of went on and one. I'm resistant to this Rank comedy. In black and white too. Stanley holloway is in it, not a big part.
There needed to be some romance maybe, although there is a pretty girl, Susan Beaumont. Tony Wright plays a gangster - he does have an impressive look with that blonde hair but his voice is badly dubbed.
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