Bumbling bureaucrat Cadogan Carlton-Browne (Terry-Thomas) is sent to the previously forgotten country of Gallardia to find out why the Americans and Soviets are suddenly interested in it. The new king (Ian Bannen) is in a struggle for power with Grand Duke Alexis (John Le Mesurier), and is not being aided by the illegal dealings of
Alan (John Gregson), an antique car fanatic, and his less enthusiastic wife, Wendy (Dinah Sheridan), drive his 1904 Darracq, named Genevieve, in the annual London to Brighton road rally. Also taking the trip is their equally fanatical friend Ambrose (Kenneth More) and his new girlfriend (Kay Kendall). Each car has its share of troubles along
A gang of train robbers, including Alphonse (Frankie Howerd), stash the loot in an abandoned building, that later becomes the new home of St. Trinians, thanks to a grant from the new minister of education (Raymond Huntley). While Headmistress Amber Spottiswood (Dora Bryan), Flash Harry (George Cole), and the girls of St. Trinian’s return to
Assassin Harry Hawkins (Alastair Sim), who specialized in eliminating insufferable blowhards, comes out of retirement to bump off egotistical Sir Gregory Upshott (Raymond Huntley). Unfortunately for Hawkins, a minor mistake has put incompetent vacuum-cleaner salesman, William Blake (George Cole), and sexy bride-to-be, Ann Vincent (Jill Adams), on his tail. They all head to The Green Man inn,
Due to a clerical error, idealistic Reverend John Smallwood (Peter Sellers) is made the vicar of Orbiston Parva instead of the more conventional man that Archdeacon Aspinall (Cecil Parker) had intended. Smallwood immediately upsets the status quo by insulting the wealthy, making a black dustman (Brock Peters) his assistant, and taking in a vagrant family.
In the Deep South, outlandish Professor G.H. Dorr (Tom Hanks) rents a room from formidable, Bible-thumping Marva Munson (Irma P. Hall). Using the cover of being an early Renaissance band, Dorr and his gang: explosives “expert” Garth Pancake (J.K. Simmons), tunnel man The General (Tzi Ma), muscleman Lump Hudson (Ryan Hurst), and street punk Gawain
Captain Mactaggart (Alex Mackenzie) is in danger of losing his broken-down “puffer” boat, but steps into a bit of luck when he is mistakenly hired to transport an expensive cargo for an American businessman (Paul Douglas). When the businessman discovers what happened, he flies to meet the boat himself, and ends up taking a trip
Aging Dame Beatrice Appleby (Athene Seyler), and her lodgers, a washed-up military officer (Terry-Thomas), a very butch etiquette instructor (Hattie Jacques), and a nervous china mender (Elspeth Duxbury), are caught in a meaningless routine until circumstances “compel” them to become fur thieves—for charity. The beautiful, ex-con housekeeper (Billie Whitelaw), the only one who knows anything about
Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) blackmails the high and mighty: £10,000 or their stories will appear in his scandal sheet. Four victims, insurance salesman Lord Mayley (Terry-Thomas), TV personality Wee Sonny MacGregor (Peter Sellers), author Flora Ransom (Peggy Mount), and model Melissa Right (Shirley Eaton), decide to fight back, and plan to eliminate Dennis with what
Widower Col. Sir Edgar Fraser (Alec Guinness) and his twenty-something son travel to Paris where each tries to match the other with a beautiful woman. But they fall for their own choices, setting up two May to December romances that are doomed to fail. Complicating matters, the younger girl already has a fervent admirer. Well, this is
A friendly and innocent country postman (Spike Milligan) is called to London where he easily surpasses his big city colleagues. Mistaken for a member of a powerful criminal organization by both the police and a lesser mob, he finds himself in the middle of a postal robbery while he romances a failed modern artist (Barbara
After burning down their school, the girls of St. Trinian’s are turned over to a “modern educator” (Cecil Parker) who is really being paid to kidnap the sixth form girls. It is up to Flash Harry (George Cole), police Sergeant Ruby Gates (Joyce Grenfell), and the entire fourth form, to rescue them. This third St.