Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
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Roger Livesey Honor Blackman Richard Burton Frederick Leister John Salew Colin Gordon Geoffrey Keen Cyril Smith Eliot Makeham Jack McNaughton Vida Hope Russell Waters Archie Duncan Arnold Ridley Gilbert Davis Harcourt Williams John Stamp Bryan Forbes Harold Goodwin Henrik Jacobsen Betty Shale Phil Tate
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