This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
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Benny Hill Belinda Lee David Kossoff Garry Marsh Denis Shaw Ernest Thesiger George Margo Frederick Schiller Thorley Walters Stratford Johns Warwick Ashton Norah Blaney Charles Hawtrey Nicholas Phipps Peter Bull Gibb McLaughlin Ernest Jay Harold Scott Terence Alexander Irene Handl Arthur Lowe Glyn Houston Jeremy Hawk
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