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Synopsis: Gerald Otley, a petty thief and garbage rummager, wakes up one morning, after a drunken night on the town, and finds that he is wanted by the police for murder. And that is only the ...
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Dick Clement
Production: Columbia Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.3
M
Year:
1969
91 min
52 Views


of my conversation with

"Sir" Alec Hadrian this afternoon.

Notice the way I cleverly engineer

the conversation to incriminate him.

Just winding it back,

...morning, Raymond. Yes, the answer is

"American-style smoked haddock."

you want one pound...

I forgot to press 'record'.

To receive the honour of knighthood,

Sir Alec Hadrian.

Just for the record,

we do believe you.

Well, who's worried?

The fate of the nation's

no concern of us "little people".

You'll probably see he's been retired

with a thrombosis in six months.

They'll never believe this

in the pub, you know.

So that's it, is it?

I mean, I won't be called upon to smash

some Chinese opium gang on Monday, will I?

Not you, Gerry.

They've already closed your file.

Great!

So now I'm back to reality.

Dull, grey and lovely.

Hey, I owe you a dinner.

I mean, I can see you again, can't I?

Don't be silly, love.

What have you been up to, then?

Oh, nothing much.

I just got back to square one.

Well, at least you've got

a roof over your head now.

- No, I haven't.

- Yes, you have.

Albert's gone up North for two weeks.

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Dick Clement

Dick Clement, OBE (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais. They are most famous for television series including The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge, Lovejoy and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. more…

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