While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...
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Harry H. Corbett as Joey Boy Thompson
Stanley Baxter as Benny 'The Kid' Lindowski
Bill Fraser as Sergeant Major Dobbs
Reg Varney as Rabbit Malone
Lance Percival as Clarence Doubleday
John Harvey as Signals officer
Wanda Ventham as Italian Girl
Freddie Mills as Sergeant
Percy Herbert as Mad George Long
Moira Lister as Lady Thameridge
Derek Nimmo as Lt Hope
Thorley Walters as Col. Grant
Eric Pohlmann as Antonio
John Phillips as Insp. Morgan
Edward Chapman as Tom Hobson
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