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Down Among the Z Men

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5.1/10 • 6

1952-10-011h 11m

Comedy

The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.

Directors
Maclean Rogers

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Peter Sellers

    Peter Sellers

    Major Bloodnok

  2. Spike Milligan

    Spike Milligan

    Pvt. Eccles

  3. Harry Secombe

    Harry Secombe

    Harry Jones

  4. Michael Bentine

    Michael Bentine

    Prof. Osrick Pureheart

  5. Robert Cawdron

    Robert Cawdron

    Sergeant Bullshine

  6. Graham Stark

    Graham Stark

    Spider

  7. Miriam Karlin

    Miriam Karlin

    Woman in Shop

  8. Sidney Vivian

    Sidney Vivian

    Landlord

  9. Howell Evans

    Howell Evans

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CinemaSerf

Sep 9, 2022

4/10

I was never a great fan of any of the "Goons" so approached this with quite a bit of trepidation. Sadly, it is all rather silly and presented in such a stilted fashion as to appear to have been rehearsed to within an inch of it's life - totally devoid of anything that looked convincingly genuine or spontaneous. There is a storyline involving a rather flaky professor who leaves a top secret formula in a grocer's shop. When he attempts to return it, he is mistaken for one of the "Z" (British army reservists) men, dragooned into the army and soon exposed to criminals who are also after this scientific boon. Curiously enough, there are one or two quite redeeming musical performances dotted throughout this featuring Carole Carr and Harry Secombe; but the performances of his fellow goons - Messrs. Bentine, Sellars and Milligan - really have suffered badly from the ravages of time, so much as to make this pretty unwatchable to all but real "Goonies".

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
--
Revenue
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Keywords
madcap comedy