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Too Many Crooks

Too Many Crooks

7,4 /10 (23 Votes)
1959 EN 87 min

Overview

Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.

Release date

08/03/1959

Votes

23

Popularity

0.3

Robbery With Laughter! Crime Was Simple To Them - They Were All Simple Minded!

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

87 min

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John Chard

John Chard

2014-09-06

⭐ 7

The house of Ealing delivers another rewarding comedy. A group of bumbling crooks led by the accident prone Fingers, fail in their attempt to rob mega rich miser Billy Gordon, they reconvene to hatch a plan where they will kidnap Gordon's daughter and hold her to ransom. But instead of kidnapping the pretty daughter they mistakingly in the night snatch the wife Lucy, who upon finding out that Billy is not prepared to pay to get her back, plots her revenge with the aid of her captors. That this film is above average is purely down to its fine cast list, carry on stalwarts Sid James & Bern…

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