Release Date: 1955-07-18
Overview: Reservist Tommy Smart - who has made his fortune since the war selling army surplus - arrives at an army camp, with his chauffeur/valet, for two weeks' training. Bank manager Corporal Jones is in Tommy's squad. Sylvia, Jones' daughter, wishes to marry Lieutenant Robson, a National Service officer. Smart is under the orders of his old enemy Sergeant Thickpenny and R.S.M. Brittain; various parade ground antics ensue.
Rating: 5.2 / 10
Tommy Trinder
as Sally Briggs
Dora Bryan
as Hortense Tipp
Mary Parker
as Pvt. Sally Briggs
James Copeland
as Jim Campbell
Rolf Harris
as Pvt. Proudfoot
Maurice Elvey - Director
Edwin Astley - Music
Percy Godbold - Property Buyer
Not all service comedies are worth the effort. Army-surplus salesman Trinder is drafted, along with his chauffeur, and causes havoc in the barracks. He sings (unwise). Rolf is one of the troops (he pa...