Too Many Crooks
Mar 08 1959
•1h 27m
•Comedy
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.
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Terry-Thomas
Billy Gordon
George Cole
Fingers
Bernard Bresslaw
Snowdrop
Sid James
Sid
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