Down Among the Z Men
Down Among the Z Men is a 1952 black-and-white British comedy film starring the Goons: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine and Harry Secombe. The movie was filmed early in the Goons' career before many of the show's recurring characters were created, and the stars only play one character each: Eccles (Milligan), Colonel Bloodnok (Sellers), Osric Pureheart (Bentine) and Harry Jones (Secombe).
Plot
Harry Jones (Secombe) is a clerk in Mr Crab's general mercantile store and an amateur actor in community theatre, where he is currently playing a Scotland Yard inspector, "Batts of the Yard". When the absentminded Professor Osrick Pureheart (Bentine) leaves a secret military formula in the store, mayhem ensues as two suspicious secret agents (actually enemy spies), who have been shadowing the professor, question Harry regarding the professor, none of them realising that Harry now has the formula in his possession.
More details
author | Jimmy Grafton |
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director | Maclean Rogers |
editor | Peter Mayhew |
genre | comedy |
keywords | adjutant amateur actor atomic secrets elite unit guard mi5 scotland yard secret agent shadow z men z reserve |
musicBy | Jack Jordan |
producer | Edwin J. Fancey |
productionCompany | E.J. Fancey Productions |
publisher | New Realm Pictures |
theme | spy comedy |