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Penny Points to Paradise is a British film of genre Comedy released in USA on 25 april 1951 with Harry Secombe
Penny Points to Paradise (1951)
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Add to a movie listPenny Points to Paradise is a 1951 comedy feature film. The film was the feature film debut of the stars of The Goon Show, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers.
The film was directed by Tony Young, who later went on to produce The Telegoons for BBC Television.
Synopsis
Secombe plays the part of Harry Flakers, a man who has a big win on the football pools. He and his friend Spike Donnelly (Milligan) decide to go to the same shabby seaside boarding house that they have always patronised for their summer holiday, but this year all the other guests (including two young women out to marry money, a dodgy investment advisor and a master forger and assistant) are intent on taking the fortune off them in one way or another.Actors
Harry Secombe
(Harry Flakers)
Alfred Marks
(Edward Haynes)
Peter Sellers
(The Major / Arnold Fringe)
Paddie O'Neil
(Christine Russell)
Spike Milligan
(Spike Donnelly)
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