The Boulting Brothers strayed rather a long way from previous comic glories in this threadbare comedy with hand-me-down gags and such character names as Lenny the Dip, Nick the Bible and Dirty Bertie. However, if the material has seen better days (three crooks get out of prison and try to lay hands on the loot they went down for), there are compensations in the performances. Anton Rodgers is rather good in a role that looks as though it might have been written for Peter Sellers; Charlotte Rampling purrs silkily as the first of her many film bad girls, Cockney charactor actor Victor Maddern turns on a wondrous Irish accent as a crook called Anxious; and Eric Sykes will also please his admirers as a private eye with fallen arches. But all are trumped by Ian Bannen's marvellously wooden-headed army officer, who deservedly gets nearly all the best lines.

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