Davy Morgan (Harry Secombe) is the most important (and most talented) member of a third-rate family knockabout music-hall comedy act called The Mad Morgans who tour the British variety halls. The other members depend on Davy completely.
Possessed of a superb tenor voice, Davy finally receives an invitation to try out for a Covent Garden Opera, but he doesn’t want to break up the act and sacrifices his own ambition.
It’s a silly, simple film from Ealing which was meant as a star vehicle for Secombe, and while he certainly single-handedly saves the film from tedium, it was not a box office success.
Davy Morgan
Harry Secombe George
Ron Randell Uncle Pat
George Relph Gwen
Susan Shaw Eric
Bill Owen Tim
Peter Frampton Sir Giles
Alexander Knox Joanna
Adele Leigh Miss Carstairs
Isabel Dean Herbie
Kenneth Connor Henry
Charles Lamb Winkler
Arnold Marlé
Director
Michael Relph
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