Featuring a legendary comedy line-up, Joey Boy charts the wartime misadventures of a gang of London spivs who decide that a tour of duty with the Army is preferable to another stint at His Majesty’s pleasure.
While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, ‘Joey Boy’ Thompson (Harry H. Corbett) has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline.
But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service or face another stint inside.
Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it.
Directed and co-written by Frank Launder and co-produced by his long-term St Trinians collaborators Sidney and Leslie Gilliat.
Joey Boy Thompson
Harry H. Corbett ‘Benny the Kid’ Lindowski
Stanley Baxter Sergeant Dobbs
Bill Fraser ‘Mad George’ Long
Percy Herbert Clarence Doubleday
Lance Percival ‘Rabbit’ Malone
Reg Varney Lady Thameridge
Moira Lister Lieutenant Hope
Derek Nimmo Brigadier Chapman
John Arnatt Inspector Morgan
John Phillips Sir John Averycorn
Lloyd Lamble Tom Hobson
Edward Chapman Angie
Toni Palmer Gina
Vicki Woolf Anna
Stephanie Beaumont Rebecca
Anna Gilchrist
