A line-up of stars from the Carry On fraternity get together for this vintage comedy about a group of music academy students who try to limit their expenses by sharing living costs and part-time work.
Leslie Phillips stars in this laboured but likeable Gerald Thomas comedy as Mervyn, a penniless music student whose talent for writing pop songs while drunk jeopardises his scholarship at a top classical academy, until gruff tutor and world-famous conductor Sir Benjamin Boyd (James Robertson-Justice) unexpectedly comes to his rescue.
These accomplished funnymen go through their usual paces with aplomb, but the film belongs to the delightful Esma Cannon as a deaf landlady, Kenneth Williams as a toffee-nosed swot with designs on a composing prize and Sid James as the disreputable music publisher behind Mervyn’s predicament.
Sir Benjamin Boyd
James Robertson-Justice Mervyn
Leslie Phillips Sid
Sidney James Malcolm
Paul Massie Harold
Kenneth Williams Morgan Rutherford
Eric Barker Miranda
Liz Fraser Jill
Jennifer Jayne Mrs Deevens
Esma Cannon Sir John
Geoffrey Keen Janet
Jill Ireland Harry
Lance Percival Mrs Bostwick
Joan Hickson Bass trombone player
Jim Dale
Director
Gerald Thomas
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