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    Ooh . . . You Are Awful (1972)

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    Charlie Tully (Dick Emery) and Reggie Peek (Ronald Fraser) are confidence tricksters who con a rich Italian family out of half a million pounds by pretending to arrange a meeting with the Royal family about marriage to Princess Anne.

    Arriving back at Heathrow Airport, Charlie can’t resist conning a couple of tourists out of £200 but is caught in the act while Reggie flees the country with the cash from their scam.

    Charlie is sentenced to six months and Reggie puts the money in a Swiss bank account for safekeeping. Before Reggie can tell Charlie the account details, he is killed by the mafia, called in by the Italians they swindled.

    It turns out that womanising Reggie has tattooed parts of the account number on the bottoms of four girls he slept with in the past few months, so Charlie sets off to find them.

    This then provides the opportunity for Emery to wheel out some of his famous characters (including Mandy and Lampwick) in a romp heavily laden with smut and innuendo. Meanwhile, Charlie is pursued by two criminal gangs in a confusing but largely inconsequential plot.

    While the early 70s British obsession with cinematic spin-offs from popular comedy television series’ was largely unsuccessful (what was funny in the living room rarely translated well to the big screen), Ooh . . . You Are Awful is actually a good film. Instead of throwing together a limp framework of sketches and sight-gags, screenplay writers John Warren and John Singer constructed a really tight plot and storyline.

    The film was released in the US as Get Charlie Tully.

    Charlie Tully
    Dick Emery
    Sid Sabbath
    Derren Nesbitt
    Reggie Campbell Peek
    Ronald Fraser
    Libby Niven
    Pat Coombs
    Arnold Van Cleef
    William Franklyn
    Jo Mason
    Cheryl Kennedy
    Warder Burke
    Norman Bird
    Vivian
    Roland Curram
    Liza Missenden Green
    Liza Goddard
    Lady Missenden Green
    Ambrosine Phillpotts
    Funeral Director
    Brian Oulton
    Signor Vittorio Ferrucci
    Steve Plytas
    Emilio Ferrucci
    Louis Negin
    Don Luigi
    Henry Gilbert
    Dino
    Anthony Stamboulieh
    Carlo
    Guido Adorni
    Capo Mafioso
    Stefan Gryff
    Mancini
    John Louis Mansi
    Patsy
    Julie Crosthwaite
    Jane
    Anna Gilchrist

    Director
    Cliff Owen

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