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 Italian scam.
Charlie is sentenced to six months, and Reggie puts the money in a Swiss bank account for safekeeping. But 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 – a Kray-like gang of Soho hoods and the London branch of the Mafia family – 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
Related Posts
Mutiny On The Buses (1972) Stan (Reg Varney) announces that he is going to get married to his engaged sweetheart Susy (Janet Mahoney) in this…
Bone (1972) Larry Cohen's feature directing debut (he also wrote and produced it) is a delightful cocktail of sex, violence, black, black…
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) The sixth Bond movie saw a temporary change of leading man, with Sean Connery (the one true Bond) departing, and…
To Kill a Clown (1972) Young hippie couple Lily (Blythe Danner in her feature movie debut) and Timothy Frischer (Heath Lamberts) rent a secluded beach…
Operation Kid Brother (1967) It must have seemed a good idea at the time: Cast Sean Connery's younger brother, Neil, as himself in a…
On Golden Pond (1981) A film dealing with themes of old age, the approach of death and the lack of communication in family relationships, On…
Overboard (1987) The golden age of the screwball comedy might have been the 1930s, but for one all-too-brief moment in late 1987,…
Cowboys, The (1972) John Wayne plays Will Andersen, a 60-year-old cowboy who laments the passing of the "old" west when a man's handshake…
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 Italian scam.
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.
