Recently-qualified junior barrister Tony Stevens (Michael Craig) is annoyed when he finds his firm is taking on the boss’s niece, Frances Pilbright (Mary Peach).
The two youngsters soon find themselves in court on opposite sides in a case on the restitution of conjugal rights where the plaintiff, Gladys Worthing (Brenda de Banzie) and the defendant Sidney Pudney (Ron Moody), seem to both have things to hide.
Gladys claims to have been married to Sidney during the war before a bomb explosion gave her instant amnesia, and she forgot all about her clownish, crooked husband. Now recovered, Gladys has tracked him down, but he claims not to know her – perhaps due to the presence of his glamorous – if somewhat sozzled – girlfriend (Liz Fraser).
The irascible and rather fearsome judge (James Robertson Justice) has little time for the goings-on, least of all the way the two young lawyers seem rather too keen to squabble with each other.
Tony Stevens
Michael Craig Frances Pilbright
Mary Peach Gladys Worthing/Pudney
Brenda de Banzie Mr Justice Haddon
James Robertson Justice Sir John Pilbright
Roland Culver Gloria Hoskins
Liz Fraser Sidney Pudney
Ron Moody George Lockwood
Jameson Clark Peebles
Charles Heslop Victor
Bill Kerr Sutcliffe
Nicholas Phipps Gale Tornado
Joan Sims Hubert Shannon
John Standing Exotic Dancers
Amanda Barrie
Judy Carne Gloria Lockwood
Barbara Ferris
Director
Ralph Thomas
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