The Big Money

Norman Wisdom. His place is taken by Ian Carmichael. I can partly see why he might have been cast - the character here is, although a thief, a hapless and rather naive one - a frequent Ian Carmichael character who struggled to get the girl. But after a promising start, the hokum into which the film descends at the end is much more Normam Wisdom. He always played a hapless clumsy character who often pursued - and ended receiving the attention and love of an impossibly beautiful dream girl (here played by Belinda Lee.

The film would been better with Norman Wisdom providing not just haplessness but also his renowned comedy skills which always uplifted hokum.

Robert Helpman is rather good as the gang leader/fake clergyman Apart from this the colour is excellent (Technicolor) and it does provide a glimpse of 1956 hotel extreme luxury - at least the room decor and bathroom, as well as a vision of an up-market night club. An excellent cast of familiar character actors many of whom had starred in other films, it at least held the interest throughout and was agreeable to watch.