Movie
Joey Boy
1965 · 88 min
A breezy, cheeky wartime caper that coasts on cockney banter and gentle service-comedy silliness rather than real stakes.
- Directed by
- Frank Launder
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Harry H. Corbett, Stanley Baxter, Bill Fraser
- Tagline
- On active Self-Service!
- Overview
- While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...
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- Directed by
- Frank Launder
- Genres
- Comedy
- Starring
- Harry H. Corbett, Stanley Baxter, Bill Fraser
