Crooks In Cloisters [DVD] [1964]

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It works to a certain extent – but really you need to be content to make do with this style of humour and not much else. Babs Windsor is very much playing the dizzy blonde, but she's a very cheesecake pin-up style beauty. After a few initial setbacks, they slowly adjust to their new contemplative life of tending animals and crops, surviving the added tribulations of visits by a group of tourists and two of the real monks who had been forced to sell the monastery after falling on hard times, including Brother Lucius. To the accompaniment of ‘It’s a Sin’, she also crops up in a French maid’s outfit in ‘Nights in the Harem’, a saucy short flipping on a handcranked What the Butler Saw machine on the promenade.

Little Walt and his band of crooks comprised of Lorenzo, Squirts, Specs, Willy, and Walt's girlfriend Bikini, have just pulled off what has been coined by the media as the world's smallest train robbery, the reason for the moniker being that Superintendent Mungo, tipped to there being a potential robbery by someone, was able to reorganize the train beforehand. My Night at Mauds (1969) The narrator (Jean-Louis), a devout Catholic, moves to a provincial town and vows to marry Francoise, a pretty blond he notices at mass. From her bit part debut in The Belles of St Trinian’s (1954), Windsor’s bubbly blonde persona had made her a ready fit for screen comedy.I used to love this film as a kid, but some things are probably best left to memory and fond recollection. Hands Across the Table (1935) Hotel manicurist Regi Allen is a cynical golddigger who meets her match in Theodore 'Ted' Drew III. But Windsor finally got to show what she could do in EastEnders, where she demonstrated that she had been showbiz royalty all along.

After a gang of London thieves rob a train their leader Walter (Ronald Fraser) finds a place for them to hide out until the heat dies down. What's worse is that it was a subsistence farming operation meaning that they would have to raise farms animals, and grow fruits and vegetables, none of which any of these city slickers know how to do, but what is probably the greatest fish out of water situation being Bikini asked to be the cook, she not only being a female but not even knowing that chips are made with potatoes. The criminals doing a runner to the remote monastery are the honestly dishonest, ‘Daddy was a bank robber’, salt-of-the-earth, wouldn’t harm a fly - unless they had to types. There they must masquerade as monks while attempting to evade the notice of the authorities lest their true identities be revealed.Although the odd film cameo cropped up, the latter part of Cribbins’ career was centred on television.

After a slick credits sequence parodying the Great Train Robbery (with Barbara Windsor taking over as driver! D. (1966), Cribbins became the first actor to travel in the Tardis as two different characters when amateur astronomer Wilfred Mott shared granddaughter Donna Noble’s adventures in Doctor Who from 2007 to 2010. A crook (Ronald Fraser), his moll (Barbara Windsor) and his gang pose as monks in a deserted monastery off the British coast.

Years of Doing Just About Everything, Cribbins did serials, plays, sitcoms, quiz shows, soaps and The Avengers (twice).

They all follow a similar sort of pattern, the criminals are not particularly competent, finally hit upon a successful scheme and of course end up getting caught because 'crime never pays'. this surprisingly elaborate production in CinemaScope and Technicolor relocates of all places to Cornwall were it proves disconcertingly rambling and preachy (if you'll pardon the word)! Our online collections hold information on over 800,000 film titles – including television programmes, documentaries, newsreels, as well as educational and training films. On a grander scale, he was Job opposite Peter Cushing and Ursula Andress in Hammer’s retelling of H. Manages to get some smiles out of the set up but really it's a bit stretched with nowhere to go at the end.He also played various characters in I Know What I Like (1973), an infomercial sponsored by the Brewers of Britain.