15.10.12

down among the z men (1952)

"don't go away please."
Professor Pure Heart (Michael Bentine) loses a top secret formula. Harry Jones (Harry Secombe), a store clerk, finds and attempts to return it, but whilst doing so he inadvertently enlists as a Z man, as do an international gang of crooks, who are also after the formula.
This represents another attempt to bring the Goon Show humour to the big screen. Unfortunately it falls between the anarchic humour of the goons and the rather simplistic slapstick humour popularised by the likes of Norman Wisdom, and satisfies neither camp.

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