Jon Penington

Movies

Plod
Producer
Based on Roger McGough's PC Plod poems, a series of quick comic sketches performed by The Scaffold.
Rhubarb
Producer
A Police Inspector and a vicar play a round of golf. The Inspector has a Constable help him to cheat, while the vicar has other ideas...
The Liquidator
Producer
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
The Shadow of the Cat
Producer
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
Expresso Bongo
Associate Producer
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
The Mouse That Roared
Associate Producer
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
The Crowning Touch
Producer
Several stories linked by a hat.
The Heart Within
Producer
This is one of David Hemming's earliest performances in the cinema: the star actor was just 15 when he portrayed a teenager who determines to clear a black friend on the run who is accused of murder.
At the Stroke of Nine
Screenplay
A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.
The Case of the Mukkinese Battle-Horn
Screenplay
Supposedly filmed in 'Schizophrenoscope', it concerns Inspector Quilt of Scotland Yard's attempts to retrieve a 'Mukkinese Battlehorn' stolen from a London museum. Along the way he meets characters not dissimilar to Eccles, Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister from The Goon Show. This attempt to adapt Goon humour to the big screen was written by Harry Booth, Jon Penington and regular Goon show co-writer Larry Stephens. It was then heavily rewritten on the filmset by Sellers and Milligan.