When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.
Murdoch Troon es un sencillo funcionario que está locamente enamorado de Claire, hija de un prestigioso millonario. Con la intención de impresionar al padre de su querida, Murdoch aprenderá a conducir un antiguo coche deportivo.
Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.
Norman Puckle (Norman Wisdom), es vendedor, de bote en bote, de la tienda Dalton’s. Es un tipo bien intencionado pero algo torpe, y luego de ser rechazado por su enamorada Marlene, intenta suicidarse pero falla en todos sus intentos. Salvado, por un ofical de la marina, de caer desde un acantilado (su último intento de abandonar este mundo), su salvador lo convence para que ingrese a la armada prometiéndole que podrá tener muy cerca a numerosas chicas… pero antes tendrá muy cerca un buen número de líos.
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Norman Pitkin trabaja para el Sr. Grimsdale en el ayuntamiento, pero una serie de circunstancias hacen que Norman acabe transformado en el General Schreiber y sea enviado a Francia.
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.
