Joey Boy (1965)

Synopsis: With longtime collaborator Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder was one of the bastions of British cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. But his brand of comedy had passed its sell-by date by the Swinging Sixties, as this unpardonably awful film (written and directed by Launder) demonstrates only too well.

Some of the period's top TV sitcom stars are left with egg on their faces, none more so than Harry H Corbett as the brains behind a gang of petty crooks who join the army to avoid prison. Never has Corbett's hangdog expression been worn with such justification as it is here.

Cast: Harry H Corbett, Stanley Baxter
Runtime: 87 min