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	'''''Penny Points to Paradise''''' is a 1951 comedy feature film.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7564f773\|title=Penny Points to Paradise (1951)\|publisher=}}</ref> The film was the feature film debut of the stars of ''[[The Goon Show]]'', [[Spike Milligan]], [[Harry Secombe]] and [[Peter Sellers]].		'''''Penny Points to Paradise''''' is a 1951 comedy feature film.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7564f773\|title=Penny Points to Paradise (1951)\|publisher=}}</ref> The film was the feature film debut of the stars of ''[[The Goon Show]]'', [[Spike Milligan]], [[Harry Secombe]] and [[Peter Sellers]].

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	==Plot==		==Plot==
	Secombe plays the part of Harry Flakers, a man who has a big win on the [[football pools]]. He and his friend Spike Donnelly (Milligan) decide to go to the same shabby seaside [[boarding house]] that they have always patronised for their summer holiday, but this year all the other guests (including two young women out to marry money, a dodgy investment advisor and a master forger and assistant) are intent on taking the fortune off them in one way or another.		Secombe plays the part of Harry Flakers, a man who has a big win on the [[w:football pools\|football pools]]. He and his friend Spike Donnelly (Milligan) decide to go to the same shabby seaside [[w:boarding house\|boarding house]] that they have always patronised for their summer holiday, but this year all the other guests (including two young women out to marry money, a dodgy investment advisor and a master forger and assistant) are intent on taking the fortune off them in one way or another.

	Ultimately the forgers manage to substitute fake five-pound notes for the real ones that Flakers keeps in his suitcase, but before they can abscond with the money one of the girls is given cash by Flakers to buy some cigarettes, and accused of passing false currency when the forgery is detected. A grand chase follows with half the characters pursuing the other half through a [[waxwork museum]] in which the true crooks have taken refuge. Justice is served when the chief forger boasts of his crime in front of what he thinks are two waxwork policemen, but who turn out to be real members of the force.		Ultimately the forgers manage to substitute fake five-pound notes for the real ones that Flakers keeps in his suitcase, but before they can abscond with the money one of the girls is given cash by Flakers to buy some cigarettes, and accused of passing false currency when the forgery is detected. A grand chase follows with half the characters pursuing the other half through a [[w:waxwork museum\|waxwork museum]] in which the true crooks have taken refuge. Justice is served when the chief forger boasts of his crime in front of what he thinks are two waxwork policemen, but who turn out to be real members of the force.

	In the final scenes Harry and Spike marry the two women.		In the final scenes Harry and Spike marry the two women.

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	'''''Penny Points to Paradise''''' is a 1951 comedy feature film.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7564f773\|title=Penny Points to Paradise (1951)\|publisher=}}</ref> The film was the feature film debut of the stars of ''[[The Goon Show]]'', [[Spike Milligan]], [[Harry Secombe]] and [[Peter Sellers]].		'''''Penny Points to Paradise''''' is a 1951 comedy feature film.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7564f773\|title=Penny Points to Paradise (1951)\|publisher=}}</ref> The film was the feature film debut of the stars of ''[[The Goon Show]]'', [[Spike Milligan]], [[Harry Secombe]] and [[Peter Sellers]].

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{{Infobox film
| name = Penny Points to Paradise
| image = Penny_Points_to_Paradise_(1951_film).jpg
| caption =
| director = [[Tony Young (director)|Tony Young]]
| producer = Alan Cullimore
| writer = John Ormonde
| starring = [[Harry Secombe]] [[Alfred Marks]] [[Peter Sellers]] [[Paddie O'Neil]] [[Spike Milligan]]
| music = Jack Jordan Spike Milligan
| cinematography = Bert Mason
| editing = [[Harry Booth]]
| distributor = [[Adelphi Films]]
| released = {{start date|df=yes|1951}},{{start date|df=yes|1960}}
| runtime = 77 min (55 min: 1960 re-release)
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''Penny Points to Paradise''''' is a 1951 comedy feature film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7564f773|title=Penny Points to Paradise (1951)|publisher=}}</ref> The film was the feature film debut of the stars of ''[[The Goon Show]]'', [[Spike Milligan]], [[Harry Secombe]] and [[Peter Sellers]].

The film was directed by [[Tony Young (director)|Tony Young]], who later produced ''[[The Telegoons]]'' for [[BBC Television]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://roxburgh.org/telegoons/Bios/Bio_TY.htm|title=Biography of Tony Young|website=roxburgh.org}}</ref>

==Plot==
Secombe plays the part of Harry Flakers, a man who has a big win on the [[football pools]]. He and his friend Spike Donnelly (Milligan) decide to go to the same shabby seaside [[boarding house]] that they have always patronised for their summer holiday, but this year all the other guests (including two young women out to marry money, a dodgy investment advisor and a master forger and assistant) are intent on taking the fortune off them in one way or another.

Ultimately the forgers manage to substitute fake five-pound notes for the real ones that Flakers keeps in his suitcase, but before they can abscond with the money one of the girls is given cash by Flakers to buy some cigarettes, and accused of passing false currency when the forgery is detected. A grand chase follows with half the characters pursuing the other half through a [[waxwork museum]] in which the true crooks have taken refuge. Justice is served when the chief forger boasts of his crime in front of what he thinks are two waxwork policemen, but who turn out to be real members of the force.

In the final scenes Harry and Spike marry the two women.

There are sequences featuring a night out at the theatre where a stage hypnotist mesmerises Flakers and the girl Christine into performing an operatic duet, he singing soprano and she baritone, and a scene in which Harry Secombe wordlessly mimes out an entire heart operation being carried out by a nervous surgeon.

==Cast==
* [[Harry Secombe]] as Harry Flakers
* [[Alfred Marks]] as Edward Haynes
* [[Peter Sellers]] as The Major / Arnold Fringe
* [[Paddie O'Neil]] as Christine Russell
* [[Spike Milligan]] as Spike Donnelly
* [[Bill Kerr]] as Digger Graves
* [[Freddie Frinton]] as Drunk
* Vicki Page as Sheila Gilroy
* Joe Linnane as Policeman
* [[Sam Kydd]] as Porter / Taxi Driver / Newsvendor

==Revival==
According to Peter Sellers "a terrifyingly bad film", the film was not profitable on initial release and was eventually re-issued for distribution abroad in 1960 as a cut-down 55-minute version under the title "Penny Points".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1400399/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Penny Points to Paradise (1951)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}}</ref> Many sections were removed, and some additional unrelated material was incorporated from a short comedy entitled "[[Let's Go Crazy (film)|Let's Go Crazy]]" which had also featured Sellers. A print of this re-issue survived in the [[National Film and Sound Archive]], Australia.

A [[16 mm]] copy of "Penny Points to Paradise" was discovered in 2006 in the archives of Adelphi Films, and in 2007 a 64-minute partial restoration was screened at [[BFI Southbank]]. Funding from an American Peter Sellers fan made it possible to attempt a full restoration, using the 16mm print as a reference copy and working from the various incomplete 35 mm archive sources. The resulting 72-minute version was screened by the BFI in July 2009, with a later DVD release. Vic Pratt, BFI curator, described it as "a cheap and cheerful film that was filmed in just three weeks".<ref>Mark Brown [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/26/goons-film-sellers-milligan-secombe "Forgotten film of Goons restored by BFI"], ''The Guardian'', 26 July 2009</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0043913|title=Penny Points to Paradise}}
*{{cite web |work=BFI Film and TV Database|accessdate=3 August 2009 |title=Penny Points to Paradise |publisher=British Film Institute |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/311693?view-release|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016175833/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/311693?view-release|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 October 2012}}
*{{Screenonline title|1400399}}
* {{Amg movie|105855|Penny Points to Paradise}}
*[http://www.thegoonshow.net/film_tv_movies.asp The Goons films] at The Goon Show website
*[http://telegoons.org/history_4_running_jumping.htm The Goons films] at The Telegoons website

{{Goons}}

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